BAM - Travels, Travels and More Travels

Last week The Gardener was in St. Louis on Sunday and Monday, Dodge City on Wednesday through Friday and left Dodge City on Friday for Dallas - time for a visit to Sylvie and family!

Friday night was spent helping Sylvie and Coach prepare for Saturday's fall fundraiser and prep we did. Check out the "before" picture to the left. Yes, we were up past midnight. Saturday was quite successful, almost $4,000 was raised!

The Golfer arrived via airplane on Saturday morning for a quick weekend and offered up great assistance and company during the fundraiser. He also enjoyed Wii with the kids, although he definitely suffered a Wii bowling injury and we're not confident the Wii control works all that great anymore. Perhaps it has something to do with the control hitting the coffee table, then the ceiling, then the tile floor. The good news is - The Golfer's hand isn't broken!

Now, you won't believe these children. I had wanted to post their baby pictures next to their first photos on The Blog but alas, it's 10:15pm and The Gardener still needs to hit the treadmill.

Here's the KyleMAN (in the red shirt) helping load a sold trampoline on to a truck. The emphasis on MAN was intended. This kid is wearing a size 13 shoe!

After the volleyball game on Saturday night (see info next to Mistletoe's photo) KyleMAN took us through the hallway of his old school to show us the many trophies engraved with his name!KyleMAN has turned into quite the football player and has been recognized often for his great play and sportsmanship as well as his terrific academics. It does not suprise TG&TG that KyleMAN loves football; we recall him at about 12 months old standing in front of our TV on Sunday afternoon, pounding the screen and hollering "football! football!" I even have a photo of that somewhere......

TG&TG were lucky enough to get to see Mistletoe in action during a rec volleyball game on Saturday! The school volleyball season is over and it's on to rec volleyball which Mistletoe really enjoys and she's good at it. She was also kind enough to give up her bedroom for us - mucho appreciation, Toe!

Mistletoe has matured a lot since last September when Sylvie and The Gardener took her to the Mall of America. One thing about Mistletoe that won't ever change.....she's a shopper!

Sunday morning at 10am came too soon as TG&TG hit the road. As we turned off their streeet, The Golfer said "that was a great time!" and he's right, it was! It was a very short trip and sometimes those end up being the best. A mere 7.5 hours later when we were 30 minutes from home, The Gardner said "That was a quick trip home!" and The Golfer replied "Of course it was, you slept all of it but 2 hours!". Thanks to The Golfer (aka my hero) for driving me home after I'd driven/ridden many, many miles that week. And to Sylvie and family...we'll see you again soon! Miss you all!