Swine Flu

Hello all! It's been awhile since I posted last. We have all been sick :( Such a bummer! It all started with my sweet nephew Cullen and it spread through my family like wild fire! On Friday, the majority of the family went bowling since it was MEA, we had so much fun!! Cullen got sick on Friday afternoon, I got it on Saturday night, my sister, Kyle & Elizabeth got it on Sunday morning, Matthew got it Sunday night, my mom & Connor got a touch of it on Monday and Ben got it today! It's been crazy! Some of had it worse than others. I am happy to say that Matthew and I seem to be over the hump. We have had fevers since the weekend... but we both have been fever-free since this afternoon... we hope it is gone for good! Below are some pics from the bowling adventure!


A rare moment when Matthew and Luke are loving each other instead of fighting!
Matthew throwing the ball while Cullen stands by.

My mom, Kristin and Elizabeth

Vikings vs. Packers Game

Ben's boss has season tickets to the Vikings games and almost every year we get the Packer tickets! This year was especially fun with all of the Favre hype! We had pretty good seats, on the corner of the end zone and in row 11! :) But first, we headed downtown with Carey and Jess and met some more Hastings folks! We went to Sneaky Pete's and took advantage of their FABULOUS Happy Hour Specials!! Not such a good idea on a Monday night!! It's been a long week because of that!! And during halftime I got to see Heidi!!! So fun! needless to say we had so much fun and it was a great game to watch! I loved it! It was fun to have a night out after a weekend of being a mom 24/7 :)

At Sneaky Petes...

Us with Carey and Jess...

We even could see Randall McDaniel! if you look in the front row, he is wearing his yellow Hall Of Fame jacket!
Heidi and I with a random DIE HARD fan! :) Couldn't resist the photo op! :)

Mommy & Matthew Weekend

Mattthew and I spent some quality time together this weekend while Ben was in Kansas City at a Nascar race! :) Friday we went bowling with one of my BFFs, MerBear and her boys Ben and Jake and we spent the night at their house! We had so much fun! her boys are 5 and 8 and are SOOO sweet to Matthew, he loves them! Saturday morning we picked up Connor and Cullen and brought them to Connor's soccer game... Holy Angels vs. Cretin Durham Hall. Connor's team lost, but he did get a very impressive goal! it was 46 degrees and raining :( Not so fun to sit and watch that game!! After that we headed to Hastings to go to Tori's b-day party at the gymnastics center! Kim hired 2 coaches, one for the girls and one for the boys. Matthew had some more "big boys" to hang out with! He was in his glory!! :) On Sunday the 2 of us just hung out and relaxed... it was great! That afternoon we went to watch Grace's gymnastics meet! she did awesome of course and qualified for State! YAY Gracie!

Matthew getting ready for his first shot! :)

At Mer's house with Jake (8) and Ben (5)

Playing goalie at halftime at Connor's game....

At the b-day party jumping into the foam pit... adding a twist!

The kids at the b-day party... Matthew would not sit for the picture. :(
And our little gymnast!