Only A Stone's Throw Away: 2008

September 2, 2008

What time is it?

Does everyone have their trip faces on? Here are the first pictures of our family vacation in Omaha, NE. This is the morning we left Miles City for our 12 hour trek across the midwest. Surprisingly everyone looks pretty happy even though it is the butt crack of dawn (6 am). True Don Bockness style. It wouldn't have been a trip without leaving that early. My dad has always been famous for leaving very early and very few stops along the way to the destination. As you can see we were fairly loaded down on the way there, wait until you see the trip back!

2008 Southeastern MT Fair - A Scottish Fling

The girls had such a fantastic time at the fair this year. I promised them last year that I would take them to the fair on the night when you could buy the bracelet and ride as many rides, as many times as you wanted. THEY DIDN'T FORGET! It worked out great though. We took them out on Thursday night and they rode everything until it was dark. Abby hooked up with her friend Kinley so her mom and Brady and I walked around the fair and visited while the girls all rode. I think the best ride was the big huge slide. I didn't get any pictures though because my camera died! I loved seeing them on the race track ride. Abby and Maggie giggled and giggled every time they whipped around a corner. They were hilarious!

Maggie is Four!

Maggie turned 4 today. I can't believe she is already 4 years old and will start pre-school this year. She seems so little some days and then others it's like are you sure you're only 4?! We celebrated her birthday at Nanny and Papa's house. We ordered food from the Airport Inn and celebrated with Nanny Mary, Carol, Megan, Nanny's friends Sandy and Everett. It was fun and Maggie received many wonderful gifts. She and Abby are still playing with the toys, some days sharing are better than others!

Spectacular Firework Display!

We had cousin Quentin over for dinner tonight, steak, potatoes and corn all done on the grill. It was a fabulous dinner if I do say so myself. After dinner we went down by Jaycee park to light a few of our own fireworks and then sat back to enjoy the VFW Firework show. They did a good job this year. It didn't take quite as long as it has in the past. All in all it was a great 4th of July with just our little family.

Happy 4th of July!

Here are some photos of 4th of July 2008. It was just us this year. My mom and dad and my sister Stacey's family spent the week in Ennis with my sister Jamie's family. It was sad that we all couldn't be together. We did have a nice weekend though. It was really laid back. After the parade we went to Riverside Park ad spent time partaking in the festivities. These are some of the pictures. The girls got to paint on a big cardboard display which was sponsored by the Custer County Art Center. They were supposed to paint what the 4th of July meant to them. After that we wandered around. There were tons of booths setup with food and games. We ate some cotton candy, jumped in theblow-up thing (not sure what you call it), played with Coach Mcauliffe's parrot named Petri and finally sat down for some lunch. We ate lunch which was sponsored by the Baptist Church and the VFW. We also got to listen to some music from local artists while we ate our lunch. It really was fun and the girls had a blast.

August 20, 2008

Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow - 06/29/08

I think I was seriously sleep deprived at the farwell brunch. These are the only photos I ended up with. Oh well. There were some great pictures, even better times and I will truly miss everyone. Hopefully we won't have to wait another 10 years to see each other again. I love the class of 88. They Rock!

It Seems Like Yesterday! - 06/28/08

When the Saturday night festivities were over we all headed uptown to the Texas Club. We had fun playing pool, darts, visiting and drinking. I left the bar early and went and got the kids from my aunt's house. I took them home and put them to bed. I took a shower, was in the bathroom picking at my face and then headed in for bed when I heard a comotion outside. I saw a strange person in a hoodie walk across the lawn and then I heard people in my porch so I came down the steps. Mind you I am in my robe and in all my glory!

Brady decided to bring everyone back to our house after the bars closed. I had no food, but no fear Wal-Mart is open 24 hours so Rachelle M. stopped and got chips and dips and frozen pizza. Keri and I spent the evening cookingg pizza. I sound mad but I had fun! We finally shooed everyone out at about 4:30 am. The birds were chirping and the sun was rising. We had to be up the next day by 10 for the family brunch in the park. I think we did pretty well. I was really proud of Brady! Three late nights of drinking and up early! It's jut like we were kids again. Of course it took us the next month or so to fully recover! LOL!

Class of 1988 - Brady didn't make it into this photo. He was too nervous trying to get ready for the memorial video that he helped put together. It was in memory of the classmates they have lost. It was really nice but very sad. I don't think there was a dry eye in the house. They will all be missed!

Sacred Heart Shammies - These were the kids from Sacred Heart Catholic School that had to transfer to Custer their Junior year. They closed the high school jsut as I was graduating from 8th grade so I had to transfer to Custer my Freshman year. Our transition was easy. We had a great class. I think it was a bit harder for this class but they still did great.

That's not where that goes!

Keri! What are you doing?!

The sprinkler!

Todd, Jody, Andy, Brady

Eric Bechtle, Alyssa Taylor, Joanie Curry Bechtel (Bechtel's are my sister Stacey's in-laws. Joanie is Steve's sister. They are so nice. I spent quite a bit of time visiting with them. Wish we would have had more time and a quieter place to visit.)