Fall photo shoot

The pregnancy countdown is now at 4 weeks to go, technically 3weeks, 6 days.  But who's counting?! ;) And honestly, almost nobody delivers on their due date anyway, but I know it's winding down in a hurry!  I'm not sure if I'm just being lazy, cheap, or after your first you don't get worked up with buying every new product on the market.  But this baby has literally nothing but a carseat, crib, some diapers, and a few clothes.  Oh, and Mason says she won't even like the carseat cause it's blue (it was his). :)  I hope the saying is true that all a baby needs is food, sleep & love (all of which are free)!

So here is a few pics that we took the other night... Again, it feels good to not spend money at a photo studio! 

 Cute story about the hat he's wearing:  He didn't want to wear it cause it was dirty and itchy. So Heidi (my sister) told him it was Grandpa Romey's (my grandpa).  He then thought it was cool enough to wear.  So when I was putting the pics onto the computer he told me to send this one to grandpa Roby cause he would like it!  The next morning he asked me if Grandpa Roby wrote back yet, and what he said?  Well, my grandpa has been passed away for years, and Mason had never met him. (and his name was Romey, not Roby)! But it was so funny how he thought he actually knew who this person was.  Oh, and the hat really wasn't my grandpas, I have no clue where it came from!

Photo Friday!

Riding down the ramp was fun until he got his foot stuck between the bike and the pedal....

Good Luck Hug :)

Mason & Skyeler got a tour of inside the train! The look on his face.....!!!  They got to blow the horn and rev the engine!

Wissota 100

This past week we attended the Wissota 100 out in Huron, SD.  The place is nice, but man that's a haul! Well, I slept the whole way, so I shouldn't complain :)  Mason stayed with my sister, so it got to be a long time away from him :(  It was probably a good thing he didn't go, being the races went so late.  And could you imagine him playing in this mud puddle?!....

It started raining midway through practice on Tuesday evening, and kept raining ALL of Wednesday.  They did a good job of cleaning the place up on Thursday morning.

The A-mod had 'issues' all week long... The first night out he made a half a lap, and the car quit (the coil, I think), the next night out he was leading his heat, and the axle broke.  And the final chance at making it to the big show....well, the car was junk and he went backwards.  So, the A-mod did not make the big show.

The midwest mod did very well, taking 2nd in his heat to qualify for Saturday's big show, where he started 19th and finished 4th!! Shane also won the Race of Champions on Friday night!  He was also in the Race of Champions with the A-mod where he finished 6th with the 9m machine! Thanks Dale for the opportunity to drive your car!! I didn't care where he finished, as long as it came off the track in one piece!

The superstock also was a success... Winning his heat and finishing 3rd in the qualifying feature, which put him outside the front row for the big show! He ended up finishing 2nd in the main event!

Mason was glad to be home, and so was I (well, only the seeing Mason part and having a king size bed--- the back to work I could live without)!  We rode 4-wheeler, raced his new toy cars, watched the vikings (well, him and Shane did while I napped), then headed to bed at 8:30pm!

Harvest Cup

This time of year is 'specials season', and this weekend was racing at Ogilvie both days for the Harvest Cup, along with the finale of the RaceMN Series.  Saturday Shane finished 4th with the mwm and 7th with the A-mod.  Sunday he won with the mwm, and finished 11th (I think) with the A-mod.  I had to miss yesterdays races to cook & pack for the Wissota 100, which is this week already out in Huron, SD.  One thing I will not miss when racing is over is the packing, cooking, unpack, do laundry, clean hauler.... All to do it again next weekend.  This year has actually flown by, and for the most part has been alot less stressful than previous years.  I think just by having Sundays off made the year go much smoother.  So unless the Golden Spike switches to another night of the week, I wouldn't mind if they stayed shut down permanently.  Not that there's even talk of it opening....I'm just sayin!!

Once again, no pics.... I'll do better next week! (Ok, so I do have pics, I'm just too lazy to go get my camera and upload them to my computer.  Pathetic?! I know!!)

Baby is now 34 weeks grown! And according to comments made by strangers, I'm looking due any day now! Lol!  They seemed a little shocked that I had to wait til the end of October. It'll come soon enough I guess!  I don't take offense to the comments, well, except for the one where someone told me it looked like I had one coming out the front, and one coming out the back (referring to my fat ass)! She was a teenage girl & probably didn't know better!   I did have a dr. appt last week and nothing's new...checked my weight, blood pressure, and listened to the heartbeat. I'd say it was a good 2 min appt!!

Mighty Axe Nationals

Friday was the conclusion of racing at Princeton Speedway where Shane finished 2nd in the MWM, 10th in the A-mod, and 7th in the Superstock.  Not surprisingly, today I've had more hits than usual on this webpage. :)  Sorry to disappoint but I'm choosing not to go into depth about the engine claim that took place.  It's clearly in the rules, we've been warned for 2 years that it would eventually happen, and nowhere in the rules does it state what type of motive or intention has to be behind your actions.  And to look for the postive in a situation, the following night's heat race showed just how much support we have from such great fans/friends as the crowd was on their feet applauding after Shane won his heat!

The remainder of the weekend was spent camped out at NCS in Brainerd, MN for their annual mighty axe nationals, and the RaceMN show on Monday... Saturday he DNF'd in the midwest mod feature while leading (something broke in the right front-likely as a result from the rough track).  He won the Golden Axe with the Superstock and finish 3rd with the A-mod!

Sunday was night 2 of the mighty axe, where he finished 4th in the MWM, won another Axe with the Superstock, and finished 3rd in the A-mod.

Monday started out with a makeup feature for the A-mods that was post-poned from the night of the accident back in June.  Shane ended up winning the feature!! He finished 3rd in the midwest mod, and the regular scheduled A-mod feature was cancelled due to rain.

And I did have my camera along, but the battery pack thing was dead.  Thankfully there's a wonderful photographer there who let me use some of her pics.  Check out Vivian's website at http://www.vividcreationsmn.com/ for more racing photos!

Oops....

I forgot to post on Monday, so here's the low-down on last weekend's race results...

MWM: 1st at Willmar, 1st at Princeton, 2nd at Brainerd, 1st at Ogilvie
Mod: 6th at Willmar, 3rd at Princeton, 5th at Brainerd, 13th at Ogilvie
Superstock: 1st at Princeton, 1st at Brainerd, 10th at Ogilvie

I know this is the worst post ever, but a) I didn't bring my camera along this w/e. b) i'm 2 days late already, so who really cares anymore anyway! c) monday & tuesday have been the start of stressful/crabby week for me....mostly irritable and impatient with duties of my job. and d) I plan on having a wonderful day today, and so far I can't complain (although it's only 6:23am), so I'm not going to push my luck and type til I'm annoyed! LOL :)

Have a great 'rest of the week'!!