Happy Anniversary!!!!!!

July 20,2007 – this was Scott & Rita’s 11 wedding anniversary. What a great day that was 11 short years ago! Rita and I normally celebrate our “5 year anniversary” by going to a larger city. Our 5-year we went to Milwaukee. Our 10-year we went to Chicago. Don’t know what is in store for our 15-year, but the city has to be bigger than Chicago.

So on our 11-year anniversary I NEVER saw my beautiful wife once – how sad. I had to be at work before Rita arrived home from work. Then Rita was out with Noah, Kimberly, and Audrey, (who was home for 1 ½ days). I was sleeping when they came home and I think it was after midnight.

It is a good thing we celebrated a week earlier. The week earlier we had dinner with Monica, Bill, Katie and Lexi at the place Bill and Monica were married. Happy Anniversary to you two too!!!!!!!!

After dinner we shared a bottle of wine at our hotel room. We stayed at the Sybaris, what a blast!! (http://www.sybaris.com/index.asp) Any special occasion, this place has our recommendation. We had a huge pool, steam room and whirl pool. Very romantic.

Rita will kill me for posting this photo. But, I love her anyway!

The water falling is the waterfall in the middle of the pool.

On a side note, is anyone going to the WI State Fair????
Scott and Rita

Happy Weekending!

TGIF everybody! As I sit at my desk, I'm enjoying a beautiful breeze and the gorgeous nature I'm surrounded by. It just hit me all at one time just how lucky I am. I just got the hankering to blog about it and share my thoughts with you. (If you had asked me 10 years ago if I thought my mom would have started a blog, I would have laughed at you... now look at us! Thanks Mom!)

I am so greatful to have so much love in my life. I'm surrounded by a hugely caring, loving family. I have a wonderful companion in life that is always, always there for me. I have 4 wonderful doogles that very rarely* talk back. No matter what I've been through I've never had a loss of shoulders to lean on or ears that are willing to listen to me. No matter how many mountains I decide to climb by the choices I make or situations I find myself in, I always have had someone.

Thank you all for being my someone at some point in time. And if you haven't had the chance yet, don't rule yourself out! Your day will come! :) Have a wonderful, fun and loving weekend everybody. I just want to leave you with some of the beautiful nature around me. It's Brandi & Cody in amongst my flowers. Enjoy my little piece of heaven! Hugs & Kisses to All! Dawn

*Cody is often the exception to that rule!

Wall is Done!

Well it took 3 days to do and the wall is done. Ed would have had to work all summer to get that done and the knowledge it takes is phenomenal. I feel so lucky to have gotten a great landscaper and crew. 21 years of watching a wall crumble and 3 days to make it strong enough for me to walk on. Well there won't be any new projects fro a few years we have to start saving money all over again. On a more sincere note. Thank You to all who are communicating through the blog, I feel real hopeful that many great relationships will become even better through this. Have a great weekend and thank God for Family. Julie

Hello from DeForest!!

Julie - what a great idea. Believe it or not I have never "blogged" before. A couple of weeks ago Noah and I took a short trip to Niagara Falls. We left Monday morning at 7:30 am and drove 11 hours and made it to our hotel around 8:30 pm. We drove through Canada and had a great time. We hit the tourist area (including a huge Ferris wheel with an air conditioned car) for the nightlife and went to sleep around midnight.

Up and at 'em at 8:30 am and started power touring. We hit the jet boat and at about 10:45 am we were traveling through class 5 rapids and next to the whirlpool. What fun!!! After lunch and souvenir shopping we went through the Journey Behind the Falls. We went back to the room for a while and took a ride on the Maid of the Mist. Both were very cool as well! Little more tourist type stuff and in bed a little earlier Tuesday night.

We were back in the U.S. Wednesday morning at 10:00 am, drove through and were home by 11:00 pm. Quick, but a ton of fun!! Next time we might take Rita with us!!!!

That weekend we then went to camping at Castle Rock lake with my brother and Noah's friend Joe. Did some fishing and a little boating and watched some fireworks across the lake.

Can't think of anything else to exciting at this point. When I do, I will blog.

Scott

Julies Observations

Thank you for all the feedback on starting a blog. Seems we are all pretty much novices in blogging so let us all enjoy learning something new. I want to share an exciting new adventure for the Doucettes, well Ed and I anyhow. We have owned our house for 21 years and for the first time we are doing a major improvement, well major for us. Other than a new furnace or reroof we have done little that required some design decisions. We are building a new retaining wall on the sides of our driveway. We saved for 2 years for this and are finally seeing it come to life. Today is the second day of work and the pictures are from this morning. On the first day, Monday we got a terrible storm 2 hours after they began so this is really the first full day. So for all you who responded to the blogging idea THANKS. Keep blogging and everyone is invited to start and share stories and feelings. My day is better knowing you will be a part of it.