Bragging rights for the Hawks!

Saturday morning, 5am to be exact, we hit the road to Iowa City for the state rivalry football game between the University of Iowa Hawkeyes and the Iowa State Cyclones.

We walked around to see a bunch of friends that were down for the game. Look what we found for sale, a Hawkeye motor home!! Too bad it was over $100k!!!

Me and my favorite Hawkeye!!

Me and a random Herky statue! Like my outfit? My sister asked if everyone dresses ridiculous! lol

Kyle and I planned on eating out for lunch. We picked the Vine just a few blocks from the stadium.

We loved their decor!

Finally game time!!! We were pumped!! It was a great game and we won 35-7!!

After the game, we hit the road right away for our 3 hour drive home. Kyle & I listened to comments on the game on the drive home. Hoping to keep the win’s coming!! :)

Garage Sale Finds – Revamped!

Remember these shadow boxes from this post? Well they were a garage sale find and I knew just what I wanted to do with them!!

I spray painted the white one black so they would match and used them to display our memorabilia from our first year of races!! This one is from our 1st two 5k’s last year. I also included just a little “blurb” with details about the race!

Our basement is already a sports type theme……well ok…it’s all Iowa Hawkeye! I figured our running memorabilia would fit in perfect! And this one is from our first half marathon that we ran together in October 2009!

Labor Day

I hope everyone was able to enjoy Labor Day…and have minimal amounts of labor! ;)

After lunch on Sunday my Mom came to town to bring me down to her house...on her motorcycle! We have family in town this weekend and Kyle was going to spend the day doing homework. She lives in Dayton [my home stomping grounds] and there are always lots of festivities Labor Day weekend...rodeo, parade, carnavil, etc!    

Like my sun burn from the game yesterday? Not only do I have an outline from my sunglasses, but I also have one from my Hawkeye tattoo!

When we got down to the rodeo I ran into my jr high BFF, Tawny! We had a great time catching up quick!! [hi tawny!!!]

The Dayton Rodeo!!

We got good seats and then decided on food. My sister Stefanie went for the tenderloin!  

It started to rain...coats work just as good as umbrellas...right Wendi?!?! (PS still no baby yet!)

It started to rain...coats work just as good as umbrellas...right Wendi?!?! (PS still no baby yet!)

Rodeo time!!

No rodeo is complete w/o a clown!  

The one armed bandit! He got those 2 bison and the mule to get up there, all with 1 arm!!

Bull riding is always exciting! I'm always so worried for those guys!!

Monday morning we got ready and all headed a few blocks down for the 10am parade!

No Iowa parade is complete without fire engines…

Local school organizations…

Horses…

Farm equipment…

Clowns!

Ronald liked my Grandma!  

Even the big kids got up to pick up candy!! [so did I!]

Abby even got to enjoy the day with everyone!

After the parade we all headed back to my Mom’s for lunch! We had an awesome spread!

After lunch everyone headed out for a bike ride!

Iowa Hawkeyes vs Eastern Illinois

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a great 3 day weekend!! Time off is always welcome!!

When 3:59pm Friday afternoon finally rolled around, I was outta there!! Kyle did homework on the way to Iowa City {3+ hour drive}. 

And I took pictures….oh wait, I mean, I drove!! ;)

Notice we were sporting our Hawkeye polos…special shirts just for Fridays at work!

We met up with Mel & Steve who drove over from Chicago to go to the game with us!! Needless to say we always have fun together!!

Long story short, we had a flat tire that took about 4 hours of our night.

Well we got the tire fixed, but Kyle had to put it on first thing before tailgating. 

We didn’t have a whole lot of time to tailgate since we had to deal with the tire problem…but we took full advantage of it!!

We managed to get in a few games of bag-o, which I’m a little rough at since I haven’t played since last fall!

We stopped by to see the band warm up and hit the [flusher] potties! I refuse to use porta-potties while tailgating!

We are so psyched for this fall! Hoping it’s going to be a great season!

It was fun to have Kyle’s sister & her hubby, Mel & Steve,  join us for the game. Their tickets were their bday present from us!! I don’t think they needed a gift receipt! ;)

Finally we made it to the stadium! It was a great game, we won 37-7! Can’t wait for next week…we play our state rivals, Iowa State!

We did a little shopping and decided to hit the road. We each had a 3+ hour drive home!

Unloaded and crashed when we got home!4 hours of sleep Friday night & a big day Saturday meant we were 2 tired Hawkeye fans!