Creepers

Hello all, I am sure by now you have a little blog withdrawal. It's been a crazy couple weeks. I was in Houston 2 weeks ago, with bad weather it took 12 hours to get down, should have been like 4. Had to stay an extra day, got back Thursday night, then went to Somerset then Alexandria that weekend. Then it was X Mas week. No time for blogging. Special apology to Wayner, who created a circle of songs website, you should all check it out. Anyway, Jerry and I were gonna hammer out a tune X Mas Eve, but we didn't really get around to it. Xmas was good. Max enjoyed himself, getting lots of presents and running around with all of his cousins. I hope to have some songs posted soon, some more vids of max, just a better blog in general. You'll have to wait until things calm down, hopefully in the next couple weeks. Enjoy your week everyone.

*** I had something I was going to write about that I thought would be funny and blogworthy, but I of course forgot. I'll have to start carrying around a tape recorder to get my thoughts down. ***


The Hokenson house, thanks to Gary & Carol for their hospitality. Max had a good time with the puppies and the horses.

Kelli had my old baseball jacket from about 8th grade. Still fit! Also, the annual December beard, gonna try and keep it for the next couple months, sorry Sam!
Holding hands, awwwwwwww!
Playing cars
Our best attempt at a kids pic.

Jackson & Max playing hockey
& wrasslin
Xmas day at the Strehlo house.
Relaxing in his new chair.

Nice face sara!
Lars doing a little hula hooping.

The Larson clan.

I'll make you love the Situation

Hello devoted readers. Not too much crazy happened this weekend with the Strehlo's. Max saw santa this weekend, he kinda froze but didnt cry or fuss. This guy goes to Houston tomorrow. Dont get too jealous, only there until Wednesday and its supposed to rain the next 2 days. Boo! Well, I better get to packing, here's some pics.

*** Also, lots of feedback on the list. Maybe another one coming in the future. I think we left out some good ones and there was some disagreement with the final top ten. There's a surpising amount of solid xmas songs out there. Tough to get it down to just 10 songs. ****

*** Anyone recognizing that title is aware of the greatest trashy tv show ever. Jersey Shore, i'll admit it, I love it. ****



This kid was sitting right behind the car and wouldn't move. Lars tried to get him to move but he was having none of it. No parents in sight of course. He was only trying to make sure the kid didnt get hurt but probably looked like a kidnapper to anyone else watching.



Look at my new slippers!

Tis the Season

Hello All, not too much to report at the Strehlo house. Just watching the vikes game. I have a bad feeling about this, of course we are down 14-7 about 1 min after I said that. Put up the ol' Xmas tree today, getting into the holiday spirit, more on that later. Thanks to all those who voted on the poll, I think Sam is able to sleep now. Not sure why but she is a big beatles fan but hates Paul. Maybe she'll come on an explain her feelings. Kinda got a little writers block here. Anyway, me and Sam were discussing xmas tunes yesterday and we decided to post a top 10 best songs. So without further ado in no particular order:

Bing Crosby and David Bowie-Little Drummer Boy
Tom Petty-Christmas All Over Again
Dean Martin – Baby It’s Cold Outside
Judy Garland- Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Wham-Last Christmas
Little Saint Nick-The Beach Boys
Nat King Cole-The Christmas Song
Mariah Carey-All I want for Christmas
Bruce-Santa Claus is coming to town
U2-Baby please come home

Just Missed:

Bing Crosby – White Christmas 12 Days of Christmas – The Muppets,

Otis Redding-White Christmas, Madonna-Santa Baby, John Lennon-So This is Christmas

Brenda Lee-rockin around the Christmas tree,Bobby Helms-Jingle Bell Rock

Band Aid-Do They Know it’s Christmas, Elvis-blue Christmas

Reading in his chair
Sams musical at the Orpheum, our home away from home.
bundled up for winter. It got cold out quick!
Flock of Seagulls?

Wreaths by Seth. Let me know if you are interested. I could pass his info along. $25. What a deal!

I'm right here..... and i always will be

Title is a quote from a Kay Jewler's commercial Sam hates, very cheesy stuff.

Hello all, 2 weeks since the last blog, been busy, been lazy, been bad with taking pics, little bit of everything. Still don't have a ton of pics for ya either. Have to get a vid of Max on here soon too, he's walking more and more every day. Thanksgiving was good, nice seeing the fam, of course we didn't take 1 pic though, you'll have to take our word for it. Just got back from the Henne's, good times. Little Joey is getting to be a pretty big boy.

Speaking of cheesy. heard this Neil Diamond holiday gem on the way home. So awful it was amazing.

Cherry Cherry Christmas

Wish you a very merry, cherry cherry Christmas
and a holly holy holiday, too.
Underneath your tree may there always be
sounds of harmony, not a song sung blue.

I was waiting for him to throw in Forever in Blue Jeans & Shiloh. He got in Red Red Wine and Sweet Caroline in though.

Enough rambling, we have some serious business to get to. On the Beatles brunch today they had someone on that wrote a book that said Paul was better than John and his book detailed why. That led to a lively discussion with me and Sam. Without spilling our thoughts, I thought I would take it to the blog.

Alright though, enough from me. Have a good week!





Eating is hard work.
I'm hungry!



We need to get Max something like that. He loves lounging in that chair.
Pooped after a day of fun.

Busy Busy Busy

Hola blogger readers!

Been a very busy week for the Strehlo's. We had our big grand opening for our new office today, lots of extra hours. I was hobnobbing with the mayor and board of directors from Eagan today, they were there for the big ribbon cutting. We also shot a commercial today and they interviewed me for some reason. I'm pretty sure it will be horrible. Should be on youtube in a couple weeks. Sam has been busy at work with meetings and such as well. Max has been running around like a crazy man. Walking a little bit more each day. Not too much else to report, i'm sure there is plenty missing, but I am too tired to think of them right now. Here's some pics for ya, enjoy the rest of the week.


*** love those commentors, but please watch your language, my son reads this blog, Carrie! Just kidding, loved the story, keep em coming. ******


Little Man's janky ball pit, he loves it.

Get in my belly!
Passed out after an exciting jewelery party.
Jam session with 2/3 of the Pilots

Getting ready to rock out. Great G Pa Chester & Max

Getting the band back together

Hello devoted readers,

not too much new to report here. I went up to Becker to visit the Werner's, sorry no pics, we did lay down a few jams, but I am having some problems with loading the vids onto the computer. Maybe soon. Sam went out to eat with her lady friends while I was gone, no pics from that either, we were bad this week. Not much else new to report, got a little writers block. Not too much to report with Max. He's getting big and is taking a step here and there, still prefers crawling as his main mode of transportation.

*** I was pretty disappointed in today's youth this weekend. Me and Wern played some hoops at the community center, there was some kids kicking a ball around and one time the ball whizzed like 6 inches from my face. No heads up, watch out! nothing. So I glared at the kid and didn't even get a sorry. I really wanted to yell at him, but I didn't. ******

Things have indeed changed

Hello bloggers. Sorry for the late post, been busy. So what's new with us? Not too much. Halloween last weekend, didn't do too much. Me and Sam went to David Gray on Friday night at the Orpheum. Good venue, but I feel like every time we go to a concert it's at the Orpheum. Anyway, it was a really good show. We were a little afraid that it was gonna be too mellow but he rocked it out. No pics from that, you'll have to take our word. Working on a D. Gray song, should be up soon.

Max dressed up as an elephant for halloween, wasn't a big fan of the "hat" deal he had to wear to complete the outfit, great work by Gma Sue on the costume though. I was a little disappointed with the trick or treaters though, is that officially dead? Barely saw any kids out there.

**** Interesting poll #'s. 19 votes, very impressive, was expecting like 12 or so. This basically started because the Henne's think that 2 1/2 men is a good show. I really don't understand how anyone can like that show, I just don't get it. I like bad tv as much as the next guy, but I don't understand how that show can be enjoyable on any level. Little disappointed in the Lost showing, but that's okay, the 2nd season I think turned off a lot of people. I am Very excited for this season though. I liked the poll, maybe i'll post another one here. *****

Random thought of the day: What ever happened to people sporting a rabbits foot on their keychains? They weren't real, were they?