First Day of School

Well Drew did it! He had his first day of pre-school!!! It went great for him. Sarah dropped him off around 8:50 and she said he was a little teary eyed. He could sense that she was leaving him. But the teachers were good and immediately had him get his [...]

Happy 30th Josh

We held Josh Peterson’s 30th birthday party at our house last night. It was a surprise party so everyone was hush hush about it for weeks. Steve and Darla took Josh out to eat while we all setup and got things ready in our basement. Many friends and family came and hung [...]

Sweeeep

Rodney and I went to the Cardinals/Cubs games on Friday and Saturday at the new Busch Stadium and had a blast. The Cardinals won both games, Saturdays ending being an exciting one where Gary Bennet had a walkoff double. We got their real early for both games and had a good time watching [...]

Brand new house, kinda

We visited my parents house last night in Manito, and boy does it sure look like a new house. Over the summer they had a pipe break while they were on vacation. No one found it for 4-5 days and it absolutely flooded their entire house. All flooring in the main level [...]

Meet the Teacher

We went in last night to meet Drew’s pre-school teacher for the first time last night. He’s been pretty forceful with “I’m not going to school” so far this summer. But after sitting down with Mrs. Mac at Good Shepeard, Drew seemed to warm up to the idea a little bit. He [...]

Happy 3rd Birthday Drew

Yesterday was my little boy Drew’s 3rd birthday! Wow how time flies. We had a very special day with Drew and he was absolutely worn out in the end. We woke up in the morning and gave him his big birthday present. We got him a wooden train table and track [...]

Disc Golfin

John Clausen and I took the evening and went out to Mcnaughton Park to play a round of disc golf last night. The kids and families were outside playing so we snuck out for an hour. We had a blast and both shot really well. I put up a -2 and John [...]

Congrats Coach Mott

Yesterday was an exciting day for Pekin Basketball. They hired my old high school coach, Dave Mott, to be their new Varsity head coach. Coach Mott was an unbelievable coach and a great teacher of the game back when I was at Midwest Central. He then moved on and turned the Limestone [...]

Happy Birthday Rodney/Mom

Today is my mom and brothers birthday!!! We are going to celebrate with them at Avanti’s tonight so I’ll update this again tomorrow.
Update: We ended up going to Avanti’s for a nice dinner. Than afterwards went to Coldstone for some ice cream. Fun night for sure! Happy Birthday again!

Neighborhood fun

Last night our family went over to Mark and Vicki’s house for a cookout and to swim. Most of the neighbors made it out there for burgers, brats, hotdogs and much more. After we ate, we swam, then played out on the cul-de-sac like usual. Alyssa and Drew loved the pool – [...]