A Cerney Periodical

 Just a couple of shots that show our sweet home Chicago and the recently past weeks of the Cerney chitlins'.  Baseball with Brock! running to 1st after a great hit. Coach daddy out there in the field and blocking Brock crossing home. Running home, I think the before from the shot above. First day of school. Brock in 4th and Alice starting Pre-K at the same school! Alice in her "science dress" - I made it! So cute. It's gonna be a good day. And it was! And it was a warm day. We went to Wicker park after (a usual event) and Alice proceeded to get close and personal with the bear fountain (there were only a few days left that it would be able to turn on, they shut off after Labor Day). VERY personal. The clothes are off. Too much fun to be had. VERY, VERY, personal. My pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And Matt and I painted the porch! I also took these pics of the house for Alice's first day at school. The teacher was to put pics of their house and loved ones ...

 It is always sad when I start a post with, "I failed". But I do so often at photos. Anyhow, we did have a wonderful road trip to Iowa for a family reunion hosted by the wonderful Aunt Kathy and Uncle Rick to also celebrate Super Grandma's birthday. 88 I think? whew. Awesome. Kathy lent us her RV so we had swank stays. There was also their fabulous pool party complete with pulled pork, cake, family, fun and I think more than 100 frog ornaments about the grounds (the kids were invited to count them all). The nights brought bonfires and dogs at the RV park were many of us gathered for after and before parties. So, all this to get to the share that this RV park was quite adorable and had fun stuff for pictures. Which were the only ones I took like a goof. The ladies convened for a stroll and the following documentation ensued... As the boys were disc golfing, we were being disc golfing. And then a little shopping. Sure, "No climbing", but there was no sign saying...

 Hello all! This is not a super exciting post, but I wanted to test to see if the new subscription is working. Alice and Brock to do a silly little Walk-a-Thon to raise money for their school each year. I got Brock's time wrong, but here is Alice and her class doing laps around the playground: Alice is leading with her awesome teacher Ms. Russell. This is the first lap... Second lap and going strong! Thank you all! And we picked raspberries! Unrelated to Walk-A-Thon. But again, more for a 2 for 1 on this blog post to give a little more somethin/somethin. YUM. A fine tart was made: we also stopped at the Mars Cheese Castle (one of our all time favorite places in WIS) and got matching cat/cheese/moon t-shirts. Not pictured. I'll save that picture for when I have another semi-interesting blog post that needs some more somethin/somethin. K. xoxoxo  

 Question of the day: is the new subscription feed working?   Let's hope this picture of Alice smiling means yes.

 this is a test

 Hello everyone. It took us waaaay too long to notice that google killed our email subscription feed, and nearly as long to figure out how to put one back on as Blogger no longer supports it natively. Anyhoo, If you would like to get email updates about new posts, please click on the three bars at the top left of the page and enter your info.  (just click there) (and put your email in there)  Thanks!! And apologies for the service delays.

 I remember when Brock would not go on this ride: It's been two summers in the making, but last visit to Great America, Brock took on Goliath. And won. Meet Goliath: a triple record-breaking coaster, the fastest, tallest, and steepest wooden roller coaster in the world plunges down 180 feet while rocketing through twists and turns at 72 miles per hour at a near vertical 85 degree angle.  Picture taken with my new phone. Just kidding. But here it is for real and that for real is Matt and Brock's car!! See if you can find them! Great job Brock. Apparently he showed no hesitation.  This girl (Alice, not me, I loved Goliath), will stick to ponies.