Wow...Ariel turned 21!

Ariel turned 21 on Saturday, June 6th. She started her day off with a 7 mile jog at Anytime Fitness. Ariel and I are going to do a half marathon in August, so we are in training and it just so happened that on Saturday we were scheduled to run 6 miles, Ariel had extra energy and ran an extra mile...not me, I almost passed out when I got to 6 miles!

After our run we went to Paradiso for lunch...thus the picture with the sombrero (sp?)

Ariel with Grandma Connie.Ariel and Grandpa Russ.

Ariel and Austin. Sorry Austin it looks like we woke you from a nap!

Ariel and friend Chelsey from Bemidji.Ariel and friends Tommy and Irena.
Ariel and Chelsey Z.

Ariel, Lisa, and Steve

Ariel and Michelle Abernathey

Michelle Lerud and Steve

Tim, Ariel, and Barb Andrew's mom Bonnie, friend Mike, Ariel, Andrew's sister Andrea
Andrew's Dad Terry, Ariel, and Terry's friend Lisa
Auntie Barb buying Ariel her first shot (legally anyways!).

Andrew and Ariel
Jacob, Ariel, and Scott Abernathey

Ariel and Nick

Jessica, Ariel, and Barb

Jake, Andrew, Ariel, and ChelseyScott, Jake, Ariel, Andrew, and ChelseyOk bottoms up! Oooohh...what was that!

Nate, Jessica, Ariel and Andrew

OK cut her off!!!

Ariel and Luke Demers

Ariel and Andrew

Luke, Ariel, Andrea (Andrew's Sister), Chelsey, and Chelsey

Irena and Ariel

Dancing at Charlie Brown's

Steve and all the girls!

Sping Break in AZ with G & G

Ariel, Austin, and Andrew (Ariel's boyfriend) spent part of their Spring break in Arizona with their Grandma and Grandpa.

The kids flew out of Minneapolis on Saturday and got into Phoenix around 9:00pm. Grandma and Grandpa were very good hosts. They went to a spring baseball game, I think it was the LA Dodgers and Texas, they went to a dinner theatre one night, went golfing, hung out by the pool, played domino's and 6-5-4, and had a few bonfires. From what it sounds like, a good time was had by all. I was just jealous that I couldn't be there with them.

Mexico - Katie and Brian's Wedding

The Altar with the ocean in the background.





Before the ceremony started.











Randy escorting Katie to the Altar.
















Katie and Brian at the altar.





Their married!!



The proud parents....Randy and Merrilee.




Along with the proud Grandparents....Russ, Connie, Brian, Katie, and Donna.



The Wedding party.











This donkey was stationed at the front when the guests walked in....yes it is real!








The head table.











Each table had a vase with flowers and a fish in them.








This would be table 4....we got a little crazy....and maybe a little to loud....but we had fun!

Sister Kim, my mom, and me before the wedding.

Mom and Dad.

Randy, Katie, and Brian.

Me, sister Kim, Mom, Randy, Dad.

Randy and all of the girls!
Kim, Mom, Me, and Dad before beach golf started.

Mom, Me, Kim, and Dad.

Laurie Bakke, Merrilee, and Me.

Katie and Brian.

WWF Wrestlers work out at Anytime Fitness

On Friday, January 9th we had Randy Orton and Rey Mysterio of WWF work out at our club in Winnipeg. They were performing at the MTS Center that night with about 12,000 tickets sold. After Randy finished his workout he said, "I have worked out at gyms all over the world and this is one of the nicest gyms I have worked out in. It is clean and the equipment is great. It is not too big, and not too small." So of course Steve and I thought that was great! So we have had our first celebraties work out at the club.

Christmas 2008

Meghan, Ariel, Katie, Matt, Randy, Austin, Andrew, Brian, Steve, Stacy, Rylan, Nick, MacKenzie, Lanae, Merrilee, and Lisa

Andrew, Austin, Brian, Matt, Nick, Katie, Ariel, Ryan, Meghan, Lanae, MacKenzie

Ariel and Andrew





Austin and Brian
Matt

Lanae, MacKenzie, and Nick


Rylan



Randy, Merrilee, Katie, and Stacy




Meghan

Stacy, Nate, Breckun, Jake, Austin, Matt, Andrew, Joey, Steve, Barb, Tim, Meghan, Jessica,Duncan, Josh, Stetsen, Lindsay, Ariel, and Lisa

Nate, Breckun, Jake, Austin, Matt, Andrew, Joey, Meghan, Jessica, Duncan, Josh, Stetsen, Lindsay, Ariel
Josh and Stetson

Winnipeg....Car Theft Capital of Canada

Well I thought I would start my Wednesday morning off right and get up and go to the club and workout. So 6:15 a.m. I head out to my vehicle, it is getting a little cooler in the mornings so I hit the auto start before I got to my car. I noticed the blinker light was going and thought that was odd...I must have hit it on my way out last night. So I proceed to unlock the door (using my remote unlock button) and get into the vehicle. When I get in the car my passport is laying on my seat, things from the glove compartment are on the floor, the panels that cover the steering wheel area by the ignition (not real good with car terminology!) are on the floor, so there are wires exposed and my ignition unit is totally ruined. Somebody tried to steal my car last night, they couldn't get it to start, so just left it damaged so I couldn't drive it either.



So I proceed to call the police. They take the information, but do not come out and look at the vehicle or anything. Apparently there are approximately 40 car thefts every couple of days here in Winnipeg! I than call our insurance company to report the damage. The vehicle needs to be towed and brought to a repair shop. Thank goodness for the internet! I have no clue who to call so I just start looking for the info on the net. After about 3 hours I finally get the car towed, call a taxi and make it to the club. Thank goodness I did not have anything real valuable in the car and that they didn't steal my passport, can you believe they didn't take my Kenny Rogers CD's! Unfortunately it sounds like it is going to take 4 - 5 weeks to get the vehicle fixed. Apparently it takes an adjuster up to 2 weeks or so to go look at the car.

The rest of the day I just felt frazzled (I am not even sure that is a word). So I was looking forward to the end of the work day. Well about 6:30 one of the members lets me know that one of the toilets is clogged. So I go check it out and it is not just one toilet, but all four!! Holy...welcome to owning your own business....in a big city.....in another country, and all by yourself! Gals....I sure needed a couple of teas tonight!