Busy, Busy, Busy

I know that it's been a while since my last post, but we have been busy trying to enjoy what seems to be the end of summer. The girls have already started school and are doing great. I will have first day of school pictures soon, I've just been too lazy to download them. Hawkeye football is in full swing, as well as, the Giants attempt to defend their Super Bowl title, so I have been busy with stressing over my two favorite teams. I got season tickets to the Hawkeyes this year and our friends, John and Denise Harris are going with us to Minnesota in December to watch the Giants/Vikings game.

Heather and I have really made some nice friends in the neighborhood this summer. As always, we spend a majority of our time with Jason Liedtke and his wife Erica in the yard just visiting. We made some new friends in John and Denise Harris. They have two kids, Dylan and Jaylynn, who play well with our kids. They are a real fun couple and have many of the same interests and morals that we do. We had a young couple move in across the street, Doug and Mallory, and we are still getting to know them. They are very nice and seem to be fun and outgoing. We welcomed some other new neighbors this summer, Mitch and Janet, but they have been busy as they just had a baby girl less than a month ago. She is a cute one and their 2 year old is quite funny. Finally, Joni and Chris moved to Urbana. It has been awesome having them around. It will also be great to be so close to my new niece or nephew when he/she arrives.

We started a "bags" league at our house this summer. On Saturdays, the neighbors, as well as some family, get together and we play a bags tournament. We have gotten so into the bags games that we have built lights to play at night as well as cup holders. I keep weekly statistics and e-mail them to everyone involved. It's amazing to me how this picked up and became quite popular in our neighborhood. What a good way to spend Saturday nights, no money needed and the company of friends and family. Below are a few pictures from this summer. Dylanne on the swing. her and her friends spend quite a bit of time on our playset in the summer. Do the glasses give away the fact that she is also a full blown diva?
Micheala enjoying the swing. She's suppose to be taking it easy, but it's hard to hold her back.
Micheala playing Nintendo DS one night in the dark. My neighbor Jason, who just adores Micheala, takes tons of pictures of her and thought this was an awesome photo. She looks a bit freaky to me.
A view of the bags game set up from my neighbors house.
Another photo of he bags game setup. If you look to the left in the photo, you can see where everyone sits to visit and watch the games.

I promise to stay more on top of things as some people have been complaining since I haven't updated recently.