August

Wow..talk about a long pause...sorry everyone, we really have been slacking on updates. Here's a recap of the last few weeks.

August 21st Natalie headed up to Boston for work and stayed with Addie and Ryan. We all headed to California Pizza Kitchen for Dinner with Parrish Blaszka. Great food and even better company.

August 23rd Natalie headed up to Baltimore for Heather Eisgrau's surprise 30th birthday party. As you can see Heather is about a month away from delivering. Her real birthday is in September but her husband Alan didn't want to push the envelope so he planned her big bash for the month before just to be safe.

In attendance were Heather's inlaws, friends from Hasa, Scottie too Hottie (pictured with Heather) and his parents, Heather and Alan's friends from Owings Mills, and Peggy/Keith from DC also drove up for the event. Everyone had a great time and we all were pretty stuffed from the amazing Italian food by the end of the meal.

Afterwards Heather and Natalie and Heather's inlaws drove back to the Eisgrau Casa to open presents and give Niko some leftover cake! Sunday Natalie, Heather and Alan tested out "Bling" the new mini-van and drove around, shopped, had some chicken from Cluck-U and then ended the day with a trip to the Maryland State Fair to pick up some of the best caramel apples EVER! Natalie brought 2 home to Corbin with proceeded to be eaten within a few hours.

Last week we finally decided to redo the porch so our handyman Artie came over and tore the floor out of the front porch. Turns out the porch was pretty old and rotting so we have to do some serious replacement work to get things back in order (and to make the floor level).

Here'a a picture of the current state of our front entrance. as you can see its still a mess but hopefully by the end of this week we can start using the front door again.

Over the labor day weekend we headed up to Chapel Hill with our friends Mark, Kristin, Matt, Michelle, Jeff, Keeley and Big Joe for the UNC football game against Rutgers. Tailgating was really fun. Big Joe (I'll take a picture next time so you can see what I am talking about...Big Joe is about 6' 6" and could have been a line backer for UNC) and his friend Duke were the grill masters...they can really make a good burger and london broil sandwich. Here's a picture of the fans walking to the game.

The game itself was another story...could have been better. UNC lost to Rutgers 16 to 21. We also had some roudy UNC fans that needed a talking to...Jeff, Duke and Big Joe scared the pants off of these kids for berating some Rutgers fans sitting near us. Apparently last year the same 2 fans were pretty mean so Joe put a quick stop to that. I said I would love to come to next week's Virginia Tech game to see these guys try something with the thousands of Hokies sitting next to them...Corbin is heading up there this weekend and said he would report back on the "2 lame UNC fans".

Today was a big day at the Fisher house..Crawford went to her first day of Nursery School! Here she is with her new Ladybug backpack ready to head off. Janet reported back that she did pretty well. Apparently one of the other boys there had a few trains so Crawford decided this place was OK if there were trains to play with.