Well Alright, It's Okay

Greetings readers, busy times for the Strehlo fam this last couple weeks, Memorial Day, birthdays, parties, concerts, etc. Here's some pics from the last weekend. Last night we went to She & Him at First Ave with Jerry & Sara. Good times. They were all business, just whipping through their songs. Concert was excellent, didn't love their encore selection but other than that it was very solid. We did see a girl going barefoot in first ave, that was disgusting. Today we are off to celebrate Lars' b day at famous daves, mmmmmm famous daves.

Got some other big news, looks like the Northernmost Pilots are going to be the last act to perform at the big TomTEN jam this year. Wow, what an honor. Basically in the last 4 years I have went from not playing music at all to jamming every week. Special thanks to the Wrenshall crew for putting this Dingwop together and getting me back to rocking out. Should be great times, Wayne made a pretty cool looking flyer too, you'll have to check out his site.

Onto the Pics!!!


Pooltime, Max loves it. Should be a good way to have some fun and get some rays this summer.

Reading time at the Larsons.
Catching up with his old friends on Thomas Ave.
Taking a break at Nikki's grad party. He was a maniac.
Sam's tequila drink at Bario. Very tasty, I could've chugged the whole thing. I decided to eat one of the cherries in the drink. Wow, that baby was potent.
Potato Sopes.
Minneapolis, turned out to be a nice night. I went a little picture crazy. I won't bore you with the other ones though.
Jerry in front of First Ave. They are in the process of repainting the stars on the outside. Rumor is there redoing the bathrooms and the restaurant. Yep you heard it right restaurant, I guess they will be selling more than hot dogs and nachos, maybe some Pizza is next!

Decided to get a brew and I wanted something a little bigger than the 12 oz.er. I didn't realize this baby was a pint + 8 oz. Quite a mammoth drink. I was basically lugging around a champagne bottle.





Here is the clip of the week, couldn't find a great live one, so this will do. Everyone is pretty subdued here. The older rhythm guitar player in the background was sweet at the concert. He had good energy rocking out, I dug him.

We have to go back!

Hello readers, early Sunday post for you. Nothing too exciting to report. Had a BBQ at the Forys house on Friday, a little band practice on Sat. and Sam and Max are at a baby shower right now. Made some excellent progress toward TomTEN, should have about 10-12 songs for all of our rabid fans, just about all new stuff too. Here are some pics for everyone, enjoy!


Max & his new buddy Calla.
Slide time with Mr. Met

Hanging out by the fire.
would I like Smore? yes please!
Probably one of my top 10 favorite pics. I should go through our shots and get a top ten list. Another project for another time.


Needed a new band photo for the upcoming tour. Here are some outtakes, I am sure Wayne will post the final pic on his blog in the next couple weeks. Stay tuned!

One more quick Lost link for ya, can you tell i am a little pumped for the finale, hopefully it doesn't let me down.

Lost Brotha!

Finally figured out how to post vids. Here are some good ones in honor of lost tonight. Maybe a blog post coming later.

Omas!

Greetings Readers,

Had a little hiatus, didn't feel like blogging last weekend. Got lots of pics for you from Mothers Day and this weekend. Went with the Hennes to the childrens museum on Saturday and that's about the only eventful thing we did. I was prepared for it to be a zoo in there but it wasn't bad at all, very nice!

Time for some weekly awards

The "I don't get it award" - Max has a sudden obsession with Thomas the Train and I don't get it. Have you seen the show? Pretty boring if you ask me, half the shows don't even have a story.

The "Bravo" award- To Wayner and the Drunkards of Ol Wrenshall. Really enjoy the music selection. I was hesistant to check out the Avett Bro's but he put a killer clip on and I checked em out, love em. The new swell season tune is very good as well.

The "I don't know why but it makes me mad" award- You know when you are getting ready to exit and the lane hasn't quite materialized yet but people are in such a hurry to get over to that lane, I hate those people.

The " We should have had this sooner award" - We just got DVR a couple days ago, amazing invention. Haven't put it to full use yet but I am looking forward to.

The "Really, Really????" Award- To the cable guy who managed to go stink up not 1, but both of our bathrooms in one visit. Really, Really??? I'm only glad I wasn't here to go through that uncomfortableness.


Naked Cowboy. Who's sexy leg is that in the background?
Golf cart riding on Mothers day.
Checking out our new wheels. Sam got it at a garage sale for $5. Maybe the best investment we have ever made, it's awesome.

Water section of the museum.


Bubble Time!
Looking a little like Tony Danza here.

Checking out at the grocery store.

Hey Girl Hey!

Sunday night Ice Cream.

Ready to Run

Greetings Readers,

Pretty busy week for the Strehlo's. Sat. we had our 5k in IGH then I headed to a bachelor party for the big boss man (paul). Sunday Sam headed out to another shower for Maggie. Here are some pics from the weekend.

Not too much else to add, how bout a little TV reviews?

Top 3 Shows you should be watching:

1. Breaking Bad - 1st season was excellent, 2nd was pretty darn good, and this season is off to a very good start. Highly recommended.

2. Mad Men- Season 3 is starting fairly soon I think, get on board now.

3. Modern Family - Very funny show, wasn't a huge fan at first but it's coming along.

Do you ever watch some shows/ movies and you don't even know why you are watching them. They aren't horrible but they are not great either. The all time not the great but i'll watch it everytime is the movie Airborne. Caught it on TV last week and of course i HAD to watch it. Check out the clip, amazing! Be on the lookout for a young Jack Black & Seth Green.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN5AF5xwwfg&feature=related


Max decided he needed to join the hula hoop contest.

Then he decided he needed to dance up onstage.

Brutus

Greetings Reader,

Pretty quiet weekend for the Strehlo fam. Sam & Max went to Maggies baby shower Saturday. The little guy should be here in less than 2 months, crazy. Sunday was haircut day, gave myself a cut then we gave Max his first buzz. He took it like a champ, no crying at all. I now cut 3/4 of the house, Sam is my last project. I just noticed we didn't get any good post haircut pics, next time I guess. Got my musical mojo back this week. Been listening to a lot of podcasts lately but I bought some new tunes this weekend. I was checking out some NPR vids on youtube and came across this tune I like alot, I'm penning it the song of the week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu9QH71YKQw

Raphael Saadiq
I actually prefer the 2nd song, "100 Yard Dash" but the first song is pretty good too.

This vid was also pretty cool too just because of guitar playing was pretty amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKd0HNg1kFQ&feature=channel

Hopefully gonna jam after this post too, may have a vid for ya later.
My buddy Brutus
Twins????? I'm coming for you Sam, the barbers gonna put you to sleep and cut that hair!

Max passed out on Thursday night at like 5:00. Must've been a long day at daycare.

Otis sleeping next to his buddy.

Making some dinner.

Getting some exercise after a big lunch.

Pre cut hair.
Getting a quick blowdry.
Just about done with the cut.



Updated pic

Bon Voyage!

Hello readers and greeting to any new readers we snagged this weekend. We went out for a farewell to Sam's BFF Lindsay in Minneapolis. It was a fairly low key night, everyone behaved themselves. We started out at a Sake bar - MotoI. I guess its like the only sake brewery outside of Japan. I sampled some of the stuff and wasn't blown away. Then we went to 1-2 bars after that, nothing too exciting. We also had cake from Cafe Late and I managed to slam 3 pieces in about 15 min. mmmmmmmm! Sunday we had a nice breakfast and walked around by the twins stadium. Got to peak inside a little, looked real nice, very excited to go see a game. Here are some pics from the weekend, enjoy!

Sam in the middle of a HILARIOUS story.
Lindsay & Mel

Stay Classy Ladies

MMMMM cake.....
Ben & Renee
The Eau Claire crowd was pretty pumped there was a toppers in MSP.
Focused on drawing.