bacho party

had manda and johnny's bachelor/bachelorette party last night. we started at a mexican restuarant in oakdale right by where we play softball. the waiters are used to us and bought johnny a shot of tequila and also brought an apron, broom and dust pan out for him to practice with. they were great. johnny also had to wear a sombrero. we then moved to lee's liquor lounge in minneapolis to see one of manda's favorite musicians. i forget the guy's name but he played old music (40's & 50's) with a caribbean funk twist to it. the music was good. but the bar was really the great part of the night. lee's liquor lounge had bar tenders that had to have been my grandpa's age. it was so funny yet cool. they also had really really old cash registers. after lee's liquor lounge some of us went back to kunde's house for some more quality time spent with great people. it was a very fun night!

here's manda and johnny. we had a hawaiian theme so we all had lei's and manda had a lei veil. johnny also had a bow tie and chili pepper sunglasses. the below picture was using my color feature on my camera. here they are again using blue. they will be married next weekend, can't wait!!!
here's most of the girls that were out at the bar. meg, lin, me, manda, and kunde
here's the boys of the wedding party: dave, b.r., wes and johnny with his head dress on :)
here's us 4 softball girls with pink being pulled out.

blue angels

the navy blue angels were in town this weekend for a show and have been practicing overhead for a couple of days. they are so loud and so cool. their saturday show was cancelled due to weather, but today when we got home the show was just starting. some of the flights required them to fly directly over our house. it was so cool to hear them and even see some of them really close overhead. i wasn't able to get pictures of the ones that were really close due to the sheer speed of them but here are a couple of the formations. the first one is the blue angels in one of their 4 plane formations. they were a little ways away but still sooo cool. and the diamond shaped formation flew directly over us. this is a formation of fighter jets. six of them flew right around our house and back over to the chippewa valley airport. i'm so glad we got to see some of them so close up. i will definitely be attending a blue angels show someitme in the future! and i would love to pilot one or even ride in one, but not sure that will happen anytime soon....
the jets got a lot closer then these pictures show and below is a video of one that got pretty close. my camera was not able to pick up the extreme sound of them but it gives you a slight idea. it was such a cool experience to have them flying over and around for a couple days.

a visit to chaska

jodi is teaching in chaska this year and shaneo is moving up with her soon and personal training in lakeville. so shane was up in chaska this weekend along with his parents and my baby boz so since al didn't have to work on sunday we went up to visit them. went to heart breakers, a little but cute bar just down the road from jodi's house. it was a great bar with pool, darts, and many other video games in it. they also had bargo (their version of bingo) that was free and you could win drinks, shots, pizzas and money. the only person to win was al and he won a free pizza. their pizza was amazing!!! shane's parents are so great, candy and bobby L. we also got a giant, spouted pitcher of beer for pretty cheap. it was cool! eventually shane's parents took off back to new ulm and then jodi's roommate kristin and her friend katie came out and those girls were great fun too. it was a good night!!! here are the boys and their beer. these best buds got a little toasted but they are so funny together. they act like they're 5 when they are together and jodi and i can't not laugh at them.
we always have a great time with shane and jodi, and i'm a little sad that they'll both be in the cities now but hopefully we'll still get to see them a bunch!

mckenna's one

finally got up to see geri and mckenna and the dogs! it had been a while since i'd seen mckenna and she's changed and grown so much!! she's one now (as of august 2nd) and she's walking and attempting to talk and she's so independent and loud :) she's such a cutie and a goofball.

she also absolutely adores dora the explorer and will ignore everything around her when dora is on. below is a pic of her intranced by dora :)
she does some crazy things with her eyebrows, she's such a goofball
she's such a little person now. she walks around and does what she wants and just babbles and screaches in her loud pitch, it's so funny. i can't not laugh at her.

glad for the fall coming and that i'll have more free time to hang out with her and geri and the dogs. the dogs are good to but a little more left out than they're used to due to them being so big and mckenna being so small, they could knock her over. but she loves them and actually likes to be in the middle of them and pushed around a bit. she also likes to ride them :) she just laughs and laughs.

brutus and his wrinkles

i went over to my friend brittany's house last week and got to meet their bulldog brutus. he's such a brut and so cute with his wrinkles. he's a good boy but still got some puppy in him :) and he's incredibly strong for such a short, stout dog; so much so that he knocked me over playfully.
i love the brindle on him! such a handsome boy :) he's so strong that he has to have a harness instead of a collar so he doesn't choke himself. look at that face

grubby's cabin (minus grubby)

went up to sunset lodge the last week of august for our annual "grubby's cabin" week at the lake. unfortunately, grubby couldn't even come this year (he choose to go on the price is right instead :P) sunset lodge is my favorite resort ever and it's on my favorite lake, potato in park rapids. below is the beautiful sunset on the first night i was there. here's the sunset on another night. they have the best place to see the sunset on the entire lake. it's just gorgeous!!
my mom and lee just before sunset.
this is my buddy jackson. he is the cutest thing in the whole world and i never want him to change or grow up :) he is the best baby and so smily and easy going. he's my favorite!! this is my favorite pic of him too, soooo cute!!
my bro and his little buddy logan. logan turned 7 while we were up at the lake. and my brother kinda looks like screech in this picture :) goofballs
over all it was a great week. got to wakeboard a bunch at the beginning of the week, then the later part of the week got windy. my good friend sarah ended making it up for a couple of days along with her parents!! got to use the moriarty's awesome boat and had good food all around. can't wait to do it again next year!!