Don't think that it means we haven't been busy!
So what's been happening? and can I sum up 9 months in less than 30 photos?
January 4 - our good friends Rod and Kelley get married in a lovely ceremony in the woods. Yes, in January. Beautiful, and in a word... C O L D. Oddly remniscient of my Mom and Bob's wedding, also on January 4th, on the beach... in Manitowoc. Also cold and lovely.
I stage managed a wonderful production of Nobody Lonesome For Me, a great fantasy about Hank William's last night by the same author that wrote Lady Day at the Emerson Bar and Grill that I did a few years ago. Matthew Brumlow was stunning as Hank and Peter Silbert held us together as the ghost guitarist.
We actually cancelled a couple performances during this mostly sold out run... One for the over 4 feet of snow that we got
and One, again 'due to relevant Football game' - yes,amid much alcohol, the Green Bay Packers became the 2011 Super Bowl Champs.
Mom and Dad Koenig visited in January with Dominic Brenden and MadiAnd before you know it... Baseball is back!!
Our first game of the season was a Brewers Rising Star game, you guessed it, the Brewers won.
Then another Brewers Game - Happy Brewer Fans and Sad Braves fans
On a whim, we decided that Easter dinner would best be enjoyed at the ball park! Our good friends the McMillions put together a lovely tailgate and we enjoyed a beautiful, sunny, perfect day for baseball.
More summer baseball - a lot of Brewers games this year and a couple of new parks for us, we took in a game at the Corn Crib and cheered for the Normal Corn Belters
We took our Anniversary trip to Minneapolis and took in a game at the new Target Field. It was a perfect day of baseball, we went to the Minneapolis sculpture garden, then over to the game and after the Twins beat the Tigers, we walked up the block a little and enjoyed a few local beers while we watched the Cardinals on TV.
Another new park for us, we finally made it to (some of) a Rapids Rafters game with Gail, Tom, Dan, Christina and our A D O R A B L E Godson Gavin. He's so patriotic! It is a great park and it was shaping up to be a good game when the sky opened up and sent us diving for cover. But we recovered with a night of Quiddler and the game eventually went all the way to the 13th inning!And finally, to get caught up on the summer (sort of) the end of an era - Pete parted with his golden locks for a much cooler and very snazzy short hair cut!
That's it... only 22 photos and we're caught up! Now, going into the fall, we've also been slacking on our summer house projects, but there's paint and a new sink for the upstairs bathroom, new flooring in the back of the car and lots of plans for the next couple of weeks. Our Goal? September 29th we have to have the upstairs put back together, hopefully less brown and orange!
Stay tuned! Before and after pictures are on the horizon!
