Labor Day 2010 (sorry it took me so long to get these posted)

It has been a crazy September already and it only is the 12th...or is it the 13th? Shoot I can't keep up anymore. I finally uploaded my pictures from Labor Day Weekend up at Camp Schendel. We had a great time celebrating family and we squeezed in Eli's 6th birthday party. Together Dawn and Sherrie made the Toy Story 3 party one that will last go down in the history books for Eli. See pictures below.

My contribution to the big weekend was a modified kid version of Minute to Win it! The kids had a blast and everyone was a winner. Check out "Chocolate Unicorn" (stack 4 cookies on your forehead in one minute). We played about 5 or six games ranging from Junk in the Trunk to Mix 'N Match. Lots of laughs and giggles for everyone.




Whew, as you can see we had a great time. Sunday I got hit with the stomach bug and the party quickly ended. Ugh! After about 4-5 days I finally felt back to "normal'. I had to get better b/c we had great tickets to the Iowa vs. Iowa State game this weekend. Leaving the house at 9 am seemed a bit crazy for a 2:30 pm game but apparently you "have" to tailgate at these things. Who knew? We rode the Hawkeye Express into the game, hit the Modern tailgate, visited some co-workers, ran into long lost friends and then back to Modern...believe it or not our 5+ hours of tailgating was fun filled. Once the game started the energy in the stadium was amazing. It might have been the fact that we were in row 29! Sweet tickets! After 11 hours of Hawkeye fever we crashed. It was a great date with my hubby. Maybe we could do this again in January???

Now the only reason we were able to visit the game was because we have two amazing Grandma/Mammie's. Grandma took the first shift entertaining/feeding/supervising the kids/dog. Mammie came in for the 2nd shift so we could grab a bite to eat. Our parents are the best and we don't say thank you enough - so "thank you, we love you and appreciate all you do for our family". Happy Grandparent's Day!

One final thought of the night...Mollie, our dog has been diagnosed with seasonal allergies. Seriously? I thought all the scratching at night was a vibrating bed - - guess not.