Double Date Night

How fun! It's been so long since Vince and I had been on a date, but last night we went on a double date with our friends Tom & Laura (we pronounce Louda) Anyhow, we went to the Conklin's Barn Dinner Theater to have a lovely buffet and to watch Perfect Wedding. Our server was Dan and he was awesome. He gave us extra cheese appetizer and let me tell you.... IT'S SO GOOD! We also had desserts and I had the chocolate peanut butter pie, I even gave it a standing ovation. The barn allows guests to byob (that means bring your own beer), but being the classy bunch we are, we had wine. DELICIOUS!! It was a wonderful evening that was filled with some out of the ordinary conversations about wounds, things that ooze, and drainage. When you hang out with a nurse you just never know what can be talked about. We had a lovely evening and we would like to publicly thank Tom & Laura for inviting us on a such a wonderful evening!

The (Almost) Frozen Tundra of Lambeau Field

Well it was a nice weekend in Green Bay. I went with my father-in-law(Jose) and bro-in-law (Omar). It was a nice man's weekend. The only thing that could of been better was if the Bears had actually showed up and won. They lost 37-3. But I guess it was better the packers won cause it wouldn't of been too enjoyable with 2 grumpy packer fans the rest of the weekend. Here are some pictures if I can get them up. Sandra usually does the pics but she has been pretty busy and I am gonna try to do this myself. We'll see what happens.




Above is Omar doing the Lambeau Leap at the Packers HOF Located inside Lambeau.

The bike picture sums up the whole weekend. I was on a trip with 2 kids in Packer Heaven. I had a lot of fun as well, but these 2 guys were 2 kids on Christmas morning all weekend. The bike story is that on game day they ride kids bikes from the training facility to the stadium. Its a tradition that started who knows when. The big guy in the back right is Gilbert Brown.





Vince Lombardi's office in the Packers Hall of Fame.
Lombardi is one Packer I like. Not just because his name is Vince either. My favorite quote from him is "Winning isn't Everything, It's the only thing"





Yeah they won 3 super bowls. Big whoop, we did the Super Bowl Shuffle. Don't they look so happy though


Along with the Hall of Fame we took a tour of Lambeau Monday morning before we headed home. We got to go out the tunnel the Packers go out on gameday. Pretty cool even for a bears fan.


Yep I married into a Cheesehead family. The sacrifices we make for love.


This is Gilbert Brown(Former Packer) He was at the tailgating party we went to at Brett Favre's Restaurant. All you can eat burgers, brats, beer, screwdrivers and more from 9am until kickoff.
Yummy!!!

Gotta love the bumpers!

The three of us went bowling last night for fun! It was a great experience, we only bowled one game, but seeing Sofia try to push the ball down the lane and then watching it slowly roll all the way down to what it seemed like eternity was great. Even better was when she hit a pin or several and got so excited about it. I think the entire bowling alley watched her have fun. She's so funny. Vince won 140... not bad. Sofia got 45 and I barely made 80. What a great night though. It was good family fun and didn't spend that much on our evening.

I have to tell you all about the deer Sofia and I saw in the backyard on Wednesday. It was a buck, with huge antlers and he stood about as tall as me. It scared me, but he ran down the ravine quickly, thank goodness. The first thing I said of course was, "That was AWESOME!!". After Louie went to the bathroom we went inside... here comes the best. Once we got inside Sofia looks at me and says (mind you she hadn't said anything while we were outside),

"Mami, I didn't like that big squirrel." :)

The Cereal Wall

Some of you have seen Vince's "project" at the house. It all started from an idea a few of his roommates had. Somebody thought a cereal name and picture was funny and they taped it on the wall, soon it became a joke to find other cereal boxes with funny names and pictures to put on the wall. What was one cereal turned into hundreds and so they placed different cereals on the wall and it was their goal to keep finding new ones. The summer after the kitchen was covered in cereal boxes the owner of the college house took all the boxes down to paint the kitchen, thus eliminating their precious wall. I remember how devastated the guys were that all their hard work, all that cereal eaten, was gone. Vince suggested that some day he would like to have that cereal wall again. Well, here we are.... 2008. Vince and Sofia (mostly) have been working on this for a few months now. They are over 50 boxes of different kinds of cereals, all unique, all eaten at the house. So, if you want to help us make this wall, you have to come over and eat our cereal... that's the catch... it can only be consumed at our house. I already brought up the fact that we could finish it in a week if I asked my students to do it for extra credit... Vince said, "that's not how it works." I respect that, plus we have to look for all the non-brand name cereals that are spoofs for the name brand ones. For example, Reece's Puffs... we have that and Coco Peanut Butter Spheres... yeah and the cereal box has a purple octopus on it, not sure why. Anyhow... here's how the wall is looking.

FYI: Sofia took the picture on the left. Her and Vince were playing around earlier in the day taking pictures of the wall.

Bing, Bong, yeah it's me... give me the candy! I'm Superman, look at the red pant legs!

Sofia's first year trick or treating. It was tons of fun!! Our new neighborhood gives out GOOD candy, not the crappy non-official halloween candy. All NAME brand candy, it was AWESOME!! We met some of our neighbors too. The lady across the street gave Sofia a stuffed halloween kitty cat toy and the family next to her was giving out NORMAL size kit-kat bars!! Unbelievable, yet amazing... Sofia loved ringing doorbells, she didn't always say "trick or treat", but she knew to stick out her pumpkin so people would give her candy. It was cool. We went around the block and came home. She was getting tired and the pumpkin was getting too heavy (that's a good sign). Oh, and we did have to get back home to our costume party at the house. We had a great crew come over.... a jellyfish that one 1st place, a racket ball guy, a security guard, a pumpkin, a hunter, and even Lou Pinella!! Vince dressed as a police officer and I was a black cat. If you can't tell from Sofia's pictures... she was a white cat, but didn't want to wear the cat ears. Great Halloween!