Hansen's house.

My niece and family, Jen and Travis Oyler were home from Montana for a couple days, so last night we snuck up to Tammy and Bryce Hansens, to see them and celebrate Tammy's 40th birthday early. It was an awesome surprise. Tammy was surprised to see us. but was really surprised that Bryce pulled off the party without her having any idea. It worked out perfectly that their foreign exchange student needed to be picked up from her day outing 15 minutes before the party was to begin. I rode with her and when we came home 30 minute later the driveway was full of cars. To think she was planning a quite night with family.

The Fourteen Days of Christmas

2009 Holiday season was very busy. We didn't plan anything big but spent our vacation running here and there trying to fill the time. We had a awesome holiday season even though bad weather changed some of our plans. Christmas eve. We didn't go to the parents because of bad weather. Instead we got together with some of our friends at a motel in Plover. We did have a good time. Sunday we headed to La Crosse for a large wrestling tournament. It was awesome and Wisconsin Rapids again proved they are one of the top teams in the nation by out scoring their nearest opponent by about 270 points. Considering, that it was a 56 team tournament that was quite a feat. We got home at midnight on Wed. and turned around to go to Prairie Farm by the Hansen's and spend some quality time with my two nieces and their families. They had a large New Year's get-together at the school for New Years Eve. We came back from there for Sunday and spent Sunday and Mom and Dad Thompson's Wisconsin Rapids house. They both had siblings there for the weekend so we got to have a little visit with the aunts and uncles also.I have a lot more pictures but had to send the laptop away for repair, so will upload more when I get the software I need to upload directly from my camera. Keep checking back for more pics later.

Halloween at Hansen's

A lot has been going on so my blogging time has been majorily cut. The last couple weeks our focus was on negotiating a new lease for our Stevens Point store. We are excited to announce that our store will be moving 5 miles to the south to a new Plover location. It is in a brand new building in a high traffic area, which should help that store really take off. The amazing part of it all, is that the new landlord came to us and offered a honey of a deal, because their market research told them, they needed our kind of store in their new development. They offered us free rent until our current lease expires, so that we could not turn it down. Hopefully their market research bodes well for our business. We will keep you updated on these changes.

This weekend we went up to the Hansens. Bryce was gone hunting out west, but we had a great time with Tammy, kids and Tammy's mother, who I hadn't spent much time with in the last 25 years. It was great to be together, as Laurie was my sister-in-law for 14 years of my childhood. Friday night we went to the Prairie Farm Halloween festivities. Sat. I stayed with the little girls while Dale took the boys to a wrestling tournement, and Tammy and Laurie took her boys to a basketball tournement. Drew took champion so it was a good day for him. We had a lovely meeting yesterday and after lunch we headed out to Eau-Claire for supper with Blaise. Everyone was excited to see him again.