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Lisa is up

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Miah's is up

Miah is sideways

my weeks end

this past weekend i traveled to minnesota with a group of friends... we had a lot of fun. spent some time at hard rock where ryan was greeted with a sippy cup after spilling his drink and an afternoon at the mall of america (MOA) never hurt anybody. we went to dinner at chevy's and rock climbing for an hour or so, which rocked! i got to stay with my brother ben while we were there and hear him preach on sunday as well... all in all it was a well planned weekend... until our ride home when jeremy incidentally missed the connection between i-94 and 29 and we ended up beyond tomah before we realized it, ouch. that only added an extra two hours to our trip back, but it made for some interesting stops along the way. here are some pictures to support my weekends happenings.

Heather Bob & Ryan in the MOA

The Bob's in the front seat of Miah's car

Chevy's... with their delicious smothered burritos

Which way is the gym?

Ben & the kids


P.S. You're welcome mom.

teeth chatter

IT'S COLD
12 degrees... -5 degrees with windchill... blowing snow, no hope for tomorrow
BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Mr. and Mrs. Harris

The Wedding

The Happy Little Couple

The Sharing of Cake... One of my most favorite parts of the evening. That was good cake Angie, well played... well played

The Dancing - and oh was there dancing... angie got jiggy with it, and likely her husband too...

crushed, absolutely crushed

those of you that know me well, know that i make little wire sculptures of various characters that look really good hanging off of rear view mirrors in cars, or on business cards for people like my brother. anyways, the first one of these characters that i made was created when i was in college, and it was a little wire man on a swing. as he hung from my rear view mirror he would swing back and forth in succession with the car. since this little man i have not created any others that i have liked just as much. i've made a superhero, a guitar man, a couple more swinging ones, and i believe a baseball player, but they all paled in comparison.

well this little wire man even made the transfer from car to car with me last october, but the other day, at some point, he accidentally fell out of my car without my knowledge. i believe it to be a day or two later when i noticed him missing on my ride home. i figured that he simply fell off in my car, so when i arrived home i took the time to look around for him, but he was no where to be found. when i opened the door of my car to head inside i looked to down at the pavement only to find my happy little swinging man had been crushed and was laying only inches from my car. he was covered in oily residue and flattened into a pancake. a horrific scene for any of weak heart to behold.

so this is my formal apology to you little swinger man, after 4 years of knowing and caring for you, i am sorry that we won't have more time together. i will replace you with a new swinging man, and i promise to more securely fasten him to my rear view mirror so as not to have a repeat of this horror.

one sick little monkey

so yesterday on my way home from school my throat started to scratch a little bit... and now it's developed into a full fledged sickness...

i thought it was going to take longer to develop which is why i went to my smart friend sarah's house when she offered to make me dinner... dinner was delicious mmm marinated steak and pasta, delicious, but i just couldn't focus during the after dinner convo part of the evening, because of my throat.

after my awful night of sleep last night i took the usual precautionary measures that any unmarried college graduate would do and i called my mother to see what advice she had to offer. just what i figured she ordered up some pseudofed with a side of theraflu, along with a delightful dessert of 'you need to find a doctor in your area'... ah, thank you mom just what i needed to hear...

thank you mom... i appreciate the advice and will get on that in the near future. i love you and miss you and wish that you were here to take care of me.