A Weekend of Pictures

Friday night we went and had dinner with Tim and Kat and played a rousing round of Bloody Marbles which is now our favorite game to play together. Tim and Eric are generally pretty vicious and Katherine and I try not to play too bloody, but Friday Katherine came out of the woodwork and sent me back home just as I was approaching victory... I'll get them all next time :)

This is kind of a traditional Nielsen family game, and I'm glad to be able to share it with my Pacific Northwest Family!

I always rock the blue marbles because the blue ones are my favorite :)

We went home and got to bed early because Saturday was Derby practice...

Here I am gearing up - just about ready to hit the rink. I was on the rink for exactly 45 minutes when I fell wrong and hyper-extended my right knee. Guess who's going to the Doctor tomorrow? And guess who did this all weekend?

SUCK.

But this one helped me heal... Kind of, mostly he just wanted to snuggle on the fleece blanket.

Then Kat came to get me out of the house. We went to JC Penny where I rocked the crutch look, and where Kat rocked the Chicken Look.

Have I mentioned how much I love her? Hahaha Oh Kat.

That's my Owl face... don't ask.

And now, here's my view and seat. Seriously so bummed about this.

That was my weekend, and the only silver lining of this cloud is that thanks to xfinity I got all of season 4 of True Blood watched - hurrah!

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My Happy Place

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R is for Ronnebeck!

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