Stars Win

A follow up to last night. Modano was key in a big 3rd period come back & win. Here's a link to DMN's highlight video of last night's presentation.

Not often you see a 20 minute pre-game tribute. It's boiled down to about 3 minutes here:

http://www.dallasnews.com/video/dallasnews/sports/index.html?nvid=195212&shu=1

One sports entry

Yes, this is the family blog; however, from time to time, we all need our own little entry.

In just a few minutes, the Dallas Stars will honor Mike Modano as the greatest American born hockey skater. On November 7th, Modano broke the record for points, and last season he achieved the same mark for goals among Americans. That night he scored two great goals, second of which became the game winner in a 3-1 victory in San Jose.

The Dallas Morning News had a great fact filled pdf, which I’ll link here so long as it is active.

Amid a disappointing Bears season, and while the Stars shake things up to try to better their own slow start, this is a great accomplishment to celebrate. It’s unfortunate that Dallas will not fill the house on Thanksgiving eve to see it done. I know that mom, Blaze, & I will all be watching!

Congrats to Mike (like I know him or something!) &

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Wounded Nuts!

Firstly, since the dog is sometimes more loved than I am, let me start by saying HE'S FINE!

That said, Peanut has a cut on his paw pad. He's been licking it like, well, it was going out of style. We managed to see a vet today, and while wonderfuly clean, it was never going to heal if he kept at it. So, until Monday he's a pink-footed basset mix, who's milking his bandages for all the milage he can!

You see how he posed for these pictures, but actually, the minute we got back from the vet, he ran, found a squirl, and brought it to me for some fetch. Then I got the camera out, and suddenly, it hurt soooooo bad! Who says he's not a kid like any other!

Just Married!

Finally, right?

It was an amazing weekend in Chicago, and from the feedback I’ve received, everyone had a wonderful time.

Personally, it didn’t start out wonderfully, but a bad starter in an airplane, caused an extra, unexpected delay to my Bloomington connecting flight. That made it possible to make the trip in one day as my first flight was delayed many times over due to earlier weather issues.

Luckily enough, I was traveling well ahead of the wedding & to the best of my knowledge; no one else had any travel issues.

Another great story from the weekend is the 12:30 AM wedding day fire alarm. I have vague memories of it, but hey, it was my last night, err, early morning of freedom! The wedding party & family did a great job stepping in to ensure that bride and groom did not meet. My understanding is that Robin was less than thrilled about the interruption to her beauty sleep, but by the ceremony, you’d have never guessed she missed a wink!

On the more serious side, the weather was perfect, six months of planning fell perfectly into place, & all went well.

Thank you to everyone who was able to spend part of their weekend with us, it meant the world to us both.

We finished our weekend at the Lazy Cloud Bed & Breakfast. I’ll have more wonderful things to say about them in a future post, but just know that we completely expect to spend another fall or spring weekend there and completely recommend it as a great get-a-way location. (Tell them we said so if you go – I’m all for some marketing kick-back!!)

We do not feel that the World Wide Web is the appropriate location for our wedding photo album, but have no fear, pictures are still accessible to any of you who want to check them out. Please let me know via email or a comment to this post if you would like to be on the picture distribution list. (Many of you have, and if so, no need to do so twice, the list has already started.)

Also, if you have pictures to share, please send them my way. Along with doing so, let me know if you are just sharing with me or want me to pass them along to the distribution list mentioned above.



Finally, a thank you to Phil, Weezie, & Tom Pitts for making the wedding night all the more memorable! :o)

School Pictures

Ok, yes, these should have been up before the wedding, but, um, well, I was planning a wedding.....