Back to Wisconsin

Then, as with everything, the vacation fun was over and we sent them back to WI with a ride in a stretch limo!  At 6:00 AM no less!  I hear it was a heck of a ride!

We miss them already!

Super Bowl

By now I'm sure everyone knows that the Packers won Super Bowl XVL!  Go Pack.

Brian and Jackie were our cheerleaders for the big game......

Pictures from The Villages

Ready to GO!

They met the Hackels, on their way home from Disney, while they were waiting to get on their plane.

Airborne!

Gramma and Brian on her first golf cart ride.

Chow down on that wing Gramma!

Where's Jane?!

Gramma on the Cart!

Even though she resisted, Brian convinced Gramma to give driving the golf cart a try!  And she did pretty well too!

Go Pack!

 VS   

As I'm sure everyone knows by now, the Packers are going to the Super Bowl!  We watched the game too, but actually ended up watching it twice!  Well, sort of.....

It is no secret that me and Brian are not huge sports fans.  We do enjoy the Packers (I mean, we do live in Wisconsin after all.  It's a law!) and the Badgers, but for the most part we don't follow the footsketball stuff.  But again, since we are from Wisconsin it was impossible to not know that the Packers were going to play the Bears and the winner would go to the Super Bowl.  While I was in Wisconsin recently, we were talking about the game at work during lunch.  I swear I thought they told me that the game was on Saturday at 3:00 PM.

So, I get back to Florida and Saturday comes and we decided to watch the game.  I thought the game would be on FOX sports but we didn't find it there.  Since there are like 27 different ESPN channels on our cable system here (seriously, does the world need that may sports channels?) I started flipping through them and there ya go!  Packers and Bears on the TV!

We settled in to watch the game.  It had not been on very long and we both started to question it.  Things  seemed to moving very fast -- one play would be over and in an instant they would be showing the next play.  Brian figured that the game was on some sort of delay.  This didn't make sense to me, since it was a playoff game.  I wondered out load, why wouldn't they want to drag this out as long as they could to get as many commercials in as they could?  

We continued to watch and get frustrated by the amount of penalties the Packers were racking up.  They started out strong and then had a penalty on almost every play and it ended up with the Bears winning 20 to 17.  Needless to say were were disappointed.  Not only did the Packers deserve to loose that game (I mean, the penalties were ridiculous) but now our plans for a Super Bowl Party were down the drain.

A little depressed, we resigned ourselves to it, but were still wondering....  Brian couldn't figure out why the Bears didn't seem to be more excited about winning and going to the Super Bowl.  It dawned on me that they (the players and fans) didn't seem to be very cold.  It was supposed to be really cold in Illinois this weekend.  

But life goes on.  Brian had written to his sister telling her that we had just finished watching the game and that it looked like no Super Bowl for the Packers.  I was going to write to some of my family about the game too, but for whatever reason, I never did.

Sunday morning comes and Brian, as usual, checked his email and there was a note from his sister saying that the game was today!  (Sunday)  We both looked at each other and the silence was thick.  I don't think either of us could believe that we would have been that......  stupid?!

I went to the TV and checked the listing for the day and sure enough, Packers vs Bears, Play-off game, 3:00 PM!  We had watched a rerun of an earlier game!  After the shock wore off we had a very good laugh about it and Brian sent a few more notes back and forth to his sister.  She thought it was "priceless".  Then we called my sister and I think we gave her the best laugh she has had in a while.  

Still feeling silly, we went to lunch and Wal-Mart and then came home and watched the real game.  Thankfully, this game turned out much better and the Packers are going to the Super Bowl!  It was a tense, but enjoyable game.

Unlike most Packer fans who only got to watch one game, me and Brian got to enjoy two!  And I know there will be lots of good natured teasing we will have to endure.  Brian's sister and half of my family have already started!  

GO PACKERS!

The latest project.....

We've completed our latest project.  It took two days and having to replace a bent drill bit, but we got it done.  The window next to the front door didn't have shutters on it although the two windows on the garage did.

In a side note, we ended up replacing ALL the shutters because of a color mix up.  We thought the shutters that were already on the garage windows were black, so we bought a new pair of black shutters for the window by the front door.  When they arrived and we unpacked them and held them up to old ones.....  wouldn't you know, the old ones were dark blue!  So, rather than try to find a pair that would match the old ones, we decided to order up two more pair and replace them all.  

One set down...  two to go.

Only got one pair up that first day.  I must have hit something awfully hard because it bent my only 1/4 inch drill bit pretty badly and I didn't want to risk drilling 'crooked' holes for the other set.

All done!  And they match too!

Next up - new window for the entry door.  Stay tuned....

Max

Max, in his golden years, has adapted to Florida very well.  He has also picked his spot on the new couch.  We are so happy that he was able to make this trip with us, for as a lot of you already know, he wasn't doing so well just before Christmas.  But he seems to have rebounded and although his hearing isn't what it used to be, or his sight for that matter, he is doing pretty well!  

And this is the look you get when you try to wake him up in the morning!