6th Anniversary

We went back to work this week after a nice long vacation. It felt good to get settled back in at home. We cooked in each night Mon-Thurs with Nicole cooking on Monday and I took care of the duties Tues and Wed and then we made a roast on Thurs. I am getting more interested in cooking and we have even signed up for some cooking classes. We hope to start cooking more with Brent and Courtney Snyder. We are thinking an evening where the men do everything, from the shopping to the prep, cooking, serving, and cleaning. Then vice versa the following week. The one class we signed up for but for right now we are on the waiting list is a "sushi" making class. We stopped by Coastal Seafoods yesterday which is in St. Paul and learned more about what fish to buy, and we have the equipment necessary to roll sushi, now we just need more recipes and the lesson in doing it. We are going to try to perfect our cooking a little more this winter. Nicole is pretty good in the kitchen, she makes some nice things from scratch and can whip up tasty things in no time. For me, it is more of a process. I like to plan it out, I make a huge mess in the kitchen (I haven't quite perfected the "clean as you go" theory). I actually enjoy it but it is a little "unsatisfying" at the end because it takes me so long to make something and so short of a time to eat it. It is something fun though that Nicole and I can do together.

So work was quiet this week as the majority of my customers are still harvesting corn, which is very late to be doing so. So far though the weather has been cooperating and November has turned into a very nice month. If we would have had a lot of snow thus far we would have been in some trouble with that much corn in the fields.

Anyway, we worked all week and talked about what we wanted to do for our 6th Anniversary, which was Saturday Nov 21st. We didn't really decide until Saturday on our way to Room and Board Outlet. This has kind of become our Saturday ritual where we go to Golden Valley to this outlet store. It is our favorite store and we are still trying to find more furniture pieces for our home. We need a nightstand for Nicole's side of the bed, we need a media console for the bedroom so we can put the TV on something in there along with the components and we need an ottoman for downstairs, and some end tables downstairs would be nice too. We are spending the majority of our time in the basement now and we each sit on the couch with our computers. Speaking of computers, Nicole got a new one on Friday. When she bought her 1st computer, that HUGE Sony Vaio I thought she was crazy. I thought she spent way too much money on it and it was like 8 lbs and I couldn't understand why she wanted such a big computer. Well, after more than 6 years, the Sony finally went dead, but she really got her money's worth on that computer. Well anyway, she got a new Macbook Pro. She has been laboring over this decision for sometime now. She has wanted to try Mac as Emily and Ryan speak so highly of Mac and now Michelle has a Mac, and Ally and Ashley have always had Macs. So, now we are a split family with one PC user and one Mac user. She spent a lot of time at the "Genius Bar" at the Apple Store asking questions, most of them around her billing program at work called Procentive. She needed to make sure she could use this PC program with her Mac as she uses this program daily. It really is amazing what Mac has done to be able to isolate part of the hardrive for PC programs and then leaving the rest for Mac programs. She can actually log into each different part of the hardrive seperately. If she wants to run Mac programs she logs into one part, if she wants to use Internet Explorer and other PC programs (ie Microsoft Office, which includes Powerpoint, Excel and Word) and most importantly her billing program she just logs into that part of the hardrive. She is also really excited about the Photo opportunties that she has with Mac as she just loves to take pictures.

Anyway, back to our Anniversary Saturday. We Tivo'd the gopher football game so we made sure we didn't listen to the radio on our way home. We found a nice rug for our entryway coming in the front door and we also got a desk chair for my new desk downstairs. No luck on end tables or media console for the bedroom, and no luck on the ottoman. On our way home we stopped and had lunch at Cafe Latte, our favorite St. Paul spot. We made it home and watched the pathetic game where the Gophers went 2 consecutive games without scoring an offensive TD. We need to make a change at QB next year, and I'm tired of hearing this "bowl elgible" talk. Who cares about the Insight Bowl or whatever terrible bowl they will qualify for. If you are 6-6 and have a losing record in your conference, you should be DONE! No bowls.

So our plan for the evening was to do a little "sushi tour" of Mpls. We wanted to try some of the best sushi restaurants in the city and see which one was better. We know which restaurant that is always voted Best Sushi and that is Origami. We had never been there so we knew we would hit that, then we were thinking Sushi Seven, and then finish the night at 20.21, which is Wolfgangs restaurant at the Walker Art Center. We were judging the sushi on two things, actual quality of sushi, but also on atmosphere of the restaurant. The sushi at Origami was decent, nothing fancy, just solid. The atmosphere was a little slow but we were there early, about 6 p.m. From Origami we stopped by Surdyk's and took a browse of their wine sale. We found some good deals and then made our way to Sushi Seven. This is a very fancy place. Everyone was dressed very nice, (we were not, jeans and sweaters). The restaurant is very cool, but you have to be into that type of place. The lights were dim which we didn't really like. We sat at the sushi bar and talked it up with Tao, the sushi chef. He asked us what we liked and we told him spicy tuna and unagi (freshwater eel). He said, no problem, I'll make something great for you. So he went to work and came back with an 8-piece roll that was VERY GOOD. This was the best sushi we ate of the night, and it did win the coolest restaurant award. It really isn't our style of a place though, we are not really into getting decked out and high priced dinners. There was a table of 8 behind us, all dressed up in suits and nice dresses and they ordered "The Sushi Boat" which is a wood boat filled with sushi, at least 100 pieces of sushi in this boat. Well, they ate like 20 pieces and threw the rest away. They just wanted to be SEEN! We think the best way to eat sushi is to sit at the sushi bar and talk with the chef and they always take good care of us. They usually throw something special in for you if you sit at the sushi bar as well. Nicole was full now after 2 sushi stops and our last stop was 20.21. It was now 9:00 p.m. and 20.21 was dying down. We again sat at the bar and learned that they didn't even have sushi at 20.21. They had ahi tuna and other seafood, but everything was cooked, so we had kobe beef burgers (3 mini burgers). They had a sweet pickle on them and they were excellent. From our sushi tour we now needed dessert so we went back to Cafe Latte. We shared our favorite Turtle Cake. After dessert we walked across the street to Billy's to help Ashley and Johnny Larson celebrate their 25th birthdays. Ally was there too so we had a few hours of fun with the youngsters. Honestly, they probably kept us from going home to bed as us 30 year olds (I'm 31) get a little tired after 10:00 p.m.

We had a great day, the weather was perfect, the company was perfect (I love you Nicole) and we ate some good food and tried some good wines.

Nicole posing outside 20.21
What a beautiful wife!

Maui Day 10 (Head For Home)

We had a long trip scheduled home on Friday. It was a brutal day filled with airports, layovers and jet lag. We left the Maui Ocean Club at 8:00 a.m. We returned the rental car and headed to the airport for our 10:30 a.m. departure. Our first trip was a short one from Maui to Honululu. Only a 30-minute flight, but then a 1 hr 40 minute layover there. From there we were onto San Francisco, a flight of a little over 5 hours and a 2 hour time change. Then we had another 2 hour layover in San Fran. Now, here is where the trip got UGLY! From San Fran, we couldn't find a reasonable direct flight home so we found a one stop in Atlanta. This was another 4 plus hour flight with another 3 hour time change, another 1 hr layover and finally onto Minneapolis. We left our hotel at 8:00 a.m. on Friday and we landed in Minneapolis at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday. This was a 25 hour day with 5 hours of time changes. Yuck. We are both feeling it tonight. Nicole decided to spend the day resting and watching the Gopher football game (barely escaping with a victory 16-13 over SDSU). I decided to fight jet lag by playing golf. Brent and John Reigstad and I headed out at noon today. It was cold at first but we walked the front 9 and it turned out to be a pretty nice day. Brent gave me 11 shots today as he could see the jet lag on my face. I played ok and shot 82, but Brent had me beat by hole 15 as he was 2 under through that point. He ended up shooting a 1 under 70 with one bogey on the last hole. I think it was good for me to get out and get some fresh air, but as I sit and write this blog tonight I am watching Gopher Hockey (currently up 2-1 over Bemidji State) I am very tired.
Tomorrow will be more of the same, laundry and resting preparing to go back to work on Monday. Michelle and Zander are staying over tonight so we are having fun entertaining our 3 year old nephew. He is growing up so fast and is very smart, but still FULL of energy. Nicole loves to entertain him. Enjoy the weekend!

Maui Day 9 Thursday

This was our last full day in Maui. We didn't have anything scheduled for the day and all week long we thought about what we should so. The Wilsons wanted to bike down Haleakala, which they did. They woke up for the sunrise bike tour and they said it was a great time. Nicole and I had enough biking from our trip in San Francisco so she and I went back and forth on which golf course we would play. We ended up playing the Bay Course at Kapalua. We played their sister course, the Plantation on Sunday and enjoyed it so we thought we would try the Bay Course. It was just fine, not nearly as nice as the Plantation, but it had some cool holes along the ocean, one in particular where you have to hit your ball 100 yards of carry over the ocean. It was a 205 yard par 3. I made a par, which was the highlight of the round.
We had considered taking the ferry from Maui to Lanai, an island directly across from Maui and playing 2 courses over there, one called the Experience (designed by Greg Norman) and the other called The Challenge (designed by Jack Nicklaus). It would have been a great time, but a long day so we decided on just 1 round of golf.
We went back to dinner at Cane and Taro, where we started our trip a week earlier and had the same sushi that we loved so much the first night on the island. What a great trip, Maui lived up to its hype of being a great vacation destination. We loved every minute!

Maui Day 8 Wednesday

Today was another golf day, this time we were scheduled to play the Gold Course at Grand Wailea. This course has also hosted The Skins Game, which is a pro tournament. This course is also ranked in the top 100 in the US and it was a great course. We all loved it, Jeb more than the Plantation, Nicole and I liked the Plantation course better. We did have a bright sunshine day to play at Grand Wailea. Nicole and I tied at this course, we had the exact same score on the front 9 and the back 9. I had no idea it was that close as I was struggling with my game the entire day. I drove it all over the course so I got to see some interesting spots. Nicole made some HISTORY on this course as she recorded her first EAGLE! There was a 205 yard par 4 and she drove it on the green. We both surveyed the putt and it was about 8 feet with some break to the left. She lined it up and SANK IT! She was very excited. After golf we always shower in their beautiful locker rooms and then have dinner. We had our best dinner of the trip on Wednesday at the following restaurant: Humuhumunukunukuapua
This is the Hawaiian State Fish and it was a very cool restaurant at the Grand Wailea hotel. We ordered sushi again and the food, scenery, and atmosphere were all great.

Maui Day 7 Tuesday

Tuesday was a recovery day from Hana for our group and a work day for me. We had an important USDA report out at 7:30 CST, so 3:30 in Hawaii. I woke up at 3:00 a.m. and tiptoed out of the room as to not disturb anyone. I worked for 2 hours before trade and the 4 hours of trade. It really didn't feel like work at their oceanside cafe with the ocean 40 feet from my table and the pool about 20 feet. Wireless is a beautiful thing. It ended up being a great report day and my clients were happy with our positions. We rented a cabana on the beach for Tuesday and I joined the group at 9:30 a.m. Hawaii time. We relaxed on the beach, snorkeled, snoozed and just did what you should do on vacation. We had 1 underwater camera so we hope to get some good pictures from that when we get back home. On Tuesday night we went to a restaurant in Lahaina which was a recommendation from our neighbor and friend Brian Thompson. Brian was so confident in this recommendation he said that if we didn't like our meals he would foot the bill. Well, we all ordered the surf & turf with lobster and filet mignon, and believe it or not, we didn't like the food. It was honestly the worst meal we ate on the island, and certainly not the cheapest. The most fun will be getting it out of Brian when we get home.

Maui Day 5 Sunday...golfing at The Plantation @ Kapalua

Sunday was a day we had a tee time to play at Kapalua's Plantation Course. This is a very famous golf course and always considered to be top 100 in the US. We as golfers have this argument all the time, is the course worth the money? We are very spoiled coming from Troy Burne where conditions are unbelievable. Our pros at home (you know who you are) tell us that many courses in the top 100 don't hold up to Troy Burne, it is about how much $$ you give to these magazines such as Golf Digest to rank your course, because you know once you are ranked you will get people to play your course. (Above: Hole #1 overlooking Kapalua Beach)

Anyway, Nicole and I thought the Plantation was wonderful. Honestly, the conditions were not as good as they are at home, especially the greens, but the SCENERY was unmatched by any course. The panoramic views offered by each hole were so beautiful. I think Nicole took 200 pictures on the golf course alone and she is approaching 700 pictures for the trip. Now, how did we play? The answer is not that good. I'll start with Nicole. She drove the ball perfectly all day, but really struggled putting on their SLOW greens and her short game around the greens hurt her. She shot 57 on the front (worst 9 holes in several years, grrrr) and then recovered with a 45 on the back 9. I played very well with the exception of my tee ball (big surprise). I only 3-putted one green all day and my irons were sharp. I shot 88 which was very disappointing but I hit 4 balls out of bounds. The course was a par 73 and we played from 7200 yards. Dinner afterward was very good with open window seating to the ocean. We used their locker room to shower and change after golf and it was pretty neat seeing pictures of all the past winners on the PGA who play in their tournament every year. Needless to say, we love golf.

Days 3-10 Maui, HI

We arrived in Maui at 2:30 p.m. on Friday. We grabbed the rental car and headed toward Lahaina where we are staying at the Maui Ocean Club. We are on Kannapali beach. It is our 1st trip to Hawaii and we were absolutely amazed by its beauty from the first day. Our hotel property is great, its location is perfect as there is a beachwalk that connects all the hotels and there is an array of shops/restaurants/bars all the way for 3 miles. We soaked in our first Hawaii sunset and then ate dinner on Friday night at a new restaurant called Cane and Taro where we enjoyed local fish in sushi form. Nicole and I love sushi and this was as good as it gets.


Day 4
We decided to make Saturday about resting as we have been going pretty hard since we arrived in San Fran on Wednesday. We went to Lahaina and picked up some groceries so we could eat breakfast in our room each morning. We also rented snorkel gear for the week (very cheap, $10.00/person for the entire week). Down the beach from the Marriot is a place called "Black Rock". It is basically a big lava rock that juts out into the ocean from the shore and it creates a great place to snorkel and also cliff jump. Nicole and I have never snorkeled before and we found it to be GREAT! Jeb has snorkeled a lot on his many trips and he taught us a few tricks. I struggled with the mask for a while, fogging up and leaking water, but after a while I figured it out. It is very relaxing as you just lay on top of the water and let the surf push and pull you in and out. The only trick is to pop up once in a while just so you haven't drifted OUT too far. We saw some beautiful plants on the ocean floor and fish of many colors. The scariest thing we saw was a massive turtle, which was probably over 100 lbs. Jeb and I both jumped off a cliff too, I don't know if I should say cliff, it was about 25 feet into the water. We jumped off higher when we were in Jamaica, but it seems in my old age I am getting more scared of heights so 25 feet seemed high enough. Saturday evening we headed to The Old Lahaina Luau. The Luau is a Hawaiian tradition and it was a lot of fun. The food was excellent and the rituals and dancing were also good. I have never seen a belly shake so fast!

Day 2: Napa

Day 2 Napa, CA
This was the day we were looking forward to the most. Nicole and I love to drink wine and what better place to visit than the wine capital of the US. We hired a driver to take the 4 of us from San Fran to Napa for the day. It is about 35 miles from San Fran to Napa, but it takes a little over 1 hour to get there. We were picked up at the hotel at 9 a.m. Our tour guide, Tom, is a wine aficionado. In his own words he is a complete “wine snob” and only will drink the best of the best. He has made it his life’s mission to weed out poor high priced wine and take his customers to places that have just great wine. He told us the history of Napa dating back to the early 1900’s and about his personal meetings with Robert Mondavi, a true pioneer in the wine business.


Our first stop was Trefethen. We were seated at a reserved tasting table and we drank nearly everything on their menu, 10 wines or more. We were all blown away by their Dry Riesling so we bought a case of that. All the wineries we visited in Napa were amazing, the properties are unbelievable, they range from early 1900 estates to brand new state of the art contemporary buildings. We loved them all. We didn’t love all the wines though, there were some that we found to be overpriced and not worth the money at all.


The 2nd winery we stopped at was called Silver Oak. This is a large winery and is very well known all over the world. I am not a big fan of their wines, but their winery was state of the art. Their old winery burned down 3 years ago and they rebuilt an unbelievable structure. The wine cellar below at Silver Oak is the coolest wine cellar I have ever seen.












3rd Stop Robert Mondavi
Need I say more. We drank some great wines here in their Reserve Tasting Room. Mondavi has the brand that sells in the wine business, but as our group discussed and agreed, people wouldn’t drink it if the wine was poor. We loved the wines at Robert Mondavi.


4th Stop Rubicon Estates
This was probably the best winery we visited. The wines were unbelievable (we knew this before we arrived as it is our favorite wine, we just can’t afford to drink it very often).
Francis Ford Coppola (the famous movie director) owns this winery now. He bought part of the winery with his money from The Godfather, and he bought the rest of the winery with money from Bram Strokers’ Dracula. It is not uncommon for their wines to be $150/bottle, they call it Rubicon. They have some lower level wines that they sell to the mass market and they don’t even make those wines at this property, they are made in Sonoma at their other property. We drink those wines more often. We bought 6 bottles here and joined their wine club, which means we will get 3 shipments/year when they release a new wine. If you buy wine and collect wine (something we just started doing), this is the cheapest way to buy wine, direct from the winery before it is handled and marked up by everyone else. Some of the wines that are sent to members of the wine club are never sold to the public, which we thought was pretty neat.


5th Stop Lunch
You really have to BE CAREFUL when you visit as many wineries as we did. You drink A LOT of wine and you become very familiar with what the Napa folks call "The Bucket Of Common Sense". This is the spit bucket that each table has so you don't drink all the wine, you just taste it and spit it back out. It's quite disgusting actually. Personally, I couldn't justify spitting out $150/bottle wine, and I didn't. I spit out 2 wines and it wasn't because I consumed too much, it was because the wines weren't good. We had lunch at a great place, a staple in Napa called Dean & Deluca. It was an upscale deli with sandwiches and cheeses. We ate on the road as we were now headed up Howell Mountain to our next appoitment, which was Ladera.
6th Stop Ladera
This property was beautiful. It sat up on Howell Mountain overlooking the Napa Valley. The winery was built in 1886. This was the 1st winery where we "saw the process". The other wineries up to this point we just saw some barrels and sat in their wine tasting rooms. At Ladera we were in the caves underground where they make/store the wines. We saw the vats of grapes being crushed, we saw the barrels stored in long hallways, cool and dark (A good Cabernet is barreled for 22-30 months). This is why the 2006 Cabs are just being released. So, as far as wineries go, Ladera was very nice, we just didn't like their wines. In their defense, we had drank some of the best wines California has to offer up to this point, and we were getting tired. You can't buy Ladera outside California, their production is too small. They produce 3500 cases/year. We bought 2 bottles to bring home, but they need to sit in the cellar and age for 10 years or so.
Our last stop was at Bell Wine Cellars. This is another small production wine cellar. The wines were much better here and we all tried a wine that we had never had. It was a typical blending grape called Petit Verdot. It was very good and worth a couple bottles.
On our way back to San Francisco we stopped and they packed and shipped our wines home for us. It was BY FAR the best part of our trip to San Francisco.

San Francisco Day 1

I'm going to write short blogs about each day, even though we are already 4 days into our trip.

Our first day in San Fran was a nice day, temps were about 70 degrees. We got settled at the hotel and walked out the door to the cable car. When I envisioned "cable car" I was thinking State Fair with cars up in the air going back and forth. Obviously I am an idiot as these are more like street cars, except they are pulled by a cable under the city streets. They also have electric buses in downtown San Fran which was pretty neat. No diesel filling the air from all the buses. The Cable Cars were very slow and I think more for tourists than anything else. We stayed downtown in the financial district and I didn't see anyone riding them to work. We worked our way to Fisherman's Wharf which is a big tourist attraction in San Fran. It is a bunch of shops and street vendors along the water, similar to Navy Pier in Chicago. Out across the Bay you can see Alcatraz and The Golden Gate Bridge. We decided a good way to see the city was by bike, our group thinks it was my idea. It was a strenuous 16 mile ride up and down hills and through neighborhoods. The finale was a 1.6 mile ride across The Golden Gate Bridge. I'm going to admit to this now as I'm sure it will get brought up again. If you know me you know that I am scared of heights. Well, this bridge is 225 feet above the water and we hit it in mid-afternoon with rush hour traffic. We were safe on the bike path, but the cars/trucks/buses were flying by us at 50 mph and the bridge was moving underneath our bike. So, I freaked out about 1/4 of the way across the bridge and we had to turn back. Nicole was ok with it, we got some good pictures and we knew we would be traveling across the bridge the next day on our way up to Napa! The bike tour was a fun little adventure. I like to call it a good 4 hour session in Marriage Counseling. We decided to rent tandem bikes and it tests all facets of the relationship. We had to compromise, communicate, and once in a while yell. We did very well! Here are some pictures from Day 1 in San Francisco.

Cable Car






Fisherman's Wharf. We saw a lot of fish being unloaded and here is one pic of an exchange with a customer. A lot of restaurants buy their fish this way for dinner that night.



The Tandem Bike Tour



The Gateway To San Francisco, The Golden Gate Bridge

Packed And Ready To Go!

Nicole and I are packed and ready for our trip. We leave Wednesday morning (tomorrow) at 4:30 a.m. My brother Andy is going to drive us to the airport and then pick us up on Saturday November 14th. We are going to stop in San Francisco for 2 days (Wednesday and Thursday) and then we leave Friday morning for Maui for 1 week.
On Thursday, we are very excited to take a day trip to Napa, CA. We have a private tour setup for the 4 of us taking us to 5 different vineyards.
While we are in Maui we plan to do all the tourist stuff. We are going to golf at 2 of the top 100 courses in the US, one course called The Plantation at Kapalua, the other called The Gold Course at Grand Wailea. Nicole and I plan to play the Bay Course at Kapalua also. I think the Wilson's are up for 2 rounds, they are more beach people than we are so we'll probably sneak another round of golf in while they are sunning themselves. I could care less about the beach, white people like me don't belong on the beach, I belong on the golf course. :) Just in case I have my SPF 70, but from what I read anything above 35 SPF doesn't matter.
Other exciting adventures we are planning are snorkeling, drive on the Road To Hana, and drive up to Haleakala National Park. We are also going to attend a Luau so we'll see how that goes.
I am going to take the over on 1000 pictures that I'm sure we'll take, so we'll share them along the way. Hopefully I don't have time to write on the blog while we're gone, but I'll probably post some updates.

Happy Halloween

We had a good weekend, boy was it busy. On Friday night after work I went to help my brother Ryan move into his new house. He and my brother Andy had most of the heavy lifting done before I got there, but they saved some of the heavy stuff for me as they say I am the strongest brother, HA!. Their house is very nice and it was exciting to move them in. My brother was excited to get his DirecTV setup with DVR. It was nice that he got DirecTV as he got $100.00 off and I got $100 for a referral. It was also great to see my mother whom I haven't seen since her birthday in August. Miss you mom!
After I finished helping there I met Nicole and the Snyder's (Brent and Courtney) for dinner. We went to Court's favorite Asian place in White Bear called The Orchid. The food was great. We then went back to our place to watch Twilight, one of Brent's favorite movies. It was pretty good and now we await the release of the sequel in November called New Moon.
Nicole was on call this weekend so she called the hospital on Saturday morning to see if there were any orders. There were 3 orders, so it was a full day for her. I went to my AGR board meeting at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday and I dropped Nicole off at Fairview. My meeting was about 2.5 hours and Nicole was at the hospital until 3:00. After I picked her up we were both tired so we decided to sell our Gopher football tix and go home and watch the game on TV. Plus Nicole had 2 hours of dictations to do. We decided at halftime of the Gopher game to get a bite to eat so we went to a new restaurant in Stillwater called The Kitchen. The food was good so we will go back. We came home to watch the 4th quarter of the Gopher game and it was a good one. Adam Weber had a career game with over 400 yards passing and 5 TD's as the Gophers beat Michigan St. Iowa also won to improve to 9-0, their best start in school history. I'm sure Happer is enjoying the Hawkeye season very much.
On Sunday Nicole checked with the hospital again and this time no orders so she had the day off, which was great as Troy Burne had its end of the year tournament today. This is just a day where all the members play golf and they empty out all the beer coolers, booze bottles, all pro shop items that didn't sell and couldn't be returned. It ends up being a fun day. We played with Brent and Courtney but we didn't play great. We had a lot of fun though. There weren't any good women's clothes left but I got a nice shirt which I gave to my neighbor Brian and I got a new Nike putter that I sold to my neighbor Tim. I have enough golf gear and the only club I am considering is a new driver, but that will be next year. It was a fun weekend and below are some pictures from today's golf.


Meet The Snyders "Brent and Courtney"









Oh, those newlyweds!

Nicole spent much of the day trying to kick the rust off her swing. You'll notice no pictures of me as I was doing the same thing.





Courtney driving another one down the middle!




Nicole very excited about Courtney's birdie putt falling on #2 (Thanks to Brent for putting us about 3 feet away!