Happy Birthdays

Well......A string of Happy Birthdays to

Kolbe

Bret

Andrew

and

Monique

can you name the one who could probably use some Grecian Formula?

or the one who could have asked Shawn Johnson out on a date?

or the one with the longest hair?

or the one who first saw the world in 2001?

Keep those birthdays coming!


Shawn Johnson is the Olympic gold medalist from Iowa

Posted by Randy

Happy Wedding Anniversary

A Happy Anniversary to Carl and Donna they are celebrating well over 50 years of marriage. I'm thinking about 55 or 56 wedding years. That is a lot of years of light bulb changing!

Posted by Randy

and stephen wanted to go on the log ride...

but i didn't...

although i did go on the tornado, which was my first roller coaster. and the first time is always the worst. and now thinking back, i do kind of want to go on it again. along with the raging river, the sawmill splash, the silly silo, the bumper cars, the underground the g-force and the tilt a whirl.
so technically another trip to adventure land.

I'd forgotten how much fun it can be...

..especially after going on the tilt-a-whirl, the bumper cars, the silly silo,the silly silo again, and then the tilt-a-whirl again...can really make you nauseous, but i did NOT throw up! ;)

but i still had a great time with my friend Chris [second from top in photo], my mom and my younger siblings.
i think Philomena especially had fun going on [one right after the other] the log ride the silly silo the tilt-a-whirl and the tornado. and then later in the day going on the dragon twice in a row.
along with Chris who went on the log ride the silly silo twice the tilt-a-whirl and the tornado with the only break being the walk between rides. and also went on the dragon twice in a row with Philomena.
and it was also moms first time on the raging river because she was always holding one of us in a stroller! and while we went down the river i went directly under the water fall and got soaked!
and then dried off on the combination of rides i mentioned above

only Stephen escaped unscathed

and then proceeded to go on the log ride where he got drenched.


sorry mom that your anniversary was the only available day to go, and i thank you for bringing us!

posted by Daniel

Wedding Anniversay

Well it is our wedding anniversary!

24 years ago on September 7 who would expect or imagine all that has occurred from that day forward? In just 24 short years!

It was a hot day, a very hot day, in fact the whole summer was relatively cool (a lot like this summer year), and then on our wedding day it became HOT and humid!

we have a lot to be thankful for and to be proud of.

We are thankful for having great parents (and we do not have to separate them out and call them in laws because we consider them all one big set) (or call them outlaws....just kidding)

We are thankful for all our brothers and sister and their families

We are most thankful for our children

We are proud of our children and all the accomplishments they have made, and continue to make as they grow into adults.

We are proud of all the nieces and nephews and what they are doing and how they are making a difference in the activities they do.

how are we going to celebrate our wedding anniversary day?

.....Well Caroline is going to take the kids down to Adventureland and I get to stay up here and work!

We will probably go out to dinner sometime this week.

So I guess some things never change!

So, Caroline it has been 24 years, I loved you when we got married, I love you now, and I will love you in the future.

Posted by Randy

More Birthday wishes!!!

No icon this time, since that is all you see is birthday icons!

As usual a belated birthday to my brother Greg S. he is following close behind me in age.

Happy Birthdays to Daniel S. and Xavier who share the same birth date!

Daniel has already picked out his birthday cereal along with the cake, icing and ice cream. we did forget to get milk so rationing may have to occur tomorrow for breakfast.

Xavier I hope you have a super tremendous birthday!

Daniels may have to be delayed until after the weekend.

Thank you Raphael for the neat birthday card I really enjoyed it, that was great!

Daniel now has his school driving permit, and he drives to school each morning to go to shop class.

The ridge vent is up on the house, and the upstairs bathroom vent is now vented outside so the problem of too much moisture in the attic in the winter time is cured.

Also I washed down the house. I rented a boom rig for the day. so that worked out really nice. I had a friend come over and he put in the ridge vent and bathroom vent.

I started my third masters class last week. It is going good, the class deals with measuring performance outcomes.

We now have 3 out of the house, Sarah is in her own place in Summner, IA teaching school, Mary is back at Central, and Matthew is at Buena Vista in Storm Lake. We had a whirlwind of moving.

It took a little while to get use to the new kind of quiet in the house.

Matthew finished his bat house and he still needs to finish one more merit badge to earn his Eagle. We are hoping he finishes that merit badge very soon.

If you have not checked out Sarah's latest blog site you need to check it out. Here is the link "http://www.exuberantflute86.blogspot.com/"

If that did not work here it is so you can copy it and past in your browser:
http://www.exuberantflute86.blogspot.com/

September is here and we are enjoying the cool nights.

That is all posted by Randy

a non boring post [yay!]

or you could call it ''hallelujah someone posted!"
'cause nobody does, except for randy and his b-day updates.

lolz are made of awesome :D

unlike this computer monitor,
with its annoying blue line and gray area,
and sometimes a 5th of the screen goes black ):[

i was going to show you a funny video, but i forgot what it was.

oh yeah now i remember.

since i can't upload it onto here [anyone know how to do that?] you'll have to go here.

so randy is on top of our house fixing the roof, that has been leaking through the light fixture in Stephens room and causing various other water stains throughout the house.

i have been chatting with my friend on windows live, occasionally inviting Mary and Matt as they become available,

they don't say much, they probably just sit back and laugh at our extreme randomness. :P

pandas,

like that, sometimes we wonder who is more random.

grifball is the best game in the world,

me, it's me.

you don't know the meaning of random till you have met me.

well I'll try to brighten your lives later but that's it for now,

so remember, nobody posts, annoying computer monitor and mountain dew.

posted by Daniel

Its my Birthday

Well it is my Birthday! One year less than the half century mark.

Our church bulletin yesterday had an announcement of an open house next Sunday for Monsignor Slepicka who will be celebrating his 80th birthday. He does not look a day over 60 and he has been to Alaska this past year. I hope I have that much energy when I am at that age!

We will be celebrating my birthday tomorrow. Things were too busy today.

Everybody have a good week

Posted by Randy