tailgating with the best of 'em

I heart football - the Cowboys to be exact.  This love even dates back before I moved to Texas 12 years ago.  The season just so happens to open right around my birthday, too, which makes me happy.  Sean keeps trying to make a football trip my birthday present, but it's to here...

Don't get me wrong, at least it's not the Redskins, but doesn't that sound more like a present for Sean???  Well, he tried it again this year.  We headed to Boston for the game and a little tailgating.  In case you've never been tailgating at Foxborough, or any other professional football game, before let me give you a little run down on what happens.

First of all, got wheels, will travel to meet up with fellow tailgaters.

a little of this...

and a lot of this...

and a motto like this...

can lead to this...

not with us but IS using the pizza box to hold up his own head

or even this...

again, not with us!

But look at this clan...do you think that would really happen to any of us?!?!

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Oh, and for those of you that realized today is September 30th and the end of my birthday month, Sean pulled through in the last seconds of the game to score a touchdown on the birthday front - and it didn't involve the Patriots (actual prezzies were involved!!!).  So none of you will have to beat him up, at least not this year.

i feel smarter already

Do you think just being on a prestigious campus can actually make you smarter?

or give you inspiration for what you want to do when you grow up?

or make you wish you could go back to your college days?

or make you get a whim to actually go back and get more education?

or make you put on another freshman 15?

or make you want to join a sorority?

I always imagined the campus to be architectural.  I have to say I wasn't overly impressed from that aspect.  I think the architecture actually in Boston is much better to look at.

Oh, and I think I did leave smarter - I now know what Presidents got their degree from Harvard - thanks to google and my blackberry!  I still haven't cracked the meaning of life though...have you?

more from moosehead lake

Because Sean finally took his fancy camera somewhere, I wanted to share with you some pictures he took on our trip to Moosehead Lake.  Enjoy!

learning to eat at the table

Remember those squirrels that were too fat to eat at their new feeder (if you don't remember you can read about them here)?  Well, they finally figured it out...

or maybe not...

By the way, these squirrels we like (the grey ones)!

case closed!

We've had some issues in the past with coming home to our party lights being chewed through.  Sean splices them back together and we move on.  This week was a little different though.  We found piles of party light wire on the ground and chewed up wires hanging from the trees.

After over a year, we finally caught the culprit in the act!

Come to find out he's been chewing out the light bulbs and running off with them.

We have no idea where he's storing them but I'm sure they'll provide him with some much needed nourishment over the cold winter months.  After a ton of time splicing the lights back together, the stupid squirrel actually chewed them again - while they were plugged in - TWICE.  We have now taken them all down.  He won this time, but there's always next year.

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If you have any ideas how to keep the red squirrels from chewing our party lights please leave me a comment.  We're up for trying anything at this point (those were brand new lights this year!).

weekend trip - moosehead lake

Recently we packed up the Jeep and headed up to Moosehead Lake for a weekend of fun and adventure with some friends.  I've already blogged about some of the adventures we had.  Read about them here (B-52 crash, moose hunting).  Let's meet the travelers...first there's Sean and me (and of course Duke)...

meet Brian and Julie...

and let's not forget Tim and Danielle.

We stayed in the cutest cabin - it totally screamed Maine!

Saturday afternoon we packed everyone in the Jeep (which required someone to sit in the very back)...

and drove all sorts of snowmobile trails in search of a moose.

We saw all sorts of interesting signs and names of places we couldn't pronounce.

We came across the remains of some tree harvesting areas and moose remains.  We drove around approximately 7 hours and didn't see a single moose or deer or rat or anything - only partridges.

After we gave up for the day we headed back to our cabin to watch the sunset and cook out on our little bonfire.

Here are some other pictures I captured from the weekend that I loved.

yes that's an adult with super mario jammies!

For those of you that are wondering, Brian was so nice to wake me up super early Sunday morning to drive around a little more to try to find a moose.  We finally saw one!!!  Unfortunately, I wasn't fast enough with the camera to get his picture.  For those of you that read the post "searching" we actually saw the moose the same place we saw the "Jeep meets moose" sign - it was meant to be!  Now my goal is to get a picture of one.