We're Back......

I know everyone has been wondering where Hope & I have been the past month. Let me tell you it has been one fun, crazy, busy, sad few weeks since we last updated the blog. Sorry it has taken so long, but our crazy celebrity life style should be slowing down soon, well we hope it starts to any ways. Wow I dont even know where to start since so much has went on since Hope's bday (our last post) but I think I will fill everyone in on how the married life is going because that is the first question most ppl ask when they see us. It is going great actually. Hope and I have lived together for a year now, so not much really changed with the living arrangements but we are both having a great time together. Lets see we have done some house remodeling, well Darrell (Hope's Dad) has done some remodeling. We are in the process of repainting the basement bathroom. Hope is deciding on the color then we should have it finished in a day or two. Darrell put up new shelves in the living room, I dont think he trusts me with power tools yet. Darrell & I pulled A LOT of cables down from our basement ceiling and now I am still working on putting a tv up in front of our treadmill, but Marc hasnt brought me the tv yet. Hope started pulling out the Fall decorations yesterday. Kerry brought over some pumpkins for the front of the house and we decided to tie some corn stalks around the light pole. Took a short trip over to Arcadia to see Mox & Norma. Man Mox has about 2 if not 3 of everything in his garage. We ended up leaving with 6 corn stalks (the thing we went out there for) and Mox gives me a tool to hook on the hose to clean my gutters, a hedge trimmer, and a hatchet. Cant wait to sharpen up my hatchet!! The other weekend Hope and I took a trip to Ames with Darrell and Kerry. The girls wanted to go shopping and I was getting us new cell phones. We had a great time. Took Darrell to Jimmy Johns for the 1st time and now he is hooked, but he has trouble remembering the name of the place, but he knows that the sandwiches are phenomenal. After our trip to Ames Hope has started to feel better. For ppl that didnt know, Hope was sick for a few weeks. She has had a few instances of rapid heart rate which then would make her dizzy. We took a few trips to the hospital to figure out what was going on and it all turned out to be nothing serious. Was a little funny when they hooked her up to a heart monitor for 24 hours because the monitor looked like a beeper. I really felt bad because our house is not beeper friendly. I had to get rid of mine because I could never get a sig on my beep. Any who....next on our agenda is ISU sporting events (football & wrestling). We havent made it to a football game yet, but are determined to get to a few. We did order season ISU Wrestling tickets, thank you brother Cory for paying for them (they are our wedding gift). Super pumped to be teaming up with the Stevens (Fuzz & Janelle) for all the home meets this year. Lots of Sunday FUNDAYs at Dublin Bay.
This past week the Hempstead Family & this world lost a great person. My Aunt Gayle lost her battle with cancer last Wednesday. Gayle was a character. She was my Dad's only sister and the best Aunt a kid could ask for. It was always difficult for the Waylanders and Hempsteads to get together due to the traveling distance, but when we did we sure made the most of it. Now I may not remember all the stories and great times we had but I will mostly definitely NEVER forget Gayle's laugh and her whistle. Man could she whistle loud. You knew when it was time to get home when you heard that. I want to say thank you to all the family members & friends that made the trip to Montevideo this past weekend. I know Greg, Josh, Rachel & Abby appreciated it.
Everyone is probably wondering why me of all ppl have not spoke on the Ryder Cup. I really dont have much to say. It is by far my favorite tournament to watch. It just edges out The Masters in my book. Nothing better than 3 days (4 this year) of intense golf fueled by the pride for one's country. The USA and European teams were both stacked with talent. Everyone had the Europeans as the favorite and were counting out the Americas early, but as you could tell from the finish today it came down the final singles match. The Ryder Cup was won by the Europeans 15-13. In 2 years the Ryder Cup will be played at Medinah in Illinois, if anyone wants to contribute to my Ryder Cup savings fund I accept cash, checks and all major credit cards. Photos are from final day of Ryder Cup & Ryder Cup website.
Now on to some football - How about those CYCLONES!?!?!? And yes I am only talking about the past 2 games hahaha. The defense played well against UNI with 2 pick 6's and not allow the Panthers to reach the endzone all game. Tiller played outstanding. I did not get to watch any of the ISU-Texas Tech game because my family wanted to watch Iowa-Penn State. Boy that game was about as exciting as watching paint dry. Great you are ranked and beat a ranked opponent, but at least make the game fun to watch. It was a shoot out at Jack Trice. I mean our football team scored as many points as our basketball team averaged last year. We had a kid run back an onside kick, I havent seen that since back in the day when I used to score like that when I played Super Techmo Bowl against Cory on Nintendo. Not really looking forward to the next 3 games on teh schedule of the Clones, but hey if there is a year to beat Texas it would probably be this year. (photo above is from Iowa State website http://www.cyclones.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=48323&SPID=4653&ATCLID=205005132&DB_OEM_ID=10700)
I know that I have had the emotion of this post go from happy to sad to happy to sad so lets end with something that makes me and all my friends smile - The Dane Odden Classic!! I wanted to be able to post how many days are left until the DOC5 but I havent received confirmation from PHall on when we reserved The Harvester. Either way the event will be played on a Saturday in May 2011. Its going to be a great event again this year. Hoping to top the amount of participates from 2010. I truely love to plan this outing, as much as it doesnt give me a headache it is all worth it in the end. Cant wait to show the guys what I have been working on and what I have up my sleeve. Also the polos for the DOC5 will be some combination of the follow 3 colors: royal blue, white & yellow. The reasoning behind that is I decided to use the team colors of whomever won the Ryder Cup and those are the European colors.

Last but not least we want to give a shout out to our friends that are getting ready to tie the knot in the next few weeks. One of my childhood buddies Kevin Milligan will be getting married to Erin Heim. Next week Cory Wiederin will be marrying Brit Klein and I get to be a part of that one. Im sure it is going to be one heck of a time. Good Luck and Congrats to the both of you.

This announcement was brought to you by the # 2 as in the # of times my name is on the DOC Trophy. #urwelcome.

BH