Buntrock Adventures: November 2011

Monday, November 28, 2011

Tough Mudder

Matt and 11 other crazy men from our church life group participated in the Tough Mudder race in Indiana the weekend before Thanksgiving.

Tough Mudder events are hardcore 10-12 mile obstacle courses designed by British Special Forces to test your all around strength, stamina, mental grit, and camaraderie. With the most innovative courses, half a million inspiring participants, and more than $2 million dollars raised for the Wounded Warrior Project, Tough Mudder is the premier adventure challenge series in the world.

Way to go guys!

Thursday, November 17, 2011

TRAINFEST 2011!

Trainfest at the Wisconsin Expo Center has become an annual event for our family. The boys love walking around and looking at all of the different train layouts. It is so fun to watch the excitement on their faces.

Commentator Casey telling us all about the trains

The boys love "ding-dings"

Caleb liked to get up close and personal with the trains.
Casey stood back so he could see the bigger picture.

Joshua's first of many Trainfest trips!

What's not to love about it?
Daddy and mommy took turns holding him most of the time!

Monday, November 7, 2011

Go Badgers!

Matt has wanted to take me to a Badger football game since we were dating in our college years. In fact, it is one of the things on our list of things to do in our 30's. I am happy to say we can check it off our list! We got four tickets from one of Matt's co-workers and so we invited our good friends Dave and Alyssa who are Madison Alumni.

We played Purdue, and quite honestly we beat the pants off of them. It was a good thing there were so many fun things going on (besides the actual game) because it was seriously the longest football game ever.

One of my favorite parts of the Badger game experience was the wave. If I can remember it went like this: normal wave, slow wave, fast wave, reverse wave, and then they split down the middle. The slow motion wave was the most fun to watch. I know my picture doesn't do it justice...but look at all that red!

My other favorite part of the game was the marching band! I was a bando myself so I can appreciate all of the hard work this band must do, they are amazing. I was excited to get my picture taken with a couple of the band members who came to serinade us with On Wisconsin (about 20 times).

The guy next to me is a total band geek!

Since we were beating the pants off of Purdue the seats were beginning to clear early in the 4th quarter. We were able to move down to some padded seats and cuddle up. We were waiting for the game to be over so we could see the band perform the famous 5th quarter!

Yay! The time had arrived and we moved way down front for the 5th quarter show.

The band was entertaining, but our friends were a hoot! Dave and Alyssa knew every word and dance move to all the songs. I think they belonged in the student section!

Matt and I tried to keep up with them. Here we are doing the chicken dance...I think.

What a funa and memorable experience. I'm so glad we were able to share it with such great friends.

Oh, and I have to give my sister a big thank you for taking the boys for us. I'm pretty sure they had as much fun at "The Reeds" house as we did on our date!

It was a very fun and unique experience. Matt had prepped me for the game and made sure that I wore a red badger shirt (my grey sweatshirt wouldn't do).

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Halloween 2011

As the boys get older I think I enjoy Halloween more than I ever have. It is so much fun to see them get so excited about dressing up silly and getting treats!

The kids didn't have school on Halloween day so we invited grandma Karen and Auntie Leah and the girls over for a Halloween Party. We played some fun games and ate an orange lunch. Here are some snapshots from our time together.

I wore my pumpkin costume all day!