Mo Mo's BACK ALRIGHT!!!

So I kind of ripped off the Backstreet boys circa 2000... but I have broken my own blogger vows... Our summer was crazy, our fall is worse, who would have guessed I would be looking forward to winter to possibly slow down... But I will fill you all in on our summer happenings and chaos, and no it does not involve having a baby, I have to wean myself off corona and coke first.. (diet that is, where is your peoples minds!)

So where should this post start.. I know. Before I post pics and reminisce about the last few months, what the F is up with blogger. I lost my background, I wasted two hours last week trying to fix it and I am getting really aggravated. When I put in the code where it is suppose to go in order to change the background nothing happens?!! So frustrating! Any Tips would be great.

We had some great weekends at the lake and Luke and Lilly are so much fun this year. They both love the water. You ask Lillian if she wants to go to the lake, and in two seconds she reappears in her suit, all LETS GO NOW!!


Lillian and Luke

Lily and Luke Both Love Jem, or as Lily calls her "Jemmers." And like Jem, Luke wants to play fetch with Thaddeus




We also made a a trip back to Algona. I love that town. I tell Matt all the time I would move there in a heartbeat. It is just adorable, everything is nice and they have Hy-Vee, Fareway, a sweet public pool and pizza hut. I mean seriously, what else do you need? (I know pronto... but they do have Kum & Go, does that count?)

We attended The yearly summer celebration called Founder's Day and partied like rockstars..



Matt and I and Jessie and Blaine


Matt even grew back some of his old hair he had so much fun...

One of my best moments of the summer was taking Haily and Nolan (Jessie and Blaine's Kids, Matt's sister) to the pool. I love love love the water. And because Matt is married to me, he now loves the water too. (that's how it works right?) We hit up the deep end with the kids and I found out Nolan didn't know how to dive. So I made sure we fixed that. With a good teacher and an even better student, Nolan was a Diver! He was such a stud! I was glad I could teach him something useful, because earlier in the day we golfed and I may have taught him ways to use the F word in ways he couldn't even imagine... Aunt of the year! (sidenote: I was killing on the course that day, beating Matt by 3 strokes after 5 holes and I blew it, Big time!)



And we are progressing...

On to Nobles Wedding... my neighbor Matt got married on a hot, hot, hot day in July!! It was a killer party and I was able to meet up with my Holstein Girls.


Me, Mama Em, Mama D and Blenner

The best part of the wedding had to be getting the Whitmer to do the Humpty Dance.. let me rephrase that.. Jamie loves the Humpty Dance. Any wedding, party, DJ, or Jock Jams IV CD that has the Humpty Dance on it, the Whitmer will move chairs, old people, and babies to clear dancing space... For those of you who have not gotten to see this in person Enjoy...



Matt and I also got to play in a golf tournament in Holstein and we dominated. We got 2nd in the First Flight, I think anyway? We figured out take my Drive, cause it is straight and down the middle, Matt puts it on the green, and I putt that shiz for dough... $50.00 to be exact. And after paying our bar tab I walked away with $8.00.. and that my friends is what I call success!


The Whitmers by their "Hole"


Matt and Jamie being "Men", that is what Matt calls it...

So now that I have had a major blowout blog post, I hope you will all forgive me. I still have things to post about, and I wanted to save some of them... Plus I want to watch my DVR of Teen Mom before I get too tired... That damn Amber needs to give Gary a break.. what a biz.. so basically I am back bloggers. I just really wish someone could fix my background :(

Worst Blogger EVER

So Bloggers, I have been the worst blogger ever.. I don't know what happened.. June ended and so did my blogging apparently. And then when I realized towards the end of August that I had some making up to do, I also discovered that I had lost my cord to connect my camera to my computer... SERIOUSLY!! So needless to say I have spent the last month looking for it.. so I promise you I will finally go buy a new cord. I mean seriously, nothing in my life is too pressing, I am in target 4 times a week anyway.. or hopefully it will turn up.. one or the other.. in the meantime please don't cry....like this girl...



Or get mad at me like this kid....



I will be back soon I swear. I have Fourth of July, lake fun, weddings, and Debbie and I at Dave Matthews (which is occurring tomorrow). FYI Debbie asked me what she should wear tomorrow as she thought we would be sitting the whole time. See when we went to Tina we were in the old folks section and had to sit most of the time. I said no mom.. we will be standing..THE WHOLE TIME. This is Dave, he is my boyfriend, he jams, and we will smell like you did in high school because there will be lots of those "funny" cigarettes floating around... So needless to say she better have her comfy shoes on!

I will catch up soon.. I swear!! love to my bloggers!

P.S. please don't kick me out of blogging.. I will be back with a vengeance!

Graduation, Gay Pride, and Golfing...

Now that is a title for a post.. Graduation, Gay Pride, and Golfing. I bet you are all thinking, "What the hell is this post about?!!" A LOT!! Well this last weekend was jam packed for the Kajewskis. All of Matt's family was up so that we could attend his cousin Taylor's graduation party in Stillwater on Saturday. We had a great time and made pizzas and watched the world cup, and then spent the afternoon and evening celebrating with the graduate.


Grandma Betty with all her grandkids!!

Sunday morning I headed into the city to meet up with a couple of my girlfriends to attend the Gay Pride Parade in Minneapolis. It was FABULOUS!! Renee, being the only native Twin Cities girl had gone years ago, but Ash and I have never been. I also thought it would be fun to drag along my friend Elisabeth from work. Lets just say poor Republican Conservative Elisabeth was in Hippie, Peace, Love, and Understanding -ville.. This is Ray, Ash, and I's idea of a Holy Sunday Morning. We all had fun, even Elisabeth.(well I think anyway). There was great music, great costumes, lots of dancing, and ticker tape and glitter!! It was a gay man/every girl's dream! It always makes me happy to see people come together to celebrate individuality, family, equality, and love.


One of my favorite signs from the North Iowa PFLAG Group (Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians and Gays)


Drag Queens


Lots and Lots of Ticker Tape and Glitter!!

There was one video I took that may be a little bit blog inappropriate, but may need to be circulated via email.. Lets just say picture a slightly overweight man in his late 50's, in whitey tighties, just dancing down Main Street.. and I mean DANCING! Beyonce, Booty-Shaking, Rhianna "We're Gonna Run This Town Tonight" Dancing! So needless to say it was a great Sunday Morning.

Sunday afternoon Matt and I hit the Hammond Links. Hammond is the small town right next to Baldwin. It is about 4 miles away and has a great little golf course that we joined for the summer. I haven't been able to play steadily since high school and I am getting my game back. Matt loves his golf.. he LOVES LOVES it.. If I hear one more time that that "he really figured it out this time," and that this is the round he is going to shoot only 4 over, I might start hitting myself in the head.. Anyone who is married to a golfer, or knows a golfer, knows what I am talking about. I just don't ever see women golfers act like men. I just like to have fun and try to get less than 7's, isn't that everyone's goal?


Setting the Shot



Matt's Instructional


Matt is trying to show the bloggers how he won the longest drive contest in Hammond, and no the ball did not go 310 yards as he is claiming, but he has it all figured out..


Matt doing the Color Talk for the LPGA aka Maureen's drive

So we are enjoying summer and heading to the lake this weekend. I didn't get to go to the lake for the 4th last year due to that whole Bar thing, but I am making up for this year. I am sure there will be lots of golfing, boating, fireworks, and food! Happy 4th of July Bloggers!

Weekend of Memorial

I know. I am the newest winner of worst blogger ever. It is not that we have been that busy, but we have had nothing to blog about until this last weekend. Matt and I packed up the Lincoln and undertook the horrible drive (6 hours!) to Holstein/The Lake for a long weekend. The lake is my favorite place in the world. Water, sun, eating, drinking, boating, reading, all my favorite summer pastimes. We made a pit stop in Holstein and got to see Ms. Stella, and also introduced Lillian and Luke to the art of running through the sprinkler..


Ms. Stella


Lillian and LBJ.. he sees food, so naturally he refuses to look at the camera..

It is crazy how fast Lillian and Luke change every time I see them. Luke's funny thing is that he makes a noise after he takes a drink. Like this satisfying ah...thats good noise..he is such a funny little man..



We got to the Lake Friday, and Lillian looked at me and goes, "Mo can we go to the beach?" I replied, "Sure Lillian, we will go in a bit." Before I even had time to look up she was standing in the middle of the little family room downstairs, running around naked, looking for her suit.. Needless to say she was just as excited for the start of summer as the rest of us..


Lilly, Aunt Mo, and LBJ

We had a great Memorial weekend. Lillian and Luke hit up the beach, we did some boating, got a little sun, and we never saw Riley once... (he arrives and leaves with us, where he goes in between is anyone's guess!) Our biggest excitement had to be the "Rattler" that showed up on our deck. I forget which night, but we were getting ready to go to bed and Matt went to get a water from the little fridge on the deck. Well he returned back inside looking white as a ghost, and swore a snake just nipped him. Dad, Matt and I went out and sure enough a giant freaking tan and black snake was on the deck... I hate snakes, Matt hates snakes, Debbie screams at everything, and Dad chased the snake with barbecue tongs.. We did get the snake off the deck and woke all the Whitmer's in the process. I could not sleep that night, all I kept seeing was this giant snake.. It was huge!! Though we call it the "Rattler" it was most likely not a rattlesnake, and apparently it was some Bull snake.. But after a few drinks, it was a Rattle Snake to us!!

Per our usual lake weekends, Mom made awesome food, Matt tried to act like he helped, and Meghann shows up after the work is done..



Dad made his obligatory phone call to Riley to make sure he was alive..


Ugly Recliners, but we got two of them and we all fight over them. Best napping chairs ever!!

....and Meghann and Lillian got on the Jet Ski.. I don't know what is more surprising. That Lillian or Meghann got on.. Meg is the Gert of our family. Pretty sure she said something to Riley this weekend about how he couldn't do something because the front of his brain wasn't fully developed...that's our Meghann! But looks like Brave Lillian got her mom to take a cruise on the jet ski!!



and then we played charades....

By Sunday I thought we needed to liven up our weekend.. So we played Charades... We did couple teams, Whitmer's vs. Kajewski's vs TC and Debbie.. Kajewski's started off slow, but we won in the end. Charades is so much fun! Meghann is awkward, Matt is obscure, Jamie is serious, and Debbie doesn't understand the no talking part so she talks or grunts...quite funny.. But Matt's movie and book choices were quite comical. He is known for making obscure references and being oddly funny.. well here is a video of that.. Dad happened to draw one of Matt's movie choices, and he had to act it out.. do you know what it is??



Yes, that would be Precious, based on the novel Push by Sapphire. And Yes, Matt wrote that whole title down on his slip. Unfortunately for Debbie and TC, they never got past Precious..

Birthday's Galore!!

Sup Bloggers.. Just living the dream here in the 54002.. Well Matt and I have been celebrating some birthday's lately. Two weeks ago we went into the City on a Saturday night to party it up for Ms. Ray's Birthday. Only Ray could get us to come in on a Saturday night, and go to Minneapolis.. See We are Friday partiers so we can come home and chill Saturday... Plus we are Saint Pauler's... NOT Minneapoliser's... We are more chill.. but we can be street when we need to be. Ray's Party was a blast. She was the belle of the ball, I mean of course she would be. We also let her be the skinniest and prettiest girl for one night only.. because usually you can only have one, being both is just plain ass greedy.


Adam, Danny, and Matt trying to look cool..


Ash, Liz, Ray, and I (billowy blouse makes me look huge..please ignore)


Kajewski's...

But the biggest birthday of them all was this Saturday. Mr. Matthew John Kajewski turned 31 years old folks!! Yes 31.. and the sad part is, I remember when my dad was 31 and thinking he was wicked old... so I guess that means Matt is really old... All Matt wanted to do for his birthday was go to Saint Paul to our Favorite Italian Place (Trattoria Davinci), eat his requested homemade, from scratch, made with love carrot cake, and chillax all weekend. It is crazy how fast the last 5 years have gone. See I met Matt a week before he turned 26.. what the hell have we been doing the last 5 years?? Oh yeah, grad school for Matt, Law School for me, eating, drinking, socializing, making fun of republicans.. we really have our routine down...


Birthday Boy!!

So I was in the grocery store buying candles for Matt's birthday cake and the lady at the checkout looks at me all sweetly, and goes, "Oh somebody is a teenager! That is a big birthday! Is it a son or daughter?" First I just got done working out and was feeling young, thin, all those delusional things that sweating makes you feel, and I am thinking.. you bitch.. I am way too young to have a 13 year old.. then I realized I was 26 years old and living in Baldwin,WI and technically the 13 year old should probably be my oldest of 3 or 4 children...

But I just responded, "Actually, he is 31." Then she was confused, So I clarified, "The candles are for my husband, he is 31, we are childless and act like juveniles..I really think the trick candles are going to get him this year!" Needless to say she then looked at me like some crazy lady.. which I get A LOT!!



Please don't judge the blankets hanging over the windows.. Apparently the curtains I bought are not dark enough.. Matt likes things to be like a cave, and one Saturday this winter he put the blankets up to make a cave, and he won't take them down... this is what I mean, when I say we really need to get out of the college stage.. blankets on windows.. exhibit 1..


Let Them Eat CAKE!! (this is sitting in my fridge.. not cool..)

So all in all it was a good birthday! Hope all my fellow Bloggers are Well!

Zombie Weekend

Hello bloggers... Well I was going to post on UNI's loss last week, but it was too depressing. We were really sad that they lost, but still proud to be panthers... And how did Butler lose that game! I mean they had it! Oh well though....

So last weekend Matt and I were able to make it back home to Algona to hang with all of the Kajewski's for Easter Weekend. We didn't get there till late on Friday. Saturday we just hung around and did some egg dying with the kids. Well Matt did, I feel asleep on the couch and took a sweet nap.. I am going to be a really good mom someday.. (but that is why I married Matt!) We ate lots and lots of food. I mean we ate so much we couldn't sleep, and then we would get up and start eating again..


Kids with their loot!
Nolan,Hailey, and A-bomb


Kajewski Brothers

The highlight of the weekend is probably when we played a family game of slow pitch softball.. See I haven't played softball in a long time.. I took a line drive to my head back in the day when I was pitching, and after that I have basically been afraid of the ball. Well Matt and his sister are really athletic,I mean really athletic... Chris not so much... And his niece's and nephews are crazy little athletes...

So I get up to bat and I hit it, I was so excited, I hit the ball! As you can see in the video, I was not dressed for a playing a ball game.. flip-flops, dress pants, and a scarf...not very league of their own-ish... So you can see in the video I am jacked I hit the ball, and I am apparently running the bases as my mother.. (excited and squealing that I actually hit the ball)...seriously I look really bad...like really bad..

But wait, it gets better. Matt is up next and he hits a pop-fly... In my head I think that means I need to run to second as fast as I can... Well of course the ball is caught, and I don't tag up, I mean I don't even think about tagging up. I run as fast as I can towards second....screaming "I forgot what to do!!" In the meantime everyone is laughing at me, even Matt's 4 year old nephew... Yeah so I didn't tag up.. you think a girl who made up her own song about the White Sox in the 4th grade would remember to tag up on a pop fly...not me.. oh well, we will get them next year!




Hope Everyone is Well, Kajewski's are hanging low this weekend

One Shining Moment....

How About them Panthers!!! Needless to say the Kajewski's had a great night last night. Matt and I really wanted to lay low this weekend, as the last two weeks we were back in cities hanging with friends... So this weekend we decided that all we were going to do is sleep, watch basketball, HBO and nothing else! Well Our weekend was awesome.. We invited Ray and Hartley to come cheer on the Panthers with us at our new favorite local watering hole, called the Phoenix. (Great Food!) Now don't get us wrong, we went into this game hoping that UNI would win, or at least make it a good game, but we were also realistic.. I mean Kansas vs. UNI, probably not going to turn out in our favor..

But the Game was good..


I was nervous, and Ray was not enjoying my craziness!

UNI played way better than Kansas.. our Defense was awesome, Ali and Koch were fantastic.. It was a great David vs. Goliath win.. We got a lot of Where the hell is UNI? And Did you guys go there? What is wrong with these people?! I mean sorry our State Schools aren't all Wisconsin Stout, Wisconsin Stevens Point, Wisconsin Eau Claire... sorry for some originality. It was a great way to spend a Saturday that is for sure!!


Some Jacked UNI Alumni (Matt even attended Twice!! Grad and Undergrad!)


Hartley and Matt doing their best Jordan Eglseder (53) impression

Not to mention the Panthers completely overtook the National News Media!


Cover of the Times


Not to brag, but we are bigger than Healthcare in the Beltway

and Google, MSNBC, Forbes...UNI is kind of a big deal!!



And the Crowd Goes Wild!!!

So it was a good weekend..Nothing much else going on with us. We are planning on heading back to Algona for Easter with the Kajewski's in a couple weeks and that is about it. Hope everyone is well, and is cheering for the Panthers next Friday!