A day at the farm

The MORANS made the long trek to Omaha last weekend to hang out with us. We went to a farm outside of Omaha that had a pick your own pumpkin patch, a huge apple orchard with a ton of varieties of apples, and a corn maze. We picked to our hearts content and laughed our way through the corn maze on what turned out to be a beautiful fall day. The whole weekend made me think a lot about the importance of family. My sister drove all the way from Minneapolis to get here, which is no small task with 4 kids. I love that she values family too and I love my time with her because we are similar in so many ways. It meant a lot to both Jon and I that her, Joe, and the kids made the trip. We love you guys! Hope you have you pumpkins out on your steps ready for trick or treating!

The New Ride

Ok - so I promised a post of our new car and our Malibu's destruction, but I just haven't had time and plus I feel like a dork taking pictures of a car, so I thought I would just link you to a picture of our car online....Enjoy! If it doesn't show you the right color - we got the deep bronze metallic (that is a fancy name for brown).

As for the Malibu - I will be forced to take pictures soon for insurance reasons so keep your fingers crossed that I can get my act in gear and get them posted. On second though - who wants to see pictures of a ripped up car anyway! How depressing - scratch that - no pictures...lets focus on the positive!

Hobo Days at SDSU

Yes - I know...the posts have been few and far between lately. We have been swamped here and just doing our best to keep our heads above water. Work has exploded with to do's, we have been traveling or hosting guests for the last month worth of weekends, and busy trying to finish up the upstars (finally). We went to Brookings for Hobo Day (this is the homecoming of the school where I got my undergraduate degree. Highlights were getting to see dear friends Amber and Katie who drove to Brookings and hung out with my family for the parade, going to the football game with my nieces and nephews, and just spending time with the Gee fam. It has been a whirlwind of a few weeks but we have enjoyed every minute with family and friends! Thanks to all of you who traveled to see us and those of you who let us crash with you!!

The Malibu is stripped….

So, I haven't blogged about this event because I hate to even think about it – but I figure it was time. Our car got broken into a few weeks ago and the whole dash got stripped apart so that the intruder could take a ten year old radio and CD player. They probably pawned it for all of 50 bucks if they were lucky, but the damages to get our car fixed are going to be near the 500+ dollar range. I was so freaked out and pissed off all at the same time. To top things off – our car insurance people have been impossible to deal with, looks like our deductable is too high to get any money to fix things, and our car is probably only worth a whopping 1500 dollars if we are lucky anyway! So we are contemplating if we should fix it or just have a permanent cubby hole in our dash. Why do people have to do things like this? Can you feel good about yourself if you wake up in the morning after stealing from another person? Jon and I are just thankful that it didn't happen to our new car. That would have been an even bigger heart breaker. Speaking of the new car – I don't know that I have introduced you guys to it yet. That will be a happier post soon to come……