The Hougens of the Corn: 2010

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Mom, Paige, Taylor and I spent 3 days in Chicago.

We got tickets to go to The Oprah Show, and made a fun weekend out of it!

Shelby Mustang we saw walking to lunch after Oprah.

We ate the best pizza at Gino's Pizzeria.

Many of the skyscrapers in Downtown Chicago had pink lights
lit up or decorations for Breast Cancer awareness month.

I'm as big as the sky scrapers!!

In the sears tower observation deck.

They now have clear boxes yo u can step out into from the top floor and see

down the hundreds of levels. Very scary!!

The Famous "Bean"

Possible Future brother for Herbie!

Go Vikings!! (Notice Herbie's shirt too)

New Christmas ornament for 2010

With our new couch, we had trouble finding a spot

for our tree.

My Christmas present from Mike (that he got me early and let me open)

A BOOK NOOK!!!

I love it so much and recommend everyone get one.

We hung lights this year, just a few though.

Maybe next year we will do windows and door??

(If Mike is not so crabby!)

Not much snow here, in fact while most of MN had a blizzard this weekend,

Durant got 3 hrs of rain, followed by a dusting of snow.

We now have less snow, but way too much ice.

Craig, Ann, Becca and Alison came to visit in October.

They went to Wildcat Den State Park with us. It was a beautiful day.

Herbie had fun too :)

Wildcat Football. Mike's 1st season coaching football.

As an assistant, he helped coach the kids to state!!!

1st Day of School!!

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Summer Updates!

Here is a small update on what we have been doing the past month.

Mike and I spent 2 weekends in a row in Minnesota. The first was for a twins game and the second was for Kolacky Days. Mike had never been to Kolacky Days in Montgomery before, so we went up and took in the whole weekend.

On Saturday night instead of going out to the park or downtown, we took a family trip to the Burnsville Skateville! It was a hoot. Nobody made it all night without falling.

The highlight of the night was when Party in the USA came on and Mike began doing his skater moves!

Mike and Conrad skating to "Party in the USA"

All night long I had been taking pictures with our camera, so I asked Megan to quick take a picture of Mike and I to put on our blog. I had no idea how hard it was to get a good picture of just us!

First Dad came out of nowhere and bombed the picture.

NICE

Then Paige and Conrad skated in at the last moment

and bombed the next picture. . .lol

Finally, a good one!

Shelby and Kellen

On Sunday, we woke up early and went to register for the 4 mile road race.

Mike was a good sport and said he would run with me :)

Shelby finishing the "Bun Run"

Mike finishing the 4 mile "Bun Run" road race.

He was hoping that they would have Kolackys at the water stops.

He was very wrong!

Eating some yummy food during the 2 hour long Kolacky Day's Parade

Kellen, Annie, and Becca

We took up the whole sidewalk in front of the quilt shop

and music studio to watch the parade.

Allistair, Annie, Paige, Shelby, Taylor and Megan

TWINS GAME

We got 2 tickets from brother in law, Nick and drove up for the night to see a twins game in the new stadium! It was so worth it. What a great night AND they won, which made it all the better!