The End Of The Summer Soccer Season

Careline got the scoring started just moments in to the Packers last game of the Summer of 2013 soccer season on Tuesday evening.  The goal was her 10th goal of the season.  She had at least the same amount and actually probably more assists to her credit for the year.  She truly is a team player who is always far more concerned about the overall outcome of the game than of her personal stats.

It has been Careline's mission to get the ball to her good friend Ella as often as possible for the past few games because Ella hadn't scored yet this year.  At Tuesday's game the rest of the team joined in on the mission and by golly Ella scored!  How sweet is this photo of the girls celebrating with her?!

After the game, the girls posed with Abby's Dad, SuperMan/SuperFan, Andy.  The Packers should be proud of their regular season record of 7 wins, 2 losses, and 1 tie.
 

Wheeeeeee

Kaposia Days

It was Kaposia Days this weekend in good old South St Paul.  The fun started with a parade on Friday night.  Thankfully we had 3 umbrellas with us as it rained pretty hard for about 15 minutes just as the parade started.  It cleared out though and ended up to be a decent night.

On Saturday and Sunday there were all sorts of fun events in the central part of town including BINGO (dang, we weren't winners again this year!), fair foods, games, rides and rides.  We had a fun weekend partaking in the festivities.

I wish I could say that the fireworks last night was a good ending to the fun but really it was rather scary for both the kids and us Parents.  Pat and I knew there was something wrong right from the start.  When the first booms went off there weren't fireworks to be seen in the sky but a big cloud of smoke arose from where they were shooting the fireworks off.  Shortly thereafter the fireworks started but were much lower in the sky than normal (about 5 minutes into the show sparks actually came plummeting to the ground probably about 40 feet to the left of us narrowly missing a family).  We'd had enough and grabbed the kids and darted out of there when a few moments later something else went wrong from the spot where they were setting the fireworks off and balls of fire probably 10 feet wide and 30 feet high exploded.  Thankfully fireworks of this magnitude are all set off from a remote location or surely people would have lost their lives last night.  It was a scary deal!  I'm thinking the kids might not be ready to go see fireworks again 3 nights from now!

Painting Project

Chillin' In The Hot Tub

Pat drained the hot tub on Sunday, cleaned it, and filled it up with fresh water.  While the water was warming up to the super steamy temperature we like it at the kids had their chance to splash around in it for a while.

Buddy looks just like his Daddy looks in the hot tub every night (minus the Coors Light in hand, of course)!

One Cool Cat

Pretty Bird

Finches have been hanging out in our birch tree and on the plants on our deck lately.  It's bold yellow feathers made this one particularly pretty.