NEW SHOES WOO HOO!

Aiden is clueless to the value of the treats he hold in his hands... Fuzzybutt looks on with pure hate in his eye... too scared to try to take the treats away. Very dramatic pic if you ask me :)

Handful of fur... ouch.

Making peace... kind of.

8 months old today!

Em, Jeremy, Kruz and Jordan came for a visit

Em and the fam came to GF last weekend for a softball tournament. It was really great to finally meet Jordan and see Kruz again. Jordan is only 5 days younger than Aiden so it was really fun to see them interact. They totally didn't understand what was going on, but they were super cute. I didn't get any pics of Kruz, which makes me sad because I was too focused on the babies.

Look at Jordans beautiful big brown eyes, he looks just like Kruz when he was that little. I hope we get together with them more often!

Aiden and his first friend, Jordan.

Jordan

Aiden and Jordan

"who is this?"

"I believe that is my toy, thank you"

right in the eye!

Alicia's b-day pics

I got the pics developed today. I just bought a crappy disposable to take to the bar. As you can see- we had fun. The bottom two are my favorite. These pics are mostly for Mom to see. Thought she'd get a kick out of it.

Calling it a night.

This should have been the last pic... ooops. This is me helping her to the car.

Starting out with a nice Cosmo....

When we lost count

Tequila sunrise... a new favorite

We find the "shot girl" she gives us these awesome jello shots.

Me and The Husband

We don't look like sisters...

Feeling the love

And things start getting silly

and more silly

Alicia and Ryan (now ex-boyfriend) and my thumb

Alicia telling everyone that she is 1-2

She really meant 2-1!

Alicia's Big Bad 21st BIRTHDAY BASH!

I don't have all the pics back from her BDay yet, but I do have this one. THis is the obnoxious (but very thoughtful and yummy) cake my Mom got for her. Its the brightest b-day cake EVER. We had a lot of fun weloming my sister into the bar scene. Surprisingly enough, she was not the least bit hung over the next day. Thats after countless mixed drinks and several (maybe 4 or 5) shots of Tequila. Not that its something to be proud of, but she can drink a sailor under the table. I've never seen such a thing! She held her own, thats for sure.

In Aiden News: We're pretty sure he's teething. He's waking up MANY times in the night and we've all had a rough couple of night this week, but hopefully all this fussing will result in a couplc of teeth.

A Restless Night

screw the crawling stage!

Not too sure about carrots

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Bath time at the Lake. Quality Grandma and Grandpa time!

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Back from Vacation

We're back! We had a blast on our vacation! We went to the Minneapolis/St. Paul and took in the Mall of America and the Pompii Exhibit at the science museum. We didn''t spend much at all at the mall of america, everything is so over priced you just can't justify it. but Aiden got some new outfits :) Kelsey joined us at the museum and we all met up with Andrew and Katie for dinner afterward at a cute Irish pub type place downtown. Then we spent two days in Duluth. That is when I started not feeling that well. I came down with a vicious head cold that I'm still battling, but we still had fun there too. We went to Glensheen Mantion and ate at the revolving restraunt, which was very fun. By Thursday night we were in Fargo and I wasn't feeling well at all. I bailed out of the concert and Kevin went with Tab and Derek. I stayed in the Hotel and rented "Wild Hogs" Which was a huge waste of my 9.99 plus tax. Do NOT pay to view that lame ass movie! I regret not going to the concert because Kevin, Derek, and Tab got to meet both of the bands and talked with them for a short while. Murder by Death and Reverand Horton Heat. Plus it was Ladies night at the Venue and ladies drank for free and the guys got 2 for 1's. Sounds like they had a blast, but I don't think I would have made it, I was in a NYQUIL Coma by 11pm.

Tonight is my sister's 21st, so We're just getting ready now. Tomorrow we get to go to DL and pick up Aiden. Man, Do I miss my little guy! I can't wait to see him! I guess its good that I got this cold while we were away, hopefully I won't pass it on to Aiden.

Downtown Duluth.

Harbor view.

The building on the right with the pointy roof is the train Depot

Glensheen

The Boat House

The Gardener's House

The man (Gardner for Glensheen) who lived here moved out just about 10 years ago, he lived in this house since he was
6 years old when his father was the gardner for Glensheen.

The Stables (now gift shop)

The lift bridge at Canal Park in Duluth

shut up, my hair ROCKS!

Everyone has a little captain in them, right?

The countdown begins....24 hours, and we'll be OFF

We have a busy week ahead of us... but a good busy. We're going on vacation. We're going to Minneapolis/St. Paul and Duluth. We have to change our planned route, for obvious reasons, but we're still very excited to go. I35W is the interstate you take to go from the Twin Cities to Duluth. I can't believe it collapsed. I've been obsessed with the news, and I can't believe how much worse it COULD have been if it wasn't under construction, or if the cars were moving instead of being bumper to bumper.... but we've all heard all the reports.... so I digress.

Tomorrow night we bring Aiden to Devils Lake and go out for Tab's birthday.
Saturday-we spend the night in Fargo, visit Amy and just hang.

Sunday we drive to Bloomington and do whatever when we get there.

Monday we go to Mall of America hopefully we can see Kelsey while we're around. Katie and Andrew are moving to the cities on Saturday, we're gonna try to see their new place too.

Tuesday we're going to St. Paul's science museum to take in the Pompii exhibit and then drive to Duluth, hopefully missing rush hour if we leave late enough.

Wednesday we're taking in all the touristy stuff in Duluth, like the peir on Superior and Glensheen's mansion. We're staying at the Raddison downtown with the rotating restaraunt on top.

Thursday we head back to Fargo and take in the Rev. Horton Heat concert.

Friday we'll be back in Grand Forks for my sister's 21st birthday! Saturday we pick up Aiden and Sunday we head back to GF. Its gonna be a busy week, but super fun. I haven't had a whole week of work off in a long time... since my maternaty leave I guess, but that wasn't very vacation like :)

Katie and Andrew

So here a just a few of the pics from Katie and Andrew's wedding.... I hope Katie doesn't mind, as they haven't even seen the pics yet :) But I was working on them, and decided to share a few of them that I was experimenting with in Photoshop for the hell of it.

Whats new with us, you ask? Well, unfortunately Kevin's been pretty sick for the past week. He has strep and toncilitis and a really bad flu. He threw up for like 2 days straight... yeah I know, yuck. Yesterday, I hurt my knee again... I called my mom and she offered to come pick Aiden up and take him home with her for a few days until our house is a little less contagious, poor thing catches EVERYTHING that goes around and strep is not something to play around with. So Aiden is 96 miles away at Grandma and Grandpa's and it feels so wierd with him not here. I feel restless and totally lazy. But the doc said I need to stay off my knee and rest. He also told me not to work for a week, but I just laughed at him for that one and asked what my other options were. but hopefully I'll be up and runnin' around next week.

Kevin has to be in a parade on Saturday. East Grand Forks is having their "Jubilee 2007" all week, and that is where Kevin's clinic is, so he's gonna do some PR... if he's feeling better by then.

So there's your update, not that anyone reads my blog anymore anyways... and if you do, then you should POST A COMMENT!

I was playing with filters with this pic.... cool or does it just look like its a messed up picture? It's the diffused glow filter.

Bath time!!

A new post, without pictures.. *GASP!*

So theres a lot of updating that needs to happen.

First thing, my sister is living with us now. She moved to Grand Forks, and works at the hotel with me too, which is cool. She's been a big help with Aiden too, we've had some time to go out for dinner and a movie. I'm really glad she decided to move here. :) Love to my lil' sis XOOXOOOOO

Aiden is sick. He's running a high temp of 103.2. Poor baby. We called Urgent care, not to bring him in, but to find out how high a temp has to get befre we should be concerned at his age, because everyone we asked didn't know. The doctor on call said 105. 105!! are you kidding me! people are declared brain dead at like 106!!! I knew he was okay at 102. I decided I was going to be concerned at 104. Screw tht doctor. I'm glad the tylonol has been able to control the fever. He has a little bit of a cough too, but he seems to just be really tired and uncomfortable. Kevin and I are getting to be pros at this whole sick baby thing, so I'm sure we'll all be just fine. I'm sure its what Isabella had last week too and she got better after a couple of days.

Butto (or Jason as some may call him I guess :) ) is in Kuwait now for training before he goes to Iraq. Before he left I told him not to die. and we all had a laugh and he said he would try not to. But the reality of him actually BEING there now is scary. And joking about it before he left doesn't seem so funny anymore. I'm sure that humor is how many people over there deal with having to be there for so long. I hope he's okay and comes home okay. Good LUCK!!!

I'm doing the photography for Katie and Andrew's wedding on Saturday! I couldn't be more excited! Not only to do their pictures, but because of the dance after the ceremony! OOOO FUN! Congrats guys! I'm sure your day will go PERFECT!

I was looking through my old posts the other day. My Doug!! I can't believe how much things have changed! Even in the last year. Who would have thought... hmph.

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R-NO's Custom Metal Fabrication

Our friend Derek is going into his own business. The name speaks for itself, but he is a master welder... shut up Derek, you are a master welder. And he came to me with the exact idea and font, so I can not take credit for the design because he had it in his head I just tried my best to materialize his idea... I am however going to take credit for the kick ass cross hammers, they look awesome, thank you very much, I made it from an actual photo I took of his hammer. I rule. (as Doug would say) His las name is Arnaud... pronounced R-NO..... get it? okay good. Now we're on the same page here.

I just want to ad, that I opted to put the "custom metal fabrication" striking through the X hammers, but he didn't want to take attention away from the X itself because he'll use that has a logo by itself too. I like it this way the best I think.

Welcome to the world, William Miles!

Erik and Liz had their baby! Okay... more so Liz, but I'm sure she couldn't have done it without Erik :)

YAY!!!! I know I'm like a billion days late, but what can I say, I haven't looked at anyones blog in forever!

So isn't he ADORABLE!!! Congrats guys, he's a doll. Hope you're getting sleep and stuff! Ah, you know its all worth it! Hope Emily is doing well too, and adjusting into the Big sister rolL!