Snuggling Sweetie

Daisy has always had a knack for finding the coziest spots around our home. If the sun is shining in, she's likely sprawled out in the sunlight for her nap. Here are a few of our recent favorites of her doing what she does best...being snuggley!

This one has a bit of a story with it. I had gone to a Women's event at a church in town where a co-worker of mine was speaking. She spoke on the book of Esther and her story. The talk that night was fairly brief, so there were parts of the story I didn't catch the first time through. So I looked it up in my own Bible that weekend. This picture was the result of me leaving it unattended. Daisy loves to plant herself directly on top of things...and if it's in the sun, that's just an added bonus!

A common sight on a sunny day. She doesn't appear to be concerned with acting like a lady, now does she? Her front paw always seems to be up by her face when she sleeps, just like the first picture earlier on in this posting.

Another common pose of hers. The loveseat on which she is perched is at the top of our stairway. She oftentimes is there to greet us as we come home! She normally gets up and has a big yawn and stretch, then is ready to greet us and take in all the attention. Daisy is quite the kitty!

Daisy's bed

It's been a while since I've posted anything on Daisy, so I thought I'd do a couple posts this week on her. She continually keeps us laughing at her funny poses and cute personality. This first post is all about her in her pet bed. We've had it since we adopted her, but she uses it a lot more at the townhouse here than ever before! Here are a few of our recent favorites of her and her crazy positions in her kitty bed.

All curled up

Just about tipping out, but she doesn't seem to mind!

Snuggled up with her kitty

More lake pictures!

I'm finally now posting the rest of the Labor Day weekend pictures! This post is mostly funny pictures of Christopher interacting with the rest of the family.


At the lake, there is a kid's inner tube with Donald Duck on it. CJ found it and chose to wear it the only way that made sense to him...around his neck instead of around his waist!
These next 2 are of CJ and LeAnn playing around! At one point, we were playing keep-away and LeAnn was hiding it behind her back. CJ had a fun time running around her and trying to get it from her! He then was lying on the ground on top of it and told LeAnn to "mow" on him with his toy mower. Crazy kid!

My Dad also got in on the fun and got the inner tube and got CJ to laugh by wearing it as a hat! Here's a couple cute pictures of that. Dad can always get a good smile and chuckle from CJ!

Labor Day

Last Monday, we headed to my grandparents' lake cabin northeast of Fergus to "winterize" things and get the lifts and dock out. The guys in the family did a wonderful job with the heavy lifting and maneuvering to get everything out safely. They were assisted at one point by 2 very brave young women who helped move the dock board sections out. Each of these sections were full of creepy-crawly spiders, but these brave gals kept lifting anyway! Here's the after-picture to prove they survived the gross spider encounters.

Speaking of Shelley and Carrie, here they are playing with CJ in the water. Shelley was skipping rocks and since she made it look so effortless, CJ thought he should do it too. He had less success than Miss Shelley, but it made for a cute picture anyway. Haha! I also found some wild daisy-type flowers growing on the shoreline, so thought I should include those too. Pretty!

Part of putting away all the summer gear included moving the picnic tables back up to the shed area. Grandpa, being the creative tinker-er that he is, figured out a way that took the lifting out of the process completely. Tie a rope around 2 of the bottom posts of the table and hitch that up to the back of the riding mower and wah-lah! Those picnic tables were moved in record time! Here are a couple pictures of that crafty solution in action!

More Labor Day pictures to come in the near future!

Weekend Getaway!

A couple weekends ago, B&I took a trip to Minneapolis. We went to the Science Museum on Saturday, then to the State Fair on Sunday! The weather was beautiful both days and the getaway was a great time to relax and not think about work back home!

One of the big reasons we wanted to go to the Science Museum was a Titanic exhibit that is there. We couldn't take pictures inside the exhibit, so there aren't any pictures to share from that. But it was fun when we entered the exhibit, we were each given a "Boarding Pass" of a real passenger aboard the ship back in 1912. B was Mr. Frederick Goodwin and I was Mrs. Nellie Baumgardner. Throughout the exhibit, they had artifacts and stories of passengers and what life was like back then. We really enjoyed it!

Here's a picture of B at one of the regular Science Museum exhibits, dealing with sound waves and piano tones. It was pretty neat! And I thought it was a good chance to get a picture of B at a piano. Haha!!

Sunday we went to the State Fair, which we always enjoy going to at the end of the summer. We had our fill of fried goodies (mini donuts and cheese curds!) and enjoyed listening to some live music too! One fun surprise was seeing that there was a parade going on in the fairgrounds. We got closer and I was then surprised to see that it was the U of MN marching band! Our first thought was to see if 2 of my cousins, Trevor and Reid, happened to be marching...and yes, they were!! We followed them along the parade route for a while and got a couple quick pictures! It was so fun to see them!! We ended up not seeing them when the parade was over, though. They must have gotten mixed in with the rest of the 189,000 people that attended the Fair that day!! And yes, that's an official number, according to the State Fair website. Haha!

And to end this lengthy entry, here's a picture that we took of ourselves at one point when we were tired of walking on a hot day. We stopped at one of the bandstands and listened to some live music for a while and relaxed in the shade. It was a great weekend together!

Brent and Shelley!

Happy Birthday to 2 of my dear cousins...Brent and Shelley! It was Shelley's birthday on Saturday and it was Brentie's today! If you guys weren't already my relatives, I'd sure want you as family!! You are both such special people and I hope you both enjoyed your birthdays! Looking forward to celebrating each of you with the rest of the family on Labor Day! Love you lots!!

Here's one of the more recent favorites of Brent and Shelley. Ryan is another favorite of mine and since he's the big brother to these 2 birthday characters, he's in some of the pictures for this birthday blog...lucky duck. :)

Here's another good one of the 3 Rogness kids!

I went through some of my older pictures and came across 2 favorites of Shelley. This first one I just thought was cute and very Shelley...smiling and vibrant!

This next one has a bit of a story. One year a couple years ago for Shelley's birthday, Carrie and I gave her a bit of a gag-gift...including a gigantic hot pink poofy bow. She used to wear those a lot when she was little. We came across one and thought she needed one in case she ever missed them at the back of her head. :)

For this, Brent...I apologize. :) I just happened to catch you in one of those moments! Feel free to flaunt any embarassing pictures of me!! Haha!!

For those of you who have read Carrie's blog...she references a picture where the Rogness kids are laughing at a picture that I took. Here is that picture!! Brent has always had the funniest facial expressions in pictures! This one is especially funny to me! It's also funny because he's sitting on Shelley and you can barely see her laughing behind Brent, but she's peeking out!! How funny!

I hope you both had birthdays full of fun memories with family and friends! Love you!