Birthdays

September is birthday month at the Chateau.  Liam's is on the 18th, mine on the 25th, and Owen's on the 29th.  Frankly, I get jipped out of my birthday.  I did, though, get permission to finally buy a PS3 for my birthday.  I still have to pay for it, but I'll take it.  Here are a couple pictures of the week.

Yes, this is AM and this is when Liam got us out of bed on his birthday.

Wide Awake

Opening our first gift...

8 years old

Opening gifts at Grandma's house

We had twinkie airplanes instead of a cake.

Helicopter!

First Trip to the Holy Land

No... we did not go to Jerusalem, but the other holy land - Lambeau Field.  For those who have never been, well, words cannot describe and I will not attempt to.  But for the familia Dusseau we made our first trip for Cathy, Liam, and Owen for the Packer Family Night.  It was a fun day, we tailgated, went in for the warm ups and scrimmage, and then some really, really cool fireworks launched from the roof of the stadium in a 360 degree spectacle.  It was a good time had by all and only having to drive back to Milwaukee was very nice.  Here are some pictures of the night.

Cheesehead Owen

To the game...

View from our seats.

Not sure what Owen is doing?

Acting silly...

Summer Fun

I know, you checked back and surprise! Rob has updated the blog.  I had this post ready about a month ago and then Liam hopped on the computer and closed out my window in the middle of a picture upload.  I guess that is a curse of a child who is old enough to surf the net.  Anyway, I hope to "get back on the proverbial horse" and keep things updated again and hopefully my faithful fans will return.

We have had some summer fun.  Liam was especially busy with golf and baseball.  We also took a tour of Miller Park the this summer.

Owen in the dugout.

Hopefully I can take this picture when they are older.

Owie in the golf cart.

Liam on the putting green at golf lessons.

Liam got to play a round from the forward tees.

With his new hat.

Batter Up!

Running to first base...

Everybody has to get a trophy...

Rain, Rain, Go Away

It was an interesting night last evening as the earth began to open, and the seas... err, wait, that was the OTHER flood.

Anyway, you may have seen Milwaukee on the national news today as we got a whole lot of rain in a little bit of time.  It was quite the spectacle.  The Chateau Dusseau, Milwaukee location, got about a foot of water in the basement and when the busses drove by the breakers (not an exageration) hit the second step of the front door. 

Cathy has been busy cleaning up today as I went to school to see how the 4 ft. of water in the elevator shaft was doing.  Fun times and more rain tonight they say.  Here are a couple of pictures.

The Chateau... flooded.

Looking toward the backyard.

The basement, early on.

Sherman Blvd.

The neighbors van...

Looking south on Sherman Blvd.

Lots of stalled cars, the breakers came from the busses.

Looking south again on Sherman Blvd.

Yes, that is the Fire Dept. with a boat behind their truck.

All Is Good

Well, I made the jump to the new iPhone 4 this past week. I'm happy to report that I haven't had any problems with the "death grip" or anything else. The major good thing was that when I synced it with my old one, all the icons for apps that weren't standard went away. When I resynced them I hadn't lost any data from games I had played in the past. You can not imagine the anger if I would have lost that high Yahtzee score or my Sailboat Pro score... some heads would have rolled. BUT, all is good.

Videos of Owen

Here are a couple videos of Owen from TX.  He actually did eat the pancake.

TX 2010

I thought tonight that it would be a good night for a post... I know its been a while, but I have been a little busy.  Next week finishes up a class that puts me at 1/4 of the way finished with my PhD course work.  No need for congratulations (not that anyone was going to do that), but that still puts me at t-minus 5 years.

We spent a week in TX visiting Cathy's dad a few weeks ago.  Here are a few pictures from the trip which was highlighted by some fishing, tubing, and a jet ski. 

Liam caught one!

Playing DS

Swimming

A big, ugly catfish.

The yearly cowboy picture.

On the boat...

With Grandpa