The Bangerts

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

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!)

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! ;)