October Birthdays

October is a busy birthday month for our family.  Dad, Melissa, Grandma Hultgren, Greg, and Clay all have birthdays in the month of October.  Dad turned the big 50 last weekend on 10-10-10 and then Melssa turned 31 yesterday 10-16-10.  Today we had a surprise 75th birthday party for Grandma...whos birthday is 10-19 and then Uncle Gregs birthday is 10-20 (or 10-21).  Perfect day for the event! We met at the Fremont Airboat Club got everything set up and then waited for the guest of honor to show up.  Grandma was pretty surprised when she pulled up and saw about 50 of her closest family and friends there.  It was a great Fall day and a great time with good friends, good family, and great food :-). 

Here are some pictures from our October Birthday Weekend Celebration:

Soooo we put the number candles on Melissa's cake/pie...however Hy-Vee had ran out of the number 3 candles so we put a number 4 on the candle so it said "41 instead of 31"  This is the Melissa's shocked face! She was a great sport about it!!

Grandma with her cake that Melissa made for the Surprise Party...it was Tasty Goodness!!!

Here is our family portrait, minus Clay.  He had to work today so couldn't make it.  Grandpa, Grandma, Greg, Carolyn, Mom, Dad, Marta, Derek, Melissa, Pete and I :-) :-)

 

Waiting...I am not a good "Waiter"

So have you ever wondered how much in your lifetime you spend waiting? I mean if you take a moment and think back on things you waited for...wowza....there is alot of it! Examples: You just cant WAIT to move out on your own, you wait for a dinner at a fancy restaurant that doesn't except reservations, you wait for the perfect someone to come into your life, you wait for the perfect job, you wait you wait you wait. 

Well we are currently waiting on a big decision.  We put in an offer on a home in Blair.  People are always like "Blair...really?" But what it comes down to is Blair was a big part of our relationship.  We both lived in Blair for 4+ years and Blair is a nice small community, Great schools, and well lets face it...alot less to live in Blair then Omaha.  ANYWAYS, we put in an offer on a home and it was a short sale so we had to wait for the sellers to yes(which they did!) and now we are just waiting for the bank.  See in a short sale, its basically the Banks decision...they are the ones that are going to say heck yes you can have it or no way you can't have it! Our agent as well as the agent from the home, both said it could be a few days....we are going on 8 business days that we still have no word from the bank.  I'm trying not to get our hopes up but it is a great starter home and we both liked it!

So while we sit here waiting for a response from the bank...I am sitting back thinking about all the waiting I have done in my life...would I do it all over again....Heck yes... :-)

Wordless Wednesday

Homecoming "Memorial" Weekend 2010

It has a been a tradition for my friends and I to get together every homecoming.  Now in the past we would get together for lunch at Jen and Josh's, we would grill out, drink, and then go to the football game, obviously since there is no Dana College anymore, we were unable to go to the football game.  But not to stray away from tradition, we still got together and celebrated Dana and the friends we made at college.  It was a BYOS (Bring your own Stuff) party...everyone brings a meat to grill for yourself, alcohol (or beverage), and then a side dish to share with everyone.  Almost everyone brought hot dogs and Bubba brought steaks, which we then cut up so everyone could share if they wanted.  We had chips, pasta salads, potatoe salads, dips, a little bit of everything :-)

We set up a table in Jen and Josh's garage and had all the food and 2 sided buffet line :-)







When we were not eating we were usually in the back yard watchin the guys playin horseshoes and washers or just visiting...however last night, our night was interrupted abruptly when, while we were in the backyard hanging out we heard two cars crash and send a deafening sound through the neighborhood...everyone in the backyard started running to the front of the house...Shannon, George, and Pete were out front first and just started running towards the cars...turns out a lady ran a stop sign and the another car hit her.  All we could do was call 911 and then run up to the cars to make sure everyone was alright....the lady that ran the stop sign was obviously hurt, we didn't know how bad, but just kept reminding her passenger not to move her not to move her.  One of Jen's neighbors is a nurse, he also heard the crash, and came running...so he helped as well.  Jen, Molly, and I and another neighbor were trying to console the lady who had the right away and t-boned the car that ran the stop sign...within minutes the fire truck, ambulance, and cops showed up and they ended up taking all 3 people to the hospital.  It was a frightening moment for everyone!  After the accident, we all kind of sat around and talked about what just happened....I think we couldn't really believe it happened...but it did and we all did everything we could to help. 

Later on in the evening we followed through with another tradition and went to the bar :-) We went to Georges in Blair said hi to people there, moved onto the New Yorker in Blair, said hi to people there and then moved on to Mainstreet and sat there and had our drinks.  It was a great Homecoming "memorial" weekend and the tradition will certainly live on next year (hopefully minus a car accident in the neighborhood)