Quilts

A few pics of quilts I made.

Big Buck...Hunting in SD

Troy shot a pretty nice buck this morning. Not the one he had his heart set on, but a mighty nice buck. I think his lucky shirt had something to do with it.



Looking pretty grizzly with that beard!

RIP Franc Corrano

My first cousin Franc Corrano died early this morning. I don't have any of the details surrounding his passing. Franc was just a few months older than I was.
- I would also like to add that Facebook might not be the best place to let friends and family know a relative has passed away.



RIP Franco. Sally & Megan you are in my thoughts.

Halloween

Pre-Halloween we carved pumpkins, ate Halloween cookies & drank warm apple cider. Below are pics of our pumpkins!





















Halloween night pics - Sam is a french vampire, Braden was a mime.

Metallica - Target Center Minneapolis

Last night Troy & I attended our first Metallica concert together. This was Troy's 4th or 5th time seeing Metallica and only my second.

Our seats were pretty damn awesome. The price of beer - $7.50 with a 10pm cut off time was not. Troy would have prefered general admission because frankly I think he likes pushing people around. I'm a little short for that business.

Lamb of God opened - we only saw the last bit of that as we were enjoying some nice beers at the Rock Bottom Brewery.

Shortly after taking our seats some asshole with a mixed drink fell down the stadium seats and smashed thru us. If the railing hadn't been there, he would have been on his own downward spiral. His $7.50 mixed drink spilled all over me. I love going home smelling like booze. :)

The show itself was pretty typical Metallica. They wanted us to rock out to the Death Magnetic album, - but really everyone was there for the classics.

They played Ride The Lightning, One, Sanitarium, Master Of Puppets, Nothing Else Matters, Enter Sandman with an encore of Seek & Destroy. It was pretty classic Metallica.

Lars was a little douche.

Pine Tree Apple Orchard - White Bear Lake MN

We took a trip to the Pine Tree Apple Orchard - White Bear Lake, MN

The orchard offered hayrides, a cornmaze, pumpkin patch, pony rides & the most amazing baked apple items. - Apple pie, apple donuts, apple butter, apple cider, apple jam, apple pies, apple turnovers, apple syrup...and more! YUM.

After a tour of the pumpkin patch & run thru the cornmaze, we bought our honeycrips apples & ate carmel apples. It was pretty much all about the apples, except for Sam in the pumpkin patch.

A few pics from our trip:

Rice Lake State Park - Labor Day Weekend

With school about to begin, we thought it would be nice to take the kids on a back to school camping trip.
This was our first time staying at Rice Lake. The weather was absolutely beautiful for the 3 nights we spent camping.

Samantha found the largest puff-ball ever. "The Mother-Load" she called it.

We camped, hiked, canoed, cooked...and managed to get a little sleep.