Where did the summer go?

As usual, our summer was pretty much chock-full of fun and play time. Here's a preview of things that have happened since Easter...

Well, there was lots of time at the land...Sometimes just the two of us, and sometimes with friends. Mom and Dad Burger were able to come up for a weekend with us, and we had a great time by the fire, just talking and having cocktails. We had our usual Memorial Day party, which was pretty laid back this year, and we scraped together a couple of newby campers, Mike and Tina and their doggie. We have to go up one last time and clean up and winterize the place.






Also this summer, our house was robbed. Not cool. Our bathroom screen was slashed by some punk kid in the middle of the day and they stole our laptop and Todd's PSP and all of Seth's dollar coins. The whole experience was pretty creepy, and one of the worst parts about it was that there was a forensics cop and regular cop hanging out in our extremely unsanitized bathroom, which, for me, was mortifying. They dusted for fingerprints and we never heard another word.
















Then Brent moved to Colorado. That was really sad...now he watches the Tigers, Redwings and Lions all by himself. Here are some shots from his party.





















Then Bleu launched his awesome boat that he built with his own bare hands. The family all went to see him off, and Seth and I brought an airplane size vodka bottle to smash over the boat, only it was a plastic bottle, so it didn't work out quite as planned. Also, the motor Bleu used didn't have a reverse option, so once you were going, you were going! No stoppin' ya! Which is all fine and dandy unless the rope gets caught on the dock. Mom and I got to be in the new boat for that fiasco, but Bleu pulled it off at the last second and saved our lives. Good job brother!

















Then I met Tara's horse, who was very sweet and didn't mind me, Jill and Emily all piling on her...
And that brings us to the end of June, when we went to California and that'll be a different post all together!

What happened??!?!

We have been busy with the holiday (St. Patrick's Day, not Easter) and buzzing around spending time with various family and friends.

A couple of weeks ago we went to Charlene and Wade's for a party in honor of Myles and Melisa's engagement. Here are a couple of pictures I snatched from Andrea's blog...

We headed to Plymouth after the party to hang out with Scott and Amy, and Amy and I were lucky enough to witness "nerds in action". Scott is the sweetest thing, and he's so quiet, but I can't seem to help myself from teasing him....and he's always a good sport.

While they quietly played a few games of chess and Snatch, Amy and I hung out, watched TV and compared notes on our nerdy husbands. It was a very nice and relaxing evening, and I think the Scott one guy that Seth can bond with having never gotten shitfaced with him. Isn't that nice?

Then on Sunday, Seth and I met up with Dennis at a little pub, and Seth dropped me off for some daddy/daughter chill time. We went to the MGM casino, where I very quickly lost $80.00 but still had fun enjoying a beer and smoke with Papa. Then we went to the Pistons/bulls game where the Pistons FINALLY won after being humiliated by the Bulls for several of the previous games.

Dennis also won a lottery among season ticket holders for a meet and greet after the game, so of course we had to go shopping for souvenirs that could be signed by whomever was assigned to greet us after the game.

With about 5 minutes left of the game, we got to walk down to the floor and through the tunnel to one of the press rooms, and while it took FOREVER for things to get rolling, it totally ended up being worth it.

Here is who we hung out with... John "Spider" Sally...

Juan Dixon...

This is me and papa chillin before the players showed up...

Oh...and then Tayshaun Prince showed up!!!

What up, Tayshaun???@?@? He was so shy and quiet. I think Papa and I smiled the whole way home from Detroit...

And the fun didn't stop there...the next weekend we took My Buddy back on the road for yet another Sloppy Saturday. We started the day with breakfast in bed, which was a pint of Guinness, and continued on to Standale for the State game with Jonny for a few...

A couple of shots...

Super skinny sethy!!

And then came Easter at the burger house! Horrible driving, but a wings game and time with family always melts away the tension, right??

REDWINGS!!! We were in awesome club seats right on the goal line. Got to see all 4 RW goals as they crushed the Bluejackets 4-1.

Papa Burger trying to scalp Hans' ticket...

Tata toting a sleepy gavin...

Seth, Cameron and I playing elevator tricks on the non-smokers.

Gavin searched for Easter eggs while all the big kids searched for "golden eggs". The Easter Bunny put various amounts of money in each golden egg, and Marah and I both got the big bonus! The Burger Bunch brunched with a Father Louie from Nigeria and then Seth and I got out of doing dishes by heading to Howell to have Chinese easter dinner with Grandma K., Little Matt, Monica, Craig and Paul.

And that is what happened...

A fun little comparison...

This is what my new office looks like. The chill area, the lobby, the dining area where we all eat lunch together on Friday's, and a picture of me getting coffee in the morning.

This is what my old office looked like...

It sucked.

Floozy!!

Seth and I ended our 2-week streak of being Friday night Fish Fry Floozies. Like last year when we got over excited for church-style fried and baked fish and absolutely gorged ourselves, then proceeded to spend the rest of the evening burping and trading seats in the bathroom, history repeated itself. We again made a pact that we were done with fried fish until the end of lent.

We dropped by Shea and Matt's place for a few after the fish fry, with a short stop at Rob and Jacoba's in between, to help prep for Matt's art show.

Saturday was a little more eventful, with Seth traveling with friends and fools to the 3rd annual Michigan Beer Fest. Beer consumption started early in the afternoon and even though Seth ran into Miles, normally a very very very bad influence, he somehow managed to maintain just a lovely buzz all through the day and night, with no belligerence in sight. However, the rest of the group met a fate that was different altogether.

I met up with Seth, Adam, Ben "AG", and Ben's cousin at Gardella's at about 5:30, then on Hopcat for a cocktail, then to see Brooke at her bar, then to the Black Rose for a Guinness, and then to Mulligans. Todd and Nick joined the group at different points in the journey, and we left...

THIS ENTIRE PORTION OF THE BLOG HAS BEEN EDITED...(it was a funny story, but maybe not apropriate for the majority!)

The next 45 minutes were spent looking for Mike, who was "dead at yesterdog", then reading 4 pages of a book in a random coffee shop, then cabbing around grand rapids, catching catnaps on the porches of the only two places he knew of in GR before being 'rescued' by a cabbie who dropped him at the whore house of a hotel on Division.
Having all survived Saturday, we celebrated on Sunday morning by going to breakfast at Wolfgang's, where Seth read an excerpt of the beer festival article from the GR Press, only he inserted "Tang" everywhere beer was written, as Mike could not tolerate anything beer related.

The rest of the day was relatively uneventful...Seth went to see a world renowned master of Tai Chi at "Bally's" and to a movie with T-digg, and I rolled to the parents house for dinner with the fam. Not a bad weekend!

Rhyme Thyme

I have recently been assigned the position of figuring out themes of our work family potlucks on Friday. Here's what I'm thinking of right now...Rhyme Thyme.
So there is a list, and the first person to write down a food has an easy job. They just make what they signed up for. BUT, each person to sign up after that has to rhyme part of their menu idea with the person's above. For example, if I say I'm making

Corn

The next person would might sign up for...

Torn up pieces of bread

Then, perhaps

Red beans

and then...

Dean's sausage biscuits

I mean, yeah, it would be a super weird food combo for lunch, but at the end of the day, it's about team building, right? So the person on the top of the list would be scorned for saying they were bringing Falafel, but the rest of the team "builds" on how best to torture that person. Vua-la! Team building!

Sloppy Tuesday

We went from Superbowl Sunday to "Super" Monday, to sloppy Tuesday. Well, the rest of the world calls it Super Tuesday for political purposes, but it also happened to be the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, which meant one last chance for Seth and I to indulge in things that are bad for us before giving them up for 40 days.
I went to Wendy's for lunch and got a small fry, a junior cheeseburger and a small chili. In 20 days, I will be cursing myself for not getting a large fry. Unfortunately, while in the drive thru this jackass behind me was in a mad rush. All of a sudden, I hear "PULL FORWARD"; direction which I did not follow, as there was a freaking car in front of me. Then this jerk just decides he will straight up slam in to the bumper on our BRAND NEW CAR (which was not being driven legally due to the colorado plates that are registered nowhere)!
And I never rage in the car; I am not a beeper or flipper offer, or any other lude gesture kind of person, but I did whip my middle finger right straight up at that guy and he was SCARED.
Later that night, as it was Seth's last chance to do shots for 40 days, we went to pool league and...Seth did shots. A lot of them. And though my eyelids had been trying to slam shut since about 8pm, I managed to stay at the bar until 12:10, because Seth was so very entertaining. I was laughing at him, and in retaliation, he "threatened" to sit at the bar and do more shots (but no sooner had the words left his mouth, he was whispering in my ear "just one shot, my babe").

Super Monday

Yet another New York team stands on top...it's a bummer. Seth and I met Todd and Kyleen at an establishment on the west side for drinks last night and Seth brought along "my buddy", who is one corrupted little kid.

This morning, Seth didn't get out of bed. He said it was cool though, because today is "Super Monday", which means that it's acceptable to show up late to work with a serious hangover. I'm not sure where he got that. Whatev...