Not Quite a Month Behind

So I'm not quite a month behind, but i'm getting there. If i Had posted closer to real-time it would have gone a little something like this....

"Just like Dennis Kucinich, my trophy wife just turned the big 3 - 0" (by waiting this long to post this, its actually true, her birthday was yesterday). "And what better way to celebrate than to have brooke and chris throw a failed surprise party for her to honor the big event. Unfortunately, we waited until a week before the party to actually plan it so the turnout was a little low, but what we lacked in quantity we made up for in quality.

(Here is a link to the pics)

Late september and early october is a big time for stephanie and I. We have our date-aversary (21st of september, thanks to earth, wind, and fire), stephanie's b-day, pj's b-day, and pieter's birthday (with julie's b-day in there as well). we decided to combine all of these events into one big birthday gala and celebrate with brunch at canoe's. Besides the hundreds of snakes that we saw in the water, it was a absolutely perfect day, i did a little research on the snakes and found out that they were "twig-snakes", a common variety found near trees.

(here's a picture of the group taken from somewhere around tennessee)

(great family photo of casey, pj and rece)

(our family picture with me, stephanie, and brayden..........and jeff.......checking out the twig-snakes)

(Oma and brayden)

(2 things to note in this picture: 1) Shadows make for aweful pictures and 2) kids love shinny necklaces........)


(kids really love shinny necklaces.....and Oma's should really leave them at home or risk asphyxiation)

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So that's how the blog would have gone. knowing then what i know now, it would have been waaay...well, it would have been the same.