Birthday Boat Bash

Schuster Birthday Fun

We celebrated the September Schuster birthdays yesterday at Weaver Lake (Well, Schuster and Paulson...it was Josh's Grandma, Aunt Pam and Jessie's party too). We had a really nice picnic at the park, then Riley and Grandma and Grandpa played at the playground for a bit while Uncle Cory and Auntie Jess and Daddy put the pontoon in the lake. We fished and toured the lake for a couple hours and then headed back to Mark and Linda's for cake and ice cream before I had to head off to work. Busy day, but it was great. The weather was perfect too! I will have more pictures this week.

The End of Fiasco Frivolity!

Here's just a sample of what you might find at the Duck Soup Softball Fiasco. The Annual Nesting Swallows that require a "Don't stand in the 'drop zone'" warning...Plenty of pets, mostly puppies, vying for the "Cutest Pet" award...and yes, there is a trophy for that! A Crazy Gorilla, who also goes by the name "daddy" in our household, terrorizing all kids except one. And new this year a VERY tired little girl who actually took a nap after spending much of the day at the event! She loved it!

Also, even though this is a scheduled post, it will post on a special day, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY Grandpa Mark! Looking forward to our day at the lake, and hope the weather is perfect for the Schuster b-day celebration!

Fiasco Fun For Everyone

On Sunday we had a bunch of fans for our morning defeat. Here are just a few of the smaller, much cuter fans!

Duck Soup Softball FIASCO

It's here once again and almost over...The Duck Soup Softball Fiasco! And what a Fiasco it was! Our teams did poorly as usual in the game play part of the tournament (We "won" a game because the team we played didn't have enough players, but lost all the rest of our games!), but we placed 5.5 and 6th in the costume contest.

Yes, I did mean 5.5! Our "Works of Art" themed team actually came in 5th in front of our "Injured Reserve" themed team, but the guy in charge forgot to count them when he added the totals. That's the kind of weekend it was...lots of chaos, but still fun. I personally think the Art team deserved higher by far. They ROCKED the costumes!

Here's our team shots and some action from the weekend. I posted the picture of Mandy batting because you can see the crazy baseline, and because it shows Mandy and Bean playing against us for a team who were new to the tourney and needed to borrow players!)

As always for big events, more pictures to come this week! Huge thanks to Jon, Ben, Alicia, Janelle, Julie, and Donna for playing for the first time ever this year (And maybe Breann, I can't remember if she has played before, but she has been there a few years now). Janelle (seen in red wearing the groucho glasses) was awarded our team's MVP T-shirt for stellar play at Short Stop (I think she picked that position out of the hat, she doesn't usually play short!) She even tried to tackle a guy off the base to make a play:)

TIGF

Although I know it means the end of summer, I'm excited for this time of year because I love the State Fair, Ren Fest and all the other later summer fun that's is coming up. I'm thankful that I get to participate in Duck Soup this weekend without having to be in charge of anything but managing our team (Come see us play, we will in in St. Louis Park all weekend!). I'm thankful that I think we finally have official plans to go to the fair next Wednesday and Ren Fest at the end of September. And September is a buy month for weddings, birthdays and anniversaries too!

Play Date with the Big Kids

Riley and I went to my friend Kim's house today for our play date week continued. Lexi and Riley play great together and Lexi's older sister had some friends over too. The big girls took Riley and Lexi out in the paddle boat a few times and they played on the swings and in the sandbox too...Then we had a pizza picnic in the back yard...Riley is SLEEPING! yeah for Lexi, she wore my kid out!