What?

So my blog might have read "deleted" recently... I don't know what the deal was, but I tried to log in from TX and it asked me for a special password.  May be it didn't like me logging in from the middle of nowhere, but now I have things going.  Sorry about that.

Randomness

I know I've slowed down on the posts... life has been busy.  Next week we leave for TX for a week so hopefully I can post some vacation picks then.  Today was a big day at the Chateau, it was the opening games of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.  As some of my faithful readers may remember, we went to the 2006 World Cup in Germany.  That was pre-blog, but fun nonetheless.  We watched the first game at home, and then we went to the Nomad for the first half of France v. Uruguay.  It was a good time.  Here are some other pics of the past month.

Owen as Spiderman

Down by the lake

Owen's K3 Graduation

Liam's Baseball

7 Years

I know, I know... it has been over a month since a post.  Sorry about that, life has gotten really busy with only 3.5 days of school left.  This living in two houses thing isn't the best either.  But I digress...


Cathy and I have never been real good at celebrating all the days that the adoption people "say" you are supposed to celebrate.  May be that is because I don't remember celebrating my "homecoming" day or may be because we are too busy with life.  Today hasn't been much different except for reminding Liam that today was the day seven years ago that we picked him up at JFK International Airport and began the wild ride as parents.  I've looked through some photos and reminisced a little bit about what seems to be just yesterday.

First pictures of the little guy... he looks so harmless

The most famous picture of the crazy haired Liam

Liam in April 2003.  Cathy was upset his hair had fallen down

May 26, 2003 - D-day at JFK

Baptism

Gpas

3rd Birthday

The first sign we were in trouble, a little ingenious guy... ignore the wine bottles in the sink

First day meeting Owen

First day of kindergarten... he looks a little confused

First round of golf last summer

Spelling Bee this spring... 6th place!

Easter Break

Today is the last day of Easter break for us.  The only thing that doesn't make this day a poor one is the great weather AND the final round of the Masters (which long time readers will recognize is Rob's greatest day of the year). 

It has been a fun break with weather somewhere between 80 degrees and snowing and back to 75 degrees today.  Here is a little photo expose on what we've been up to.

Sports
On Easter Sunday we went to the Milwauke Wave's MISL Championship soccer game.  We had great seats and despite going up 6-0 the Wave lost 12-6.

On Wednesday we also went to our long awaited Milwaukee Bucks game.  Owen had been talking about the Bucks for some time and wore his jersey religiously.  Unfortunately, the two jerseys we have are of two players who were injured and didn't play (Michael Redd & Andrew Bogut).  The Bucks won, we got on the jumbotron, our section won free Quarter Pounders with Cheese, and free Bango bobble heads).

In our seats, we were there a little early.

National Anthem

Owen intent on watching.

Game action.

Hanging Out

Home Improvement

We also spent some time at the B-town house working on things we should have improved while we lived there.   I had some basement wall work to complete and it turned out really nice (see, should have done it when we lived there).  I had put shutters on a while ago but I had some outside work to do also.

Basement wall (White was the previous days work)

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone!  It is kind of a strange Easter as no family are around.  We went to church this morning and this afternoon we are going to the Milwaukee Wave MISL championship game.  Should be a fun time.  Here are a couple pictures of the Liam and Owen.

I'm Back!

I know, I know, I missed the ENTIRE month of March. That is the first time in three years of blogging that I've missed an entire month. Things got real hectic as the Chateau MOVED!!! Well, sort of. Being sick of driving, etc... we moved into a rental house in Milwaukee. The strangest thing about the whole deal is probably that it is the house I grew up in! Very weird, but only about 10-15 minutes from Risen Savior.

The Old Abode

I also wanted to keep everyone updated on Owen's progress.  He has gotten through all of his Dr. appointments and they seem to say everything is OK.  He does have a little white discoloration on the right side of his face, but nowhere near how bad it looked at first.  We are having a little difficulty not letting it get burned by the sun.  It seems to be a little red right now but the long term prognosis is an all clear with no scarring or discloration in the long term.  Amazing how the body heals.

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Lookin' Good

Spelling Bee Success

Liam was selected to participate in the WELS Area Primary Grade Spelling Bee from Risen Savior.  He got 35 of 50 correct on the initial in class spelling test.  We have had a really tough time getting him to practice and were basically forcing him to participate today.  I was worried he would go out in the first round.  Well, he did wonderful.  He was in the top 3 of his room's 16 students and made it to the finals with the top 6.  He was the first one out in the finals misspelling WHERE as W-E-R-E.  Oh well, he had a great time.  Below is a picture of him and his certificate/ribbon as well as a little video of him spelling NAME.

6th Place Ribbon & Certificate

In the finals!

Happy Guy!