Santa's Visit

Tonight we had a very special treat.....SANTA came and visited us!!!! Sam and Ash were so excited. They both took turns on Santa's lap. Ash remembered what she wanted but Sam couldn't think of anything. Santa said to write it down and have Mom mail it to the north pole. After Santa left Sam was going crazy. He was so excited that he came again this year. He said he must be really special to have Santa come again this year to his house.

Christmas Cookies

As we do every year our family gathers around the table and decorates cookies. So last night was the night. Some are really good....some are kind of scary. Some....who knows. Enjoy!

Samuel 5th Birthday

Our little boy is growing up. Not only is he in kindergarten this year, but turned 5. He had a few of his freinds and many of his family come out and enjoy the fun at Ballocity. A great time was had by all. No one cried or got hurt either. :)

Brandon Cross Country

We are soon coming to an end of Brandon's senior year of Cross Country and here I am finally putting up a post. Brandon has done well this year. Had to miss a couple of races do to illness, but great effort and enjoyed watching him this year. We have our last run on Saturday the 17th of October. Hopefully the weather holds out for us all. The first pictures you see are from the Blue/Gold run. This is where they run for times which coach uses to place them on varsity or junior varsity.

Here is another race in Grand Island.

Shrine Bowl 2009

Brandon was invited to play his trumpet in the Shrine parade and half time of the Shrine Bowl. The Shrine bowl is where the best of the best Seniors go and basically play an all star game of football. This is a benefit game and all proceeds go to help out the Shriner's Hospital. http://www.shrinershq.org/ Well this also applies to the band except you can't be a senior. Brandon went down on Tuesday and they started practice right away. They practiced till 10:30 every night and put together a half time performance. There was a parade in Lincoln on Saturday morning that they marched in and then the Shine bowl that night. It was very impressive, with the little time they had the band sounded GREAT! They put together a short reutine for the half time show and it was very good. Brandon as you will see in one of the pictures even made it on the big screen and TV since it was televised.

Wendy and I went down on Saturday morning for the parade and then hung out at Grammy's. Went swimming and played some.

Father's Day 2009

Father's Day was a GREAT day!!!! I had the best of both worlds. I got to spend it with my Dad and with my Son and wife. Dad was camp host up at Calamus Lake by Burwell so we decided to go up and spend the day with him. Wendy made some great meals and we got to spend some time in Dad's new trailer. What a beautiful trailer. We fished, hung out and just had a great day. I got to be the master angler this day. I

caught 7 trout. Sam did catch the first one though. We met some nice people there and gave all the fish to them since we were having steak that night. :)

Dad's/Grandpa's Birthday

We were lucky enough to be able to have Dad come out and spend his birthday with us. We didn't do a lot but just enjoyed the day. We did go do some fishing at Cottonmill lake here in Kearney. It was fun. Sam was the fisherman of the day catching the most, but Wendy caught the biggest. Then we had some cake to finish it off. It was a great day for all of us. We really enjoy our time with Dad / Grandpa.