Father's Day

I love celebrating Father's Day at my Aunt Debbie and Uncle Ray's house.   It usually involves swimming, playing bags, drinking margaritas, and enjoying great food.  This Father's Day was no different.   It was a wonderful day and posted below are some pictures from it:

Matt enjoying some pound cake dessert

Griffin and my Dad watching the US Open

Ricky and Griffin in a serious game of one on one basketball

Griffin relaxing poolside

Jack hanging on the rim after dunking the ball

Ricky trying to help Matt dunk the ball.....if only Matt (or Ricky) was a little taller

Ricky and Matt

Jack with (Great) Grandpa 

Grandpa, Jack, Terry and Matt

Still Packing.....

Griffin and I have been busy packing up the house, taking items to The Goodwill and some items to the dump.    We had a couple items for the dump that I did not know how we would even get out of the house.    The people that Griff bought our house from left a huge box screen TV and a large drop freezer in the basement....along with the large king bed upstairs!   Thankfully Adam (Griff's co-worker that bought our house) and Chris came over with Adam's truck to help us out.    They helped Griff get these enormous items out of the basement and made two trips to the dump for us.   We were very thankful for their help.

Chris, Griffin & Adam

Brewer/White Sox Game

This past Sunday Griffin and I had plans to pack all day.   We still had a lot to do and we knew that is how we should spend the day.   However, while we were making lunch we got a unexpected phone call from one of my very dear high school friends letting us know he had two extra tickets for the Brewers' game.   Griffin and I decided we couldn't pass up the opportunity.  We ditched the plan to pack and took off for the baseball game.   It was a beautiful day and we had a great time reconnecting with friends.    

Griffin, me, Jimmy O and Brad

Griffin and me

The photo finish from the famous sausage race.  On Sundays it is a relay race.   Little sausages finish the race

Here are the sausages starting the race.  Chorizo started strong but it was Italian that won it in the end.

Griffin, Angelica (brad's girlfriend) & Brad

Jimmy, Jennifer (jimmy's girlfriend) and Doug (brad's brother)

So it begins......

Griffin and I have finally begun packing.   We have been putting it off - letting ourselves get distracted by Brewer games, biking and trips to Chicago - but with the closing date inching closer we've had to finally get ourselves into gear.   This weekend we started packing and we quickly went through packing tape and boxes.    We have a LOT more to go, but we made some great progress.   Boxes have started piling up in different corners of our home.

Here are a bunch of boxes in the kitchen.  We packed up some of our dishes and many of the utensils/appliances that we don't use daily.

Boxes piling up in the dining room.

Lots of boxes in the bonus room!