Winter Wonderland

Wanted to post these pictures to give those of you who don't live in the area an idea of how much snow we've had already this year. It's snowed at least a foot in the last two days. It's heavy, wet snow. Perfect for making snowman, but we haven't done that yet. If we do, we'll be sure to post more pictures.

Pumpkins

Kevin & I went to a friends 4th Annual Pumpkin Carving Party. Here are our pumpkins and a few more. Kevin carved the haunted house & I did the skull head.

Whistler Canada

Here are a couple of photos from our trip to Seattle & Whistler in August & September. Check out the size of the sand trap Kevin found himself in below! We golfed 4 different courses in Whistler, had perfect weather & as you can see the scenery is stunning. In the picture at the bottom we are eating at a restaurant called the Rimrock. The food was so spectacular we went back a second time the following night. The photo above was taken at Carla's house.

22nd Wedding Anniversary

This photo was taken a couple of weekends ago. We met up with Eva & Andy at the Cheesecake Factory to celebrate their 22nd wedding anniversary. Way to go guys!

Wild Turkey & Snow

Just thought I'd post a picture that shows the MN weather. It's been a cold October. On this particular day I was home in the kitchen and something caught my eye in the back yard. When I took a closer look it was a wild turnkey running around. So I snapped this photo. FYI - all the snow from this day has since melted. We almost reached 50 degrees today!

Renaissance Festival - Sep 2008

Some friends of ours, Charles & Stephanie were in the cities last Fall (they live in Washington state so we only see them about once a year). Here are some fun pictures Charles just sent within the last week or two. Stephanie grew up in Brazil so we took them to a Brazilian churrascaria steakhouse called Fogo de Chao and afterwards went to a dueling piano bar called the Shout House. The following day, we suggested they go to the Renaissance Festival and they invited us along so we hung out at the festival for the day. It was a really fun visit. Charles was on a 4 day pass from Ft. McCoy, WI where he was getting ready to ship out to Iraq and Stephanie had flown in to see him before he left. I believe Charles' deployment is over either this month or next.

Epoxy Paint

Kevin put Dad to work over this past 4th of July weekend helping to paint the garage floor using an epoxy paint kit. Half of the garage is done and the other half is prepped and just needs to be painted. Kevin & I will finish the project at some point this week. The finished floor looks great - not sure the photo here does it justice.