CRAZY week!!

Life in the Bangert house has been a tad busy these past 8-10 days!

Last Friday I worked late to get ready for the housing students to move onto campus on August 30th. Afterwards Kyle and I went out with Mindi and Preston to celebrate my birthday the next day. We went to Lomitas, one of my favorite Mexican restaurants in Fort Dodge! It was a fun evening with them. The waiter found out we were celebrating my birthday and brought the sombrero to wear and they sang to me and I got free friend ice cream!

Saturday was my 25th birthday! Kyle worked in the morning and I did a little shopping. Then we had one of his employee’s weddings to go to in the afternoon. It was quite a small wedding so it didn’t last too long. We ended up going to Applebee's for some drinks and appetizers and then headed home thinking we were going to call it an early night, but ended up having a bonfire with Chad and some other friends! Ended up being a great birthday!

At the wedding…it was a little windy!

The yummy cake Kyle got for me!

Sunday was day 1 of a BUSY 6 day work week for me. On campus students checked in and then classes started on Tuesday. I did find out our preliminary numbers and they are predicting our enrollment will be up 9-11%. You have to understand that we are usually really happy if we have a 3% increase in enrollment. I guess it explains why my office has been completely swamped this past week.

Right now I'm glad to say the 3 day weekend is here and I probably won’t have to work another 80 hour week until next year at this time! Hope everyone enjoys their long weekend! We are headed to Iowa City for the first football game of the season!!

Weekend in Minneapolis

Last weekend when Kyle got off work on Saturday we jetted outta Dodge and headed north to the Twin Cities with our friends Mark and Kathy. This was to celebrate our anniversary! We just delayed the celebration for a while ‘cause this was the only weekend that worked for both of us!
When we were just getting into the Cities the guys thought maybe we could catch the 7 o’clock Twins game rather than waiting until the 1PM game the next day ‘cause we were going to scalp our tickets no matter which game we went to. So we quick check into our hotel, park the car, switch into our Twins clothes, and grab a cab to the MetroDome. We were almost there and the cabbie says “Where to at the MetroDome"?” (he was thinking he was taking us to our parked car!) and we’re like ….well the main entrance probably. Kinda a silly question we thought….but then we started to see all these Twins fans walking AWAY from the Dome. And the cabbie, he says “Well the game’s already over!” OMG!!! The guys swore it was at 7PM, but it was obviously earlier! We had quite a good little laugh!!
So since we had the rest of the night to we decided to walk around downtown, see the sights, and find somewhere to eat supper.

Kathy said she always wanted to take a picture with Mary Tyler Moore….and now she has one!! :)
 

We ended up at the Hard Rock Cafe for supper! 

I didn’t know my hubby liked jalapeños!!!

    

Can you see Kyle there behind the steam from Mark’s fajitas?!?!

Kyle and Kathy both got lil flags on their sandwiches and were pretty proud of them!! :) 

 

I ordered the Hawaiian chicken….mmmm it was SO good!! But WAY too much for 1 person! :p 

  So we stayed NEXT DOOR to the GAP and guess what?!?!?!? I didn’t even get to go there. :( Kyle says good thing ‘cause we saved $$!! 

We stayed at “The Marquette”….very nice! Kyle liked the giant flat screens in the room! I liked the glassed in shower!

the hotel lobby…kinda cool!

The next morning we weren’t sure where to eat breakfast…not a lot of options downtown! We ended up walking just a few blocks down from our hotel to the “Keys Cafe” and it was GREAT!! But we did catch a few pictures on the way! :)  

Kyle got hit by a bus on the walk back from breakfast….j/k LOL!!!      

 Reflections!!! check out the bus in the background…"go greener”!! 

After breakfast we headed down to the Dome to find our tickets. And we had great luck! Got ones on the 3rd base line, only 14 rows up for $25…not bad!!

Laura – these pictures are for you! ;)

            

Look at this GIANT tub of bunny tracks ice cream!!! Ok well it really wasn’t filled with ice cream, but Kyle wishes it was, that is his FAVORITE kind!! It was a blow up thing that someone from the crowd got to throw a ball in and if they made it they got a year’s worth of ice cream! Too bad we weren’t picked to do that!! 

I don’t think this umpire was even watching the game. He was too busy eating his sun flower seeds. Look at the mess around him! 

Our last game in the Dome! Can’t wait to go to the new ball park next year…when it’s warm anyway! ;)

Thanks for a great weekend Mark & Kathy…you’re too good to us!!

Show Us Your Life Friday – Baby Showers

Kelly over at “Kelly’s Korner”  hosts this every week and I wanted to participate this week because I love throwing any type of party and who doesn’t love babies!!!

Between my sister Mindi and I, we have thrown MANY showers! And through all of those we have collected a lot “ rubber duck” decor! Works perfect for boy or girl!

Usually for our little for our group of friends we decorate and have a fun theme shower and then for baby #2, #3, etc we do a “pot luck” style and just get together, which is always just as fun!

I also enjoy card making so I usually get to make the invites! Here is a “duck” theme one I did for my sweet friend Leanne! It swiveled open and had all the shower info on the inside! Simple, but fun!

 

I’ve also made a few diaper cakes! they are time consuming, but fun and practical!

 

Giant Rubber Duckies!

 

Punch Duck Pond!!         

I’ve also made a few “baby carriages” out of watermelon and other fruit! Ok well actually Kyle does all the carving andI do the finishing details! Notice the duck cookies in the background…courtesy of “Larita’s Cakes & More” …my favorite!   

These are only a few of those showers. I couldn’t find pictures of all the showers my sister and I have done. So fun!! Can’t wait to go to my own baby shower someday!!

Garrett Steven

My good friend from work, Kim, had a baby boy last Thursday via c section after 24 hours labor! Ugh!! Poor girl!! But I am sure she would tell you today that it was all worth it! I went to visit them on Saturday while they were still in the hospital. This is her first and her and her husband have wait VERY long for this precious little boy. I am so happy for them and all the happiness he will bring into their lives!

Garrett – Born 8/14/09 7:31AM – 7lbs 12 oz 19 in 

Proud Mommy!! 

Me and precious little Garrett…he wasn’t too happy though! It was feeding time and he wasn’t interested in taking a picture!

New Garage Door Opener

A month or so ago our garage door must have got hit by lightening (that is what Overhead Door told us anyway!) and so the sensor that works with the remotes in our cars didn’t work. And the opener is SO old that they don’t make parts for them anymore. So we had to get a new one.   We decided to go with a Craftsman from Sears…to save some $$$!!

The old opener…detached from the ceiling and ready to be “laid to rest”!  

Kyle working on installing the new opener! 

The new opener!!

All installed! Kyle just has to finish installing the sensors at the bottom of the door and they we’re back in business!!

20 days….

 

TILL HAWKEYE FOOTBALL!!!!!

 

Our season tickets came in the mail this week!! 

 

And I might have to do a little…ok maybe a LOT…of shopping from this!!!