Long Time, No Blog

Well, its been a while since we have updated this blog. Thanks to the prodding of some friends and family we are going to try an update this a little more regularly. Mmmmm, we'll see what happens. When we last posted, Robin had braved humilation and won two tickets to the reunion tour of Van Halen. Robin's cousin Jeff (a die-hard Van Halen fan) from NY flew in for the concert and a "weekend o' fun."

We began the visit with Jeff and I attending the VH concert; which is one the of the best concerts I have seen in the last decade (yes, much better than the U2 tribute band I saw at the KC Irish Festival). The concert was amazing, you just know it is going to be a good concert when the lead guitarist starts the show with no shirt. Thanks again to my darling wife for giving us the opportunity to participate in this historic event.

After the concert, we traveled to Columbia Missouri (home to the University of Missouri) to spend a weekend with the Jeff's family, the Earleys. Thanks to Jeff's dad we attended the Mizzou football game in his company's corporate suite. We had a blast at the game and even got the chance to meet a former celebrity, Winnie Cooper from The Wonder Years!

We returned back to Casa d'Earley for some food, fun and fire. It seems that we had perfectly timed our visit to participate in the annual brush burning on the farm. The interesting part about the fire is that Jeff used it as an opportunity to burn his personal paperwork (e.g., bills, credit card statements, and junk mail) that he had accumulated in NY. Apparently, a paper shredder seems a little odd, compared to saving all your mail for six months, transporting it via rail, car, and plane to your parent's house and then burning it. All in all it was great weekend and we had an awesome time hanging with family.