7/17 Weekend July 21, 2009

Well first off I must say that this summer has been flying by! I really don’t know where all of the time has gone. It has also been a bit busier than I had expected because I think I’ve done something almost every weekend.

This past weekend started off on Friday when my family drove back up to Minneapolis to see Jaspar’s private house show. It was also a chance to visit with Jaspar’s family who was up visiting from Arizona. (This weekend family from Arizona, the weekend before was family from Kentucky ). Here’s a few shots I took at the house show:

Some group shots:

The family minus Gina

us girls

cousins

Jaspar was given this funky leopard print pill box hat.

On Sunday we took the drive up to my uncle Greg’s for a potluck and to visit with family some more. On our way back down home we stopped off at Jaspar and Kale’s potluck for more visiting I only ended up with a couple of photos because I was being lazy and only had my little camera with in the fading light.

Janelle

Kaelyn

We ended up staying there pretty late (we don’t get to see them very often). I think that Kaelyn has convinced me to take a trip to Arizona to experience something new. Maybe some of her energy and creativity will rub off on me. When this will be? I don’t know. Soon I hope, which would make sense because I have the free time right now.

The drive home was a bit frustrating trying to get out of Minneapolis and having all of your options blocked off because of road work. It seems like they are doing work on just about every road they can get their hands on. Thank goodness for GPS! (although hearing “recalculating” 20 times in a row is annoying.) One bad thing that happened this weekend is my external portable hard drive keeled over   I’ll have to figure out how much I lost with that. I was editing a photo from Friday when my computer froze and when I plugged my external HD in the next time it wasn’t working and I freaked the heck out! Not only are photos and files lost, I’ll have to shell out some bucks to replace it (and I’m low on the green these days).

Send Me Home Pre-CD Release & Farewell Show July 13, 2009

This past Friday on the 10th we took a little trip up to Minneapolis to see my cousin Jaspar’s “farewell show”. I’ve always felt so bad about not making it to any of her shows and I thought this would be an important one to go to since it’s one of her last before she moves to South Africa for two years. It was held at The Glacier Fringe and the show started at 8pm but we ended up being about an hour in a half late because Eric didn’t get off work until 8pm so we waited for him so we could all drive up there together. We hit some traffic on the way up and then drove in circles for a while trying to find a place to park which can be very dangerous for pedestrians when a middle aged man that hates driving in the cities and is becoming enraged is behind the wheel. He almost hit two kids and then a guy in a wheel chair but I think the guy in the wheel chair had a death wish anyway because he was using one of those motorized chairs at night with no lights of reflective tape so he was almost invisible. I was afraid that we would miss the whole show with being so late! It ends up that we got there during intermission (so we missed the first half) but we did get to see the second half and got to mingle with family for a while before and after the second half.

Jaspar can be found here: http://www.myspace.com/jasparlepak

Here’s just a few photos from the night:

Jaspar’s husband Kale played the accordian and provided some harmony vocals:

Mom & Eric

Mom & Teri

Carol & Jake

Dad & Greg

Eric, Jaspar, & Jake

Me & Jaspar

Kale & Jaspar

Good Neighbor Days June 1, 2009

This Past Saturday I drove up to join my friends for a good time in Roberts, Wisconsin for Good Neighbor days. We started off at Colette’s house and once it got dark out the fireworks started and we headed to the beer tent where the Dweebs were playing. I hadn’t ever heard of them before but I was pleasantly surprised.

 

 

Ron, Brad, Josh, Jimmy P, & Phil

 

The lovely miss Rachel

 

Rachel, Jessie W, me, Jessie, & Colette. Lynsie is in there somewhere between Rachel & Jessie W.

 

Jimmy P, Brad, Jessie, & Phil

 

Lynsie & I

 

Colette, me, & Jessie

 

Brad & Rachel

 

Rachel, Jessie, & Phil

 

Jessie & Lynsie

 

Brad, Rachel, & Josh

 

Max & Jessie

 

I love this one so much! Lynsie & Josh trying to squeeze through the fence.

 

After spending the night in the tent rocking out to the Dweebs we walked back over to Colettes for some quality time around the fire which was built with logs Ron hijacked from the neighbors.

 

 

Max, Lynsie, & Josh

 

Jessie & Josh didn’t pick a good place to sit, unless if they’re the type of people that enjoy smoke burning their eyes & lungs.

 

Jessie looking very redneck in Jimmy P’s jacket & bandana.