Rafting Pictures!

Joe is in the very front of the raft!

Rafting

Joe returned from his rafting trip on Monday night (well, really Tuesday morning by the time he got home) and had to be at work a few short hours later. He went with a group of guys from Parkview that he used to work with. They spent a couple days south of Charleston, West Virginia camping and white water rafting. Sounds like they all had a blast... with only a few minor injuries, including Joe's wrist. He heard a pop in it while paddling. The Dr. thinks he could have ruptured a ganglion cyst or tore one of the tendons above his thumb. Hopefully neither will require surgery, but we won't know for sure till next week. Until then he has to fumble on and off this "brace" that keeps him from moving it too much and he is supposed to ice it a few times a day. If it's still hurting next week he'll get an MRI on it. Unfortuately it's his right hand which makes it even more difficult. (I'll try to add some pictures later)

Other than that the last few weeks have been mostly quiet. I've been trying to recover from some sinus/allergy issues I've been having... but I'm finally feeling a little better. Seems like everyones allergies are pretty bad right now and there are definitely some colds/flus going around.

Friday we leave for ATLANTA!! Yay!! to see Kirstin and Nathan. It's nice to live a couple hours closer now to shorten the drive a bit. We can't believe it's been a year since we've been down there. We definitely owe them a few trips.

Go Colts! :)

The Thursday night Colts game was awesome! We were so lucky to get such great seats, and we took in every moment of it that we could. What a beautiful stadium. It turned out to be a nice sunny evening after some storms in the morning so they had the roof and side window open. After the Star Spangled Banner a jet flew right over the open roof! I thought I'd get bored after the first quarter when most of the big players went out but it was still a great game. Hopefully we'll make it to another game (way up in the nosebleed section! :) Here are a few pictures from the game... the last one is a picture of Hank Baskett standing next to the head coach... I wonder if Kendra was there? :)

Hot Air Balloons...

Joe and I went to the state fair last night and watched the balloon lighting. There were 25 or so hot air balloons blown up. Once it got dark they lit them all up together and did the wave with them. It was really neat.

haha, and I just had to share this picture of Tommy and Parker too... they spend 98% of the time either avoiding eachother, or fighting, chasing, howling at eachother and biting eachothers throats... and then getting kicked out of the bedroom since once of us is usually trying to sleep. I guess at this nap time Parker wanted someone to snuggle with (Tommy is looking quite annoyed)... too cute.

Joe and I are really excited for the Colts game on Thursday. We got some very good seats from someone at work trying to sell their tickets. It is a pre-season game, but it will be the first time we've seen the new stadium, and probably the only time we'll ever get to sit in the 8th row at the stadium! Hopefully it will be a good game! Go Colts!

St. Pete Beach

Joe and I got home Thursday night from our little vacation to the beach. It was a great, relaxing week... other than finding our car in the airport parking lot with a dead battery... opps! We mostly spent the week laying around at the beach, eating, and drinking.... which was exactly what we needed for a few days!!

I took a lot of pictures, so I thought I'd share a few...

On the way there we had a connecting flight in Atlanta so Kirstin and my Dad (who was there visiting that weekend) brought us some breakfast (and mimosa's) and visited for a bit.... (I know, my big sis and Dad are awesome)

The bargain was Joe got the window seat to Atlanta, and I got it to Tampa... yeah.... this was my window seat....

This was our hotel... we ended up lucky and got a beach view even though we didn't pay for one because we were on the six floor

A little piece of heaven.....


Dinner at Crabby Bill's...


Sunset from the patio at Crabby Bill's

Handsomest guy I know




Beautiful.....

There were some fan chairs with parachutes we saw a few times at sunset... looked interesting

Our last evening....ahhhhh...... when can we go back??? :)

4th of July

So I'm only a little behind getting these pictures up. We had a great 4th of July weekend. Joe had to work till 3p on Saturday so after that we headed up to Wolcott to his parents for their festival. Unfortunately it was too cold and rainy so just about everything was done for the day and they ended up cancelling the fireworks. So Steve decided to set off some of his own for the girls and the rest of the crowd.

Here is part of the crowd waiting for the show to begin

Joe thought it'd be fun to hide behind a tree and throw a fire-cracker at Sue as she went by! :)

After the excitement wore off they decided to put them in a metal jug and pour some torch fluid in to liven things up... notice the torch in Steve's hand! Overkill maybe? :)

Maddison wore one of Joe's old football helmet's and wouldn't take it off till the fireworks were done

Joe's mom trying to show Maddison how fun sparklers were :)

On Sunday we went back home and found out Indy's fireworks had been cancelled too and they would be putting them off that night, so we went to the top of the parking garage at Methodist with Ash to watch them.

We are getting more excited about our Florida trip... I discovered we're actually staying in St. Pete... something I should have known since I booked the trip!!! Three shifts in a row this week and then we're off!! Wahoo!!!