We’ve made it a summer tradition for the last few years to go to the Skyview drive in theater in Bellville, IL. Its a fun way to see a movie and different from the normal experience. The movies were a miss this year, but the company was great. This year’s treat of choice was Bugels … Continue reading “Skyview With Browns – 8/21/2015”
The neighbors were going to Sky Zone and invited my kids. Of course they wanted to go, so we all ended up with this little neighborhood party. The other dad went in and jumped with the kids, while I opted to go to Panara and get some programming work done. But the kids were quite … Continue reading “Sky Zone – 8/16/2015”
Jake and Robin sold their house, and were moving to a new neighborhood in St. Louis. Like I would for any of my friends, I offered my back to help him move. So the whole family showed up at his old house to load up the moving truck! Jake bought pizza and some soda that … Continue reading “Metheny Moving – 8/14/2015”
I occasionally leave a unicycle in the office. Today, Chad LaCroix gave it a go. While he wasn’t a natural, I wasn’t worried that he was going to fall right over and hurt himself! On the other side of the office, we have people cutting donuts in half. We made sure to get photos because … Continue reading “Unicycles and Half Donuts – 8/11/2015”
My neighbor Jesse asked if he could have a bail of hay that we had in the driveway under a tarp. I was quite happy to share with him. However, he came back a few minutes later letting me know that the bails were crawling with roaches! Sure enough we went over there and there … Continue reading “Roach Motel – 8/4/2015”
I love paddling the MR340 race, but it didn’t work out this year. Instead, I re-worked the race tracking site RaceOwl. In order to ensure the site worked good, I sat on the sidelines and babysat the website. I’m glad I did as there were a few hiccups that needed to be worked out. As … Continue reading “Missouri River 340 – 7/31/2015”
The last weekend in July is the annual Stream Team picnic. We have been going for several years and the kids are quite fond of it. The activities keep the kids happy. Our family tends to do well in the canoe races and gets too many trophies. If that were not enough, the raffle is … Continue reading “Stream Team Picnic – 7/25/2015”
The last day of our vacation, and we stopped in Memphis to visit the Fleck family. They graciously hosted us at their house for food and great conversation. This day was a blur. Our visit was great, but St.Louis was pulling us home. We took less photos and just focused on getting back to our … Continue reading “Florida Vacation Day 10 – 7/12/2015”
Our family vacation this year was set for Florida. We were going to see one Disney park and one Universal Studios park and a few other things. First thing to do was drive there. We planned to make it a 2 day trip each way to break it up for the kids. We started driving … Continue reading “Florida Vacation Day 1 – 7/3/2015”
Danelle went to her 20 year high school reunion this month and found a photo of herself. I did some serious unicycling including getting a water bottle installed. My parents came for a visit. And I gave up on my BBQ grill, or did it give up on me? Hogan Haake