The Froooozen Tundra ....

... ok, well maybe not frozen in the middle of October, but that is what you think when you hear Lambeau Field.

This past weekend, after a couple of years of talking about it, our family went to everyone's first (except Dad) Packers game at Lambeau field. When we were discussing which game to go to there was only a couple of choices due to my brother's work schedule and then after we found out we were expecting we decided that a November or December game might not be a great idea either. So, we got tickets to the Packers vs Colts game October 19th at 3:15PM.

We decided to make a day of it. The whole family (8 of us) left Cedarburg at 9:00AM so that we could go to the Packer's Hall of Fame and get some lunch before the game. Really interesting to see how a team got started in nowhere Green Bay. We also got to see the three Super Bowl trophies.

We ate at Curly's (Lambeau) Pub inside the stadium. Excellent food, I had a heart attack on a plate which was excellent. 1/2 lb hamburger, saurkraut, and a smoked sausage on top. Oh... and deep fried cheese curds as an appetizer.

Then the game. Our seats were awesome, 45 yard line maybe 50 feet from the sideline. I was surprised by the number of Colts fans at the game (not that I can blame them for wanting to come to a game at Lambeau) but they were quickly drowned out by a very loud home crowd, that only got louder after the first interception return for a touchdown, but went absolutely crazy after the second 99 yd return for TD.

All in all, I really don't think that we could have a better first experience at Lambeau.

More pictures can be seen here.

It was a very long day for this pregnant girl, but totally worth it!! I really enjoyed the Hall of Fame. With being a Packer fan for only about 6 years, it was great to see where the team got thier start. Seeing the Super Bowl Trophies and rings was pretty cool. Hopefully we'll add another in the next 10 years : ) It was a great game and a great day spent with family at the infamous Frozen Tundra, and the fact that the Pack beat the Colts.....PRICELESS!!

Timing the Market

So I know that most of you don't find my posts as exciting as Shawnna's (dang pregnancy bias) but I going to keep posting anyways.

The last couple of weeks have been kind of interesting with the huge roller coaster ride that the stock market has been doing, but what is interesting is people's reaction to it. Listening to people at work talk about taking all of their money out of stocks and waiting for the "bottom" of the stock market before they put it back in.

If it was that easy I think everyone would be doing that. But the risk is that you wait too long and you don't get your money back in in time. Here is link to an article about what your return would be if you missed just the best 5, 10 or 20 stock return days. By just missing the 10 best days in almost 10 years, your return would drop from 8.4% to 3.4%. That is a lot of money to give up to try and "beat" the system.

If you still think that you can time the market, try your luck at http://www.chartgames.com/ which allows you to try and buy and sell stocks at historical positions based on stock charts. It is pretty interesting and shows how difficult it is to "time" the market.

So us, we will continue saving just like we have been, realizing that the same amount of money is buying more shares now which will help in the long run.

Ok, I'll get down off of my soapbox now.

I see your lips moving, but all I hear is Blah ,Blah, Blah. : ) I love you honey : )

26 year wait

So this weekend, I got to experience something that hasn't happened since I was 2 years old.... playoff baseball in Milwaukee. The last time the Brewers were in the playoff was 1982 with the likes of Yount, Cooper , Gantner, Molitor and Fingers.

I have been a Brewer's fan for as long as I can remember. Some of my earliest memories are of watching the Brewers on TV and listening to them on the radio. I have witnessed many many years of extremely bad baseball, but the last couple of years, you could see that things were starting to click.

The last two years, as it has looked like there is a possibility that they could make the playoffs, the Brewers have made a small number of playoff tickets available for people who enter into an online drawing. Well, last year, even though my entire family put their names in, nobody got drawn. Well this year, I got drawn for the division series. Through a slight misunderstanding (my screw up) I bought tickets for Home Game 2 (Game 4), which after the Brewers lost the first two games in Philly were looking a little doubtful. But Saturday night the Brewers won game 3 and I was off to Wisconsin.

So, I left Indiana at 10:30PM Sat to drive to Wisconsin for the 12PM game on Sunday. The atmosphere at the game was awesome, nothing like 40,000 Brewers fans (maybe 20 Philly fans) screaming and banging inflatable "thundersticks" for 9 innings.


Unfortunately, the Brewers couldn't make it two wins in a row and their season was over. So, back to Indiana I drove making it back at 10:30PM on Sunday.

So, 24 hours, 600 miles, 18 gallons of gas, 4 hours of sleep, 4 homers by the Phillies, 2 runs by the Brewers, 1 new hat and 26 years of waiting all added up to one awesome experience that I hope to repeat next year.

Pregnancy Post-27 weeks

Over the past week, I've had quite a few people who do not live near us ask how the pregnancy is going. So I thought I'd do an update.

Everything is going great! I feel good, have energy and am feeling good in my body. Dan and I both feel so blessed to be having such an easy time and are enjoying every minute of it.

The baby is moving like crazy these days! One morning around 4 am it seriously felt like there was a party going on in my uterus and I could not get back to sleep for about 2 hours. Any other day I would have been upset that I couldn't sleep, but instead, I lay there and enjoyed the moments in the dark, snuggled up to my husband feeling our baby explore. I wish Dan had been awake to feel it too. Often, the times when the baby is the most active Dan is at work. When we are together, I feel movement and kicks and when Dan touched my belly it stops.

We have a few names picked out, but noting definite yet. We have decided to wait until after the baby is born to decide. So not only will the gender be a surprise, so will the name!

And for your viewing pleasure.....a picture of me, 25 weeks pregnant.




Sure I've looked better, but I get home before Dan and change clothes as soon as I walk in the door.