4th of July

Picnic with the Great Grandparents

Summer Solstice

Liz brough the best salsa every: papaya and black bean. I will forever owe her for this recipe!

Blue Bombers

Fancy Nancy

I took 5 girls and Landon in the Ergo to a Fancy Nancy party at the library. The girls had a blast but it was SO CROWDED!! I hope that if they choose to host another party, they host it at Main so there's more room!

Strawberries

With our 37 lbs of strawberries, we have frozen 4 gallons for smoothies, made 20+ jars of jam, given some to friends, made milkshakes, shortcake, and strawberry spinach salad. I am surprised we are not turning red! Travis wanted to pick more on Sunday but when we were only a quarter of the way through the prep process, he agreed a break would be good.

La Crosse Loggers

Unfortunately the Loggers lost 6-0, but it was a gorgeous night and a fun time was had by all. I'm sure the next few days won't be as fun as we recover from this late night.

Surviving The Gundersen Cup

You know you're not 16 anymore, when your pre game warm up includes:
jacking the heat in the car up to 100 degrees and eating a handful of ibuprofen.
Post game you need to nurse wounds round the clock with ibuprofen, ice and elevation. Travis enjoyed playing but two 30 minute halves with few subs was rough on the guys. He says he needs to play more "strategically" now-like he can only give bursts of speed some time so he needs to choose those times wisely. The resident-staff race is tonight.....I think it's going to be a rough week for everyone with a lot more ibuprofen. It's certainly more fun to watch and joke as we age!

I was entertained by one of the spectators shirts:
I came
I played
I conquered.

We were thinking more along the lines of:
I came
I played (sort of)

Gundersen Cup 2011

We'll let you know how the 2012 Cup goes.