Poor Debbie!!!! :(

If you have been reading the deluded comments at the end of my last post, you will notice that my nice, sweet sister Debbie (and Justin for that matter - though he is neither "sweet" nor my "Sister" - though I can see how you could be confused about the "sister" part) :) are convinced that the Flames are going to beat the Hawks... so much so that Debbie is going to appear on this blog wearing a Hawks jersey while burning her Flames one (ok - maybe not the last part but that would have been good to put in the bet too) :)


So we went to Minot yesterday. I dropped the girls off at the mall and then I hit (Literally) every motorcycle shop and Peavey Mart type place in town - it was the best shopping trip ever!!! :) I did not get much (no one really has anything in stock) but I did buy some riding boots - so that was nice. I also tried out a bunch of stuff that was overpriced (gloves and stuff at the Harley shop) that I can now order online from home.


And from the "Its a small world" department - we ran into our friends the Lawrences and the Davenports while there (well actually we heard the Davenports were there b/c they were coming back from Bismark so we planned to meet them) - then too we saw a bunch of other "Estevanites" that we recognized as well.


Anyway - check back to see a picture of Debbie wearing the jersey of a good team for once! Go Hawks!!!! :)

Go Hawks

Well - we just picked our family hockey pool. My sister and her husband are the big pushes behind this and it is a lot of fun - when I win - which I am going to do b/c I took at grand total of 6 Blackhawks in my 16 player pool (doesn't sound like much I know - but when 8 people are picking 16 players - to get 6 from one team is a lot).

The best part of this is that the Hawks play my sister's favorite team - the Flames - in the first round - so it will make that round interesting anyway. :) One of us will be happy at the end anyway!

I have sort of been a closet Blackhawk fan for years - I have a couple of jerseys - so it is time to "come out of the closet" so to speak and stand up and cheer for them.

GO HAWKS! (Booooo Debbie!!!!!..... and Justin for that matter) :)

Country Music - Wa?

So Sunday night I am cruising through the TV channels and I came across the "Academy of Country Music" awards.

Several years ago, after not listening to country music for a long, long time, I came across the exact same awards show and decided to watch it. That night I saw Keith Urban (singing "Days go By"), heard Sara Evans and got my first look at "Big and Rich" - and it totally blew me away.

That night made a country music fan of me again. In fact, it led to seeing Keith Urban live at "Countryfest" in Dauphin (still probably the best concert I have ever been to and one of the most fun nights ever) and to a whole summer of listening to "Selected" Big and Rich songs (Selected b/c some of them are too far over the line for me). In fact, I cannot drive through Montana without hearing the cool sounding harmonies of "Big and Rich" because they were the soundtrack to that entire vacation.

So I began watching the ACMs the other night with the same sort of anticipation - preparing to be blown away again ...... "Ooh - we are gonna hear something cool tonight!!!"

And I waited....... and waited....... and waited.......... NOTHING!!!!! NOT ONE GOOD, FUN, UPBEAT SONG IN THE ENTIRE THREE WASTED HOURS OF MY LIFE!!!!!! NOTHING!!!!! ZERO!!!!! SLOW - BORING - UNINTERESTING SONGS - BRUTAL LYRICS (and that was just the first two songs - it got worse from there)

The only 1/2 interesting song was "Shutting Detroit Down" by John Rich - a song all about the plight of the people who are losing jobs in the auto industry (Google that one - I really liked it). The rest of it was terrible!!!!

So needless to say...... I was not converted back to country music this night.

However, there must be some good stuff out there...... there has to be right??????? So - if you are a country fan, here is your assignment..........

Find me a good current country song! Just one or two. Anything from anyone. Send me a "Youtube" link or something.

That is it. Can you do it? Anyone????? Bueller? :)

Adventures with Animals

No the title of this blog does not related to Western Christian College's Homecoming (though - come to think of it....) :)

I am writing this at 9:11 am on Sunday and I have never seen everyone sooooo tired! We were at Homecoming in Regina and we did not have any "early nights". Friday night we hung out at Jen and Justin's and stayed up till 2 am and then last night..........

We left Regina at about 10 pm and started out for home. At about Corrine we came around a corner only to see something on the road - whether it was already dead or not I am not sure - but it was after we hit it. Skunk!!!!!! :( You know how you often smell a skunk and think, "Oohh - well it will go away soon"? Well this one just did not! The stink got worse and worse. Almost and hour later we stopped in Weyburn at 7-11 to get some snacks and as soon as I opened the door it smelled like we had dragged the skunk all the way from Corrine with us! The girls and I went inside - Sari sat in the van and she said it was so funny to watch people walk past - they would be talking and then "Eeeewww" and run away. By the time we came back out there was no one parked within 100 yards of us! :)

So we sucked it up and got going again - almost home - Sari and Megan are sleeping - it is getting to be about 12:15 am and I am thinking, "Well, we are almost home" and just then a huge buck (at first I thought it was a cow it was so fat) jumped out of the ditch and onto the road. So I slammed on the brakes - Sari woke up with a shriek (Seriously - I have never heard a sound like that before - I think the deer ran away not because of the van racing towards him but because of Sari's "Deer whistle" scream!). The kids screamed - junk flying everywhere - I am not sure what happened to the dog in the backseat - but we got stopped and the deer took off. So we took the last 10 miles or so a little slower and finally made it home.

When we went to get stuff out of the back of the van - I think we found the rest of the skunk! Somehow the smell was worse when we got home than it was in Weyburn! In fact, it was so bad that we did not even park in the garage - just left it outside so that it could air out. I have never smelled anything like that.

Speaking of never smelling anything like it.... did I mention that we saw some of our former classmates this past weekend? :) The reunion was fun - nice to see people again - but next time maybe we will go home in the daytime!