Catch up

I'm back!  My husband bought and installed (or whatever you do) a new router so now we have internet again.  Yay!

A quick catch up of the past week or so...

*Last week was a three day work week for me.  I love four day weekends!

*Thursday my mom and I went to Sioux Falls and did a little shopping.  We also met with my uncle for lunch.  He is in good spirits but could really use some prayers.  Baisically the cancer is not responding to the treatments.  It's maybe buying him some time but not going to make him better. 

*I spent the day Friday doing chores and running errands.  I bought this while I was out..

Oh yes I did.  I wanted one of these last year so bad but I decided to wait until after Christmas so I could get it 50% off.  Well, they were gone before Christmas so I couldn't get one.  I was ready this year though.  I cashed out my Toluna money in September so I'd have some money when the trees came out.  This one was the only one on the shelf Friday morning so I grabbed it and put it in my cart.  I got quite a few comments while walking around the store with a Christmas tree in my cart.  Whatever.

*Saturday was Hobo Days for SDSU.  We went to the parade.  Boring, yawn.  I hate that they've changed it so much in the past few years.  Definitely not as entertaining as it used to be.  We did get to see our nephew march in the middle school band though.

A big thanks to the lady who stepped in front of me as I took the picture.  That would be our nephew on the top of her head.

*Saturday night we had supper with my parents.

*David picked up some overtime on Sunday so I had some time to do a little crafting.  I turned these

into this..

and this...

*Today we had our first snowfall of the season.  We just got a light dusting this morning and it's gone now.  I know I'll regret saying this but I'm ready for some snow.  The first few snowfalls are always fun and I can't imagine Christmas with no snow (well I can because we've had a few but it just doesn't feel like Christmas) but by March I'm so sick of it.

Hope you all've been well. I have a lot of posts in Reader to catch up on!

It's Hobo Days!

Yesterday was SDSU's homecoming, also known as Hobo Day. It was definitely more fun as a college student but I still like to go to the parade and football game.

I thought this year's parade was on the boring side. The parade used to feature more homemade "floats" that were obviously not going for a prize but for the "let's see how much crap we can throw together and still drive it down the road" look. The students on the floats used to be a lot funnier too. Ever since moving to D-1 it seems that they've cracked down and the parade has been a little less interesting (but probably more family friendly) each year.

Anyway, a few highlights from the parade:

The Pride. They used to chant funny things and be a lot more entertaining, much more serious now but still very good.

Our nephew in the middle school band.

This guy was pretty entertaining.

And I thought this guy was pretty funny...

I didn't take my camera to the game because I didn't want to hang on to it the whole game, so no pictures. SDSU played Northern Iowa and came away with the win, 24-14.