Family

I will admit I stole this picture of my sister in law's blog but I wanted it! It's a great picture of my brother's and their beautiful wives and children! It is hard having them live so far away but they are always a huge part of our lives. We miss you all and love you lots!

O-H-I-O

Kyla and I


Scott and I


Kevin and Scott


The Shoe


Script Ohio!! The best part of the game!


Me and Brutus!!


Kevin & Kyla

September 20th we made our way to Columbus to visit our good friends Kyla and Kevin Burns, for our annual Buckeye game!!! We started the morning nice and early with breakfast and then headed to campus to have a few cocktails at 8:30 in the morning! The Varsity Club is THE coolest place to go before the games! It's an outside bar and it is just a lot of fun!!! I beg Kevin and Kyla to take us there every time!

We had pretty warm weather and I again was overdressed for the day! At least I wasnt wearing my Uggs and long underwear, like the year before!

The Bucks beat Troy 28-10!!

The Fester Twins

Ella (on the left) and Kate Fester

The Fester girls have arrived. The babies were born on September 9th via c-section. Kate Ainsley was born at 3:43p.m. and weighed 5lbs 11oz and 18.5 inches long. Ella Cadence was born at 3:42p.m. and weighed 6lbs 9oz and was 19.2 inches long.

Tara and I went up to the hospital to visit Erin, Joey and Grant on Wednesday and we got to hold the girls. They were so tiny!

Erin somehow kept those girls in for a whopping 37 weeks!

Congratulations to the Fester family! We are so excited for your family!

Allie Lewand is here!

My brother Adam and his Wife Veronica welcomed their beautiful baby girl on August 27th, a little earlier than expected but Adam and Veronica were ready for their little girl!

Allie weighed 6lbs 6 oz and was 19 inches long.

Congratulations Adam & Veronica! We can't wait to come visit you guys in the spring and see our new niece! We love you!

Crystal Lake Cottage

I think our purchase at the St. Al's auction this year was our best purchase yet! Not that we don't love our kayaks! A group of us bid on a week up at a cottage on Crystal Lake. It was a relatively cheap vacation for what we paid! The week of August 23rd - 30th, Jeff, Mary Beth, Christina, Mike, Scott and I headed up for a week of sun and fun! John made the trip up with the kids for a few days and they seemed to enjoy the water and smores!

We had lots of good times, cold cocktails and great weather. We were up there for 6 days and it only rained once and for a brief time, we definitely lucked out with the weather. Every other day was sunny and beautiful. I don't think C and I left the beach any longer than it would take to go to the bathroom and get another drink!

We brought the pups up with us and although that can be more work than it's worth I think they had a blast..after that first day they pretty much slept wherever we were, whether it be on the beach or at our many bonfires!

There was lots of fris-beer and I must say the dumb game is growing on me!!

Dear Lord, I am not ready for another football season...

However, with Browns football comes glimpses of Mr. Quinn..

Unfortunately, the Browns and Buckeye seasons are upon us!?!?!? It's weird because I LOVE football season, especially Buckeye Football but my wonderful husband and most of his family (Jen, Suz and Ellen excluded) pretty much remove all the fun aspects that come with being a spectator...

But before the season fully gets under way I do want to say:

"Here we go Brownies, Here we go, Woof Woof!!!"



AND

"Go Bucks!! O-H-"

Irish Fest 2008 - Milwaukee, WI

Scott and I


Bag Pipes!!


Christina & Kyla


Scott & Kyla


All of us, having a cocktail at the Brewery


Mike & Christina


Kyla and I at Mo's Irish Pub


Scott and I taking in some Irish tunes


The Guys


Jackpot and his cocktail of choice vodka tonics


Kevin, Kyla and Jackpot


Not sure where the hell I was when this was taken, either in the bathroom or getting more fried ruben rolls!


Kevin and Jackpot getting more beer for the goup


Jackpot munching on some popcorn at the Miller Time Pub


Scott sober..or NOT


Mike rolling out of the elevator after a day of sun and beer..

The Hagley's, Hormuth's and Burns's got to experience Milwaukee and Irish Fest last weekend! It was a blast! Friday Mike, Christina, Kyla and Kevin made the road trip to Milwaukee and Scott and I jumped on the Lake Express Ferry and took that over to Milwaukee. The ferry was a first time experience for both Scott and I and it was overall rather enjoyable. Definitely better than the 6.5 hour car drive it would have been. The ferry only took 2.5 hours, there was a movie, food and cocktails!

After we arrived we tried to hit up the Lakefront Brewery tour but that wasn't going to happen because it was packed. Shortly there after we headed to Mo's Irish Pub, to keep with the theme of the weekend, plus I was starving! Mo's was a lot of fun and we got to see Michael Phelp's win his 7th gold! The entire bar was cheering!

On Saturday after we got ready we headed to Irish Fest around 12:30 pm. It was the begining of a great but long day. Many beers (wine for me) we headed home to get ready for dinner. The guys, ok mostly my wonderful husband, were a little how should I describe it, drunk. As you can see by the pictures...

After the girls cleaned up, because the guys had no desire to do so, we headed to the Capital Grill for a very nice ($$$) dinner. After dinner we headed to the Miller pub for those who still needed to keep drinking and then called it a night.

The orange shark in the pictures is Jackpot. He was our companion after Kevin won him in the arcade Saturday morning. Jackpot fit in rather well with the group.

Overall, Irish Fest was a great time and it looks like we will be going back next year because we won 4 tickets to Irish Fest 2009!!

I will be posting more pictures once I get them from Kyla..