More Hats

We went to Grandma and Grandpa Hatton's last Sunday --- and Mike and his family came too! I took lots and lots of pictures... so here they are, in no particular order. This first pictures are of Mike opening his birthdy present, a cordless drill.

It's always good to see Ralph

Nick and his friend Cullen came, and went trick or treating. They got soooo much candy! And they still have next weekend to do it all again!

Nick and Cullen in their costumes

Meg doesn't like to have her picture taken!

Mike was balancing Beca on one hand in the air, and i tried to ignore it!

Pat and Meg each posed for pictures... like mother like son (or is it vica a versa?)

Aunt Laura was amused!

Trick or Treating

Grandpa Hatton enjoys having the family over

Grandpa Hatton, Jr. with Patrick and Becca

Mike models the Bears Apron I made for him

Becca wants Candy!

Mark trys out his dad's new recumbant bycycle...

The Little Princess......

Many Hats

We wore many hats this last weekend... started out with our God Parent and Friend hats when we went to visit the Skonieczny's in Freeport. We went to an Aquin JV game, where Paul, our Godson, played on Special Teams and Defense for the Aquin Bulldogs!

Paula, Aquin's Cheerleader!

This is Paul, #30 on the opening kick off....

The Bulldogs won, beating Lena's JV team, which had three times as many players, many of whom were BIG GUYS -- but Aquin had God on it's side, and some really fast little runners!

After attending Mass at St. Thomas, where we were instructed to follow our Catholic conscience and vote republican, we went to Schmidt's for a hayride and party, and we ran into some old friends from Freeport.....

Randy and Lark Musser

Margaret Wuben (Jen's mom)

Our hostess, Mindy and Jen

Mark enjoyed the fire

The next morning Paula got up early and made us Monkey Bread and Bacon...what more could a person want? (Oh, and really good coffee from Hawaii!)

After breakfast we were off to Grandma and Grandpa Hatton's.... where we wore many other hats, which we'll show you in the next posting!

Stella is a back seat driver!

Tailgaiting at Madison

We went to Madison for the tail gait party on October 11th.... We had lots of wonderful conversations.... and lots of food.... and oh, there was beer, and one little boy (Kate's nephew) found a basket of candy, and he sure enjoyed it!

Trisha and Dick share a joke... well, at least Trisha did!

We didn't stay for the game.... which was probably for the best, because MADISON lost to Penn State. As Betsy said, somebody has to be in last place and it is Madison's turn this year!

Mama Mouse and such

I have had a few adventures since I last posted... and one of the coolest things

I have ever seen happened yesterday. Mark was going to grill some burgers on the grill, and when he opened the grill there was a nest in it. He soon discovered that the nest was occupied by a family of mice. He gently picked up the nest and moved it to the yard (actually the neighbor's yard, because I didn't want the mice coming back into our house!)... But they fell out of the nest... and we saw a Mama mouse on this little shelf below the grill with a baby in her mouth. After taking a couple of pictures, she decided to "escape" and ran by us... but in her haste she dropped two of the babies on the deck. I was really sad, and thought they were doomed (I know they will grow up to be mice someday.... ) but we went in the house and closed the door in case the Mama Mouse wanted to come and get them. Mark didn't think she would.... but she did!!!!! She came and got one, and ran under the deck and then came back and got the other one. She came back again and went on the shelf to look for more babies, but they must have been still in the nest. I thought it was so neat that the mother mouse came back for her babies.... how cool is that? And I didn't even scream... but I did want Mark to wash the grill with bleach before he cooked the hamburgers.

Last weekend we went to Madison to have brunch with Chris and Annie at the Great Dane restaurant, and Neal (Chris' roommate who moved to Texas) and his parents were there too!

Turned out it was Neal's mom's birthday (her name is Jan too!) and she didn't know Neal was in Madison...

A good time and meal was had by all!

And Happy Birthday Jan!!!!

The fall colors are gorgeous this year, this is the view from my office.....



I travelled to Oshkosh last week to have dinner with friends, and shop in Cedarburg with Cindy, Lisa and Brownie

Dinner with the girls at Vitalle's

Cindy

Amy Cori

And this is our new car... well, this one isn't ours, but it is the one we ordered..... we could get it any day now!

Hope everyone is Happy and Healthy!