Packing It All into the Weekend

 
 It was a great weekend with gorgeous weather.  Lower temps and even lower humidity.  We did head out before all of our guests arrived to shoot.  Sophia is practiciing or the upcoming deer season and a couple of rounds from the 20 gauge certainly gave both her and I some confidence in her ability.  Merrick shot the big bore as well and then we all shot plenty of .22 rounds from their little framed Rossis.   The real fun began on Friday, Amy and the girls came up and we hit the thrift sales for some great deals including red Packer hats just for the game.  The clan Bryan arrived just around dinner time and we spent Friday evening and most of Saturday afternoon playing around the backyard wich now includes: slackline, pool, badminton, washer toss, soccer nets, driveway hockey, four square, swingset and some other odds and ends.  The favorite toy/game....dark.  The kids wait all day for it to get dark so they can play tag.  My flowers are trashed and we have a new set of crutches in the house.  Sophia hit a root at a full run directly on the bottom of her foot,  this inflamed the tendon on the bottom side of her foot and she couldnt walk.  We did some X-rays and it was all soft tissue damage, ice and time.  She did have to crutch her way through Lambeau however.  Saturday night was the Family night game, so us and over 63000 of our closest friends went to watch The Pack play against themselves.  The team looks about the same from last year and will likely continue to beat themselves, but the kids (and adults) had a blast.  We tailgated a bit before walking over.  I hugged a complete stranger and we we caught bratwursts that were flying through the air and called it dinner.  Life was good and we weren't even inside yet.  In hindsight Merrick could have done without the can of pop while tailgating and the bottle of water as soon as we got to the game, but I know the bathrooms very, very well.  The kids had a screaming contest with the rest of the crowd.  We watched the whole game, missed out on the jersey give away but watched some great fireworks.  Sunday morning was a little slow to start for most everyone and after such a full weekend, Sunday afternoon was pretty slow as well.