Extreme Makeover – Home Edition

The house down the road (a rural gravel road) from my BILand SIL’s farm is being rebuilt for the TV show Extreme Makeover Home Edition!!!  The family was “woke up” yesterday morning.  This house used to be in Al’s family, and in fact, Al’s dad was born in the house.  No one in the family [...]

I’ve Been Tagged!

My friend Jess (who’s birthday is tomorrow…HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!) tagged me…let’s give this a shot!
Ten years ago:
I was getting ready to celebrate my first wedding anniversary…working at the nursing home, I don’t know what else.
Five things on today’s to-do list: (I’m going to do tomorrow’s list, since it is almost bedtime now)
1. Clean house
2. [...]

Chalkfest

There are many reasons why I like living in Wausau…one of the main ones is that there are so many family activities, many of which are free or really cheap to do. This weekend (in addition to the Balloon Rally and Glow…which coincidentally, it was too windy last night for it again) is Chalkfest. [...]

Balloon Glow???

Andrew and I attempted to go to the Balloon glow last night downtown. Unfortunately, it was too windy for the pilots to put up the balloons, but they did set up their baskets and flames for everyone. Here is Andrew checking out one of the baskets.

Now Andrew is seeing what it like from [...]

Road Construction SUCKS!

Especially when it is happening in your own driveway!!  Here is what we are watching today:

There was a drain at the end of our driveway and when the road was built it wasn’t done properly so the road was starting to cave in. Yikes!
Here is a pic the 4 yr old neighbor boy watching [...]

Swimming Lessons

Andrew started swimming lessons tonight at the Y.  There are 3 other boys in his class…and Andrew was the only one who wore a floaty belt around his waist, the other boys all tried swimming on their own.  He also wouldn’t put his face in the water.  He was just very hesitant to do anything…the [...]

Making Ice Cream

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Originally uploaded by kimandal

Tonight, to celebrate the end of the holiday weekend, we made homemade ice cream. A couple of years ago we bought the Wilton ice cream maker and it works surprisingly well. Andrew (and me, when he got bored with it) just had turn the crank every 2 minutes for about [...]

Happy 4th of July

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Originally uploaded by kimandal

Happy Independence Day everyone!! We broke out the sparklers a little early so Al could send a card to his clients, so I share this with you. We are planning on going to fireworks tonight.
Tomorrow we may go shopping in Appleton for the day, and Andrew is [...]

A flashback to childhood

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Originally uploaded by kimandal

Growing up, we liked to play on the slip n slide on warm days…in the “old” days though, we didn’t have the “bumper” on the end so you would slide off onto the grass and would get grass burns. Now, to make everything safe, you have an inflatable bumper. For [...]

June 21-23

We spent the weekend at Grandma Barb’s house.  Saturday night for supper Carl, Joan, and Steve came over for a cookout supper.  Andrew had tons of fun showing everyone around “his farm”.
Sunday we spent on a riverboat on Lake Pepin with Al’s extended family.  It was a beautiful afternoon, and tons of fun.  Andrew spent [...]