Green Bay Packers

Santa and the boys (Mommy too!)

Well, it’s almost that time of year again, the Christmas tree is already up (actually we have two this year!), the lights are going up on the house, and the boys had their first sit on Santa’s lap.  (I wonder what they asked Santa for this year?  Hmmmmm…)   Regardless of what they ask for, one thing they will be getting is a spot on the incredibly long and ridiculous waiting list for Packer season tickets.  The letters adding them to the list (they will be something like 75,000th on the list!) will go out in the mail today.  Here is a link to a great article about the list from the October 15th, 2007 Sport Illustrated. So if they’re lucky, their kid’s kids might get the tickets, but who knows, and its cool to be on the list anyway!

We took the boys to get 6 month portraits taken recently too.  I know, if you’re keeping track, they’re 7 months old now, but these were taken when they were just over 6 months old.  At least the photos are here before their 1st birthday(s), right!?

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with Julie’s parents and sister Diane.  We have a lot to be thankful for, always, but we feel especially blessed this year with our boys, each other, and our whole family.  There was turkey of course, and lots of it, along with all the other essential Turkey Day accoutrements, including an excellent (tape delayed of course) Packers Lions game.  GO PACK!  A side note here:  I’m slightly depressed that the Packers lost last night to the Cowboys, and about Brett Favre’s injuries, but more upset at the NFL because I couldn’t even see the game delayed since it wasn’t available on TV here…  Mr. Goodell needs to get his head out of his…

…anywhoo, we have done a lot of landscaping around the house and I managed to get a big chunk of our “new” fence painted with a new Wagner Power sprayer (why I didn’t spend the $70 on that a long, long time ago, I will never know!)  Now the fence looks great from the street with some pine garland and red bows Julie and Diane put up while I was away.  But, I think it will be spring before the rest of the fence is completed (sorry Honey.)  I just returned from a week in Chicago at RSNA (that’s the Radiology Society of North America’s annual convention/show) where my business partner and I had a great deal of success promoting our business, ORQA, LLC.  In fact, it was more successful than either of us imagined and we have garnered a lot of support from vendors and a lot of interest with customers.  That’s great and it means we have a lot to do, as if we didn’t already.  Being away from home for a week was really tough on me though.  I’m glad Julie’s parents stayed for the week to help take care of them.  I think Tanner and Tucker grew a whole bunch while I was gone, and they started putting their feet in their mouths while I was gone too.  They seem to have a great appreciation for their big toes!

Well, this is just a quick post to get some pictures up here for everybody and a quick update too.  We are going to be getting some actual family Christmas pictures taken soon too (never too early right?  Ha!)

Oh yeah, I just got this via email and in case you never saw it, the following video is absolutley hilarious!

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NO, I am not in the video!

The adventure continues soon,

Roland