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Rick & I get lots of questions about where Mallory & Carson get their blond hair from. Rick & I both had blond-ish hair when we were little but nothing like how white-blond Carson’s hair gets in the summer.
Me, about 2 years old. I hope I’m wearing pants.

We also get the standard “who do you think they (the kids) look like?” questions. Lots of people say that both of the kids look like my dad – which is interesting, since people also say the kids like a lot like Rick (and I don’t think my dad & Rick look …

Carson, Football, grandpa, Mallory, stb

Road Trip

Nothing like a beautiful fall weekend with 80* weather for a night football game on the shores of Lake Michigan!
The kids and my folks and I took to the highway (or espressaway as Mallory still calls it) to watch Michigan play “the Kitties” (Northwestern).
We made a stop at Lou Malnatis in Chicago for my favorite pizza before going to Evanston. We tried to scope out parking and tailgating options but they don’t have golf courses and high schools nearby (and for some reason my package of football parking passes didn’t come with a pass for Ryan Field…)
So, we thought we …

Carson, Football, friends, Mallory, stb

Game 4, 2011

Hmmmm…

CW – could you please just smile for a picture with your dear old mom?

Grandpa – was this as insulting to you as it was when I read a book during our tour of the Grand Canyon back when I was like 12?

Tackle football with the K kids. The first day back to school after playing with B, K & A usually results in the teachers mentioning that C was a little rough with the other kids ;-)

Weally weally fast…

We won. We beat San Diego State. Go Blue!

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Rite of passage

Mallory made her first PB&J sandwich this past weekend. I was so proud of her. It reminded me of this A-DORABLE picture of myself from back when I was 4-ish. No, I’m not wearing a diaper.

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“I thought you said we won?”

Michigan played their first ever night game in Michigan Stadium last night. We won. It was awesome. It was exciting. It was everything it could have been.
I told Rick before the game that Michigan better win because otherwise it would have been a waste of a perfectly great tailgate and day. I left the kids with a sitter (thank you Miss Joy!) and prayed it wouldn’t rain and that we’d win. I wasn’t disappointed.
Our day started off with a family trip to Lowes – Rick actually didn’t have to go into work until about the time I was going to …

Carson, Football, grandpa, Mallory, stb

Game One

Michigan’s 2011 season started yesterday.
The weather predictions were all over the place the whole week before the game. As late as Thursday night there were predictions of 60% chance of strong afternoon thunderstorms on Saturday. By Friday morning it had dropped to 20% chance – HOORAY! But it was now forecasted to be in the mid-90s. Hmmm.
As we packed up the van Saturday morning I totally forgot to pack rain gear. But it was like 80* and not a cloud in the sky at 9.30a. I had sunscreen though, which was all I thought we’d need.
Biggie & Rich had a …

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Dashing Warriors

So I ran the first race I ever signed up for the other day. This was the one that got me to start actually trying to run this spring, and then I ran that other 5K in June – which was the first race I’d ever run. But the race today was the first one I ever signed up for.
But this wasn’t just any race, it was the Warrior Dash.
And this is what the Warrior Dash is: Warrior Dash is a mud-crawling, fire-leaping, extreme run from hell. This fierce running series is held on the most challenging and …

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I’m not ready

I’m not ready for my baby girl to start kindergarten.
I’m not ready for my baby boy to be talking soooo much.
I’m not ready for Mallory to have a real loose tooth.
I’m not ready for Mallory to ride a school bus. I mean she’s my BABY GIRL!
Oh – and I’m not ready for football season.
Well, maybe I’m ready for football season. I’m just not ready for Rick’s football season work schedule.
I just need my life to slow down for like a DAY.
Please.

Carson, cousins, Mallory, rb, stb

Lots of Cousins

We went to Chicago this weekend (more on that later) for a Cubs game (more on that later too) and got to meet up with lots of my cousins for dinner on Friday night.
The restaurant was noisy which was good for covering up my “not handling the time change well since we didn’t eat dinner until 8p Michigan time” kids but not good for trying to catch up with my cousins.
It was fun to see everyone though, and we’ll see them all again in October when Michigan plays at Northwestern!
Imam (my cousin Whitney’s boyfriend), my cousin Whitney, my cousin Rory, …

Carson, Mallory, rb, stb

My Tigers

We went to the Tigers game last night.
Carson was excited. He said he was going to catch a ball.

Mallory was not excited. She was hot. And Rick was making fun of her.

Carson was adorable when he would excitedly yell “GO TIGERS!!!”.
Unfortunately he didn’t catch a ball this time.

Mallory was more excited when Rick finally gave her $10 to go ride the merry-go-round and we saw Paws on the way. Carson wouldn’t pose with Paws.

Both kids were excited about the temperature dropping two degrees once the sun went down, as well as riding the tigers on the merry-go-round.

I was excited that …

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