Scrubs Direct has a new location!

November has been a busy month for us. We decided that since we are not running the mobile store during the winter months, that we would try out running a retail store at the mall. So....it all happened very quickly. Max did the research and about a week later, we signed a lease at the Maplewood Mall in Maplewood Mn. So Scrubs Direct now has a new location. We really have high hopes that this store will do well. We would like to run the retail store as well as the mobile store in the spring, so pray for us that this works out.

Halloween 09

Gavin was Dracula for Halloween this year. He loved the fake vampire teeth and has been wearing them around the house all month. This year we stayed in Hudson for Halloween. We went to our church pumpkin carving on Friday night and did "trunk or treating" for the first time. It was fun, but would have been better if it wasn't raining! yuck.
On Saturday (Halloween) we went to the Hudson Rotary costume contest. We had never been there before, so wanted to try it. It was freeeeeezing, but we did the parade and left. It would be a fun event with better weather. Then at night, we went trick or treating, of course. Gavin had a great time. He kept saying, "one more house"!







Here is Gavin trying to wash off all of the make-up and hair dye. The water was black! I was just glad that it all washed off. I was worried that he was going to have black hair for a while.

Gavin

I just wanted to write a bit about what Gavin is doing these days. He is just growing and changing so quickly and I want to make sure that I write some of these things down.
He is enjoying kindergarten and is learning a lot. He is finding patterns around the house, learning about reading and taught me the difference between fiction and non-fiction tonight during book time. Right now he is really looking forward to Halloween. He loves dressing up and is going to be a vampire for Halloween.
We usually carve a pumpkin with Grandma and Grandpa Ericson before Halloween, but Gav and I were ill this weekend, so we carved it last night.



Here is Gavin scooping out the pumpkin.






Gavin drew the face on the pumpkin and then I carved it out for him.



Here is Gavin with his Jack-O-Lantern (making spooky faces).




Here is Gavin with his Vampire teeth for his Halloween costume.


Some of Gavin's favorite things to do these days :



Cast his fishing pole in the house with various items tied to the end of the line....
His favorite has been a kitchen towel since it casts nicely and he doesn't get in trouble when he hits stuff in the house with it. Also tied to the line at one time: bicycle horn, vampire teeth, small blankets, paper airplanes, other various toys....

Making Paper airplanes.....
Lots of paper airplanes! There are paper airplanes everywhere in this house. Gavin turns every scrap of paper he can find into an airplane. Don't leave any important papers out in the open because odds are, it may be flying across the room soon.

Gavin also loves:

Taking Pictures

Making Books

Cooking

Scooby Doo

Playdoh

Chinese Food

Kale (although the feeling may not be mutual)

Going "Up North"

Art projects

Mom's 50th Birthday Party

On October 1st, Mom turned 50! Sarah and I planned a surprise 50th Birthday Party for her on Oct 3rd. I think that she was surprised. We had lots of wonderful friends and family come to wish mom a happy birthday. We also had some yummy cakes, music, dancing, and Karaoke. I think a fun time was had by all.

Mom's Birthday cakes......
almond poppy seed, black forrest cake, and strawberry vanilla.
Way to not go overboard Sarah :)


Mom with brother and sisters.
Tracie, Kathy, Denise, Mom, Tom, Jody


Kris, Mom, and Sarah

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM, WE LOVE YOU.

First Day of Kindergarten

First day of Kindergarten. 9/2/09

Gavin and mom waiting for the bus.

Gavin getting on the school bus for the first time.

Gavin after his first day of Kindergarten.

Gavin started Kindergarten on 9/2/09. He was very excited to start and to ride the bus all by himself. He said that he had a good day at school. He likes his teacher and his favorite parts of the day were recess and snack and of course, riding the bus. I am very excited for this year for Gavin. I think it is going to be a big year for him.

Canada

On August 9th, Max and I took a trip to Canada along with Sarah and Chris. We drove up making many stops along the way for the various items that we forgot and stayed the night in International Falls, Mn. We got up bright and early Sunday morning and headed across the border to Canada. Across the border, we saw saw a wolf and then a bear, which was a sign of what was yet to come on this trip. We drove to Hyatt's Manion Lake Resort where we got checked in and loaded up the boat with all of our gear to head to the cabin. We had to drive the boat across the lake where we then had to load it onto a trailer and portage it over to the next lake. My rain gear served a double purpose as we were waiting to portage both boats over to the other lake because it was not only raining, we were also being swarmed by bird-sized mosquitos.
We got both boats onto Petitt late safely and got to the cabin. We unloaded pretty quickly and the guys went out fishing. We spent most of the week fishing, eating, or reading. On the warmest day, we headed out to Sand Beach. We brought our supplies for a shore lunch and spent the day there. We fished, climbed to the top of a mini water fall stream, and picked lots of blueberries on Sand Beach. There were an amazing amount of blueberries on the beach. You could look back into the forrest and they seemed to go on forever. So we ate a ton of them and also brought back a bunch to eat in the morning for blueberry pancakes. At lunch time, we took our fish and supplies and went to Hyatt's cabin that was on Sand Beach. There is a beautiful cabin there that looks like it is sitting on a huge rock. We cooked up our shore lunch, ate, and then fished our way back to the other lake and back to the cabin. We were all tired and had gotten a lot of sun that day.

The next day Sarah and I decided just to relax at the cabin while the guys left to hike over to another lake. I wasn't feeling the best and decided that I didn't really want to hike into another lake to fish. Sarah and I stayed at the cabin and read our books. It was getting nice out so we went down on the beach and read for a while. It was a little windy and the waves were crashing against the shore very loudly. It sounded like ocean waves crashing and was starting to put me to sleep. I decided to go into the cabin to take a nap and Sarah went out to lay on the dock and read her book. She was there for quite a while reading in the warm sunlight with the waves crashing. She said that it felt like she was sitting on the beach in Mexico when she rolled over and looked toward the cabin and suddenly it WASN'T like Mexico AT ALL. Standing near the cabin was a Black Bear. Sarah sat a minute but decided she probably shouldnt sit there so she waited until the bear turned toward the woods and ran into the cabin. She woke me up and we went and looked out the window. In a few minutes, we saw the bear again. We thought that we would wait a while before going outside again since we were alone at the cabin. We played some cards and blasted the radio hoping we wouldn't see the bear again. But after about an hour I saw the bear just wondering around outside the cabin even though the radio was blasting pointed out the window. So we decided not to go outside for the rest of the day even though it was gorgeous out.
The guys got back from fishing and we told them about the bear and we were getting ready to go over to our friend Dan's cabin when I noticed that I was very sunburned on my ears from the day before. I got a little too upset about it and passed out and scared Sarah. Sorry Sarah. When I was feeling a little better, we went over to Dan's for a while, but ended up coming back because I still wasn't feeling good. Bummer of an ending to our trip, but overall an Ok trip. Probably not the vacation that I would choose for myself in the future. Next year....something tropical and closer to civilization.

Summer 09

Its already the middle of summer! We have been very busy this summer, but it has been a fun summer. I was very glad to see summer break come. I was exhausted with working at school and helping to get the business up and running. I am continuing to work with our business with the accounting and paperwork end of things. It is still a lot of work but feels much better to not have to do both jobs at the same time. Everything is going well with Scrubs Direct. Max is on the road quite a bit, but I think that this business venture is going to be successful. We have the traveling sales and the website up and running. Our website is http://www.myscrubsdirect.com/.


After school got out in THE MIDDLE OF JUNE, my friend Jolynn and I were excited to go to Country Splash. It was the first time that either of us had tried out this country music fest and we had a blast. We saw Kenny Chesney, Little Big Town, Lady Antebellum, Rascal Flatts, Darius Rucker, Miranda Lambert, Clay Walker, SheDaisy, Jason Micheal Carrol, The Dweebs, and others. It was a great time. I think our favorite was Darius Rucker by far. He threw his hat out in the audience and Jolynn caught it. Oh yeah, we were sitting in the second row by then. We will be looking forward to attending next year. We should find out where our seats are soon.

The above picture is Jolynn and I with someone who looks a whole lot like Kenny Chesney, but actually was a guy that was sitting a couple of rows back with his wife.

















During May and June, Gavin played TBall. I think that he liked it, but will be looking forward to playing on an older team next year. It is hard for kids that young to pay attention for that long. It gets kind of boring for him sometimes waiting for all of the kids to take a turn at bat.




















During the Last week in June, I went to Summerfest in Milwaukee with Jolynn. Summerfest is the world's largest music festival. We originally bought tickets to see Bon Jovi, but ended up buying tickets to also see Counting Crows and Keith Urban (my favorite). It was a great time and a new experience traveling down to the festival on the shuttle bus from a bar near our hotel (the carry-on drinks were great and much cheaper than the ten dollar drinks at the fest) Both concerts were great, but of course my favorite was Keith Urban. We made a mad dash for the aisle when he started playing his guitar while walking up to the middle of the ampitheatre. He is so great in that he always goes out into the audience. I got a chance to see him up close and grabbed his arm while he was playing. ;) We are looking forward to seeing him at Country Splash next year. We are hoping to have great seats for that.
















Here are a couple of pictures taken from the Summerfest grounds looking out onto Lake Michigan. Its a really gorgeous place.









During the first week in July, Max, Gavin and I traveled up to Minong for the Ericson family reunion. It was nice to catch up with everyone and had a fun time with the family. As always there were lots of activities. We golfed, played frisbee golf, fished, had a skeet shoot, watched fireworks, played washers and beanbags, and ate a ton. Gavin had a fun time playing with all of his cousins. He never wanted to leave at the end of the day.












During the second week of July, Gavin had swim lessons every day in the afternoon, so we kept busy with that. He passed another class and is starting to swim like a fish! He loves dunking under water and swimming under water. He is learning new strokes like the back stroke.
Gavin and I also went on a sales trip with Max this summer to South Dakota and Nebraska. Gavin was a very good traveler and even helped us move the scrubs in to the sale when we arrived in Nebraska. He spent much of the trip under a table watching Rugrats while we worked at the scrub sale. But we did take some time out for some fun at the pool. Swimming was Gavin's favorite part of the trip.



Brynn and Derrick got married on July 11, 2009. It was a gorgeous wedding. Here is a picture of the whole Burnosky clan.








This week, at the end of July, Gavin and I flew out to Denver to visit my Dad, Lori, and Jacob. We had a great time there. We visited the Denver Zoo, went to the water park, went to a couple of estate sales with Dad, ate lots of local food, swam at the hotel pool, and visited a lot. Gavin and Jake were really looking forward to seeing each other.

April Snow

Gavin had fun today playing out in the new snow with his four-wheeler. Today was the first day we let him take it out since fall. Usually he doesn't ride it out in the snow. He was spinning his wheels quite a bit and getting stuck, but he was having a great time. Shouldn't we be done with the snow by now? C'mon Spring!

Kindergarten Roundup

Gavin had Kindergarten registration in the River Falls school District today. He said, "Mom, I'm nervous". But he did really well. I was afraid that he wouldn't answer any of their questions, but he did. The kindergarten teacher came back and said that he did really well and he's ready for kindergarten. She asked him to draw a picture of himself and he drew a box first and then drew a picture in it. She said she has never seen that before. Well leave it up to Gavin to be different.
We have been contemplating whether to send him to River Falls or Hudson. He got accepted to Hudson with open enrollment. But he would have to be driven everyday if he went to Hudson since we are out of district. But if we sent him to Hudson, we would be on the same school schedule. I just don't know what to do. I am leaning toward sending him to River Falls.

Minong

Here is a link to a blog that someone wrote about Minong. Interesting.....

http://sawyertravel.blogspot.com/2008/08/visit-to-minong-wisconsin.html

Spring is here.

It is going to be a busy spring for us here. Max is continuing with the sales and it is going well, just extremely busy. On Friday, someone ran into the back of the trailer while he was on his way home from a sale. So now, we have to deal with that and get that fixed. Luckily, there wasn't too much damage. The person at fault had a lot more damage than we did.

Today, Gavin decided that he needed a haircut and chopped the front of his hair. I was NOT happy with him. Here is a picture of him after he gave himself a haircut AND another after I had to take him in to get it straightened out. It is very short now. He is making a face in the first picture because he knew he was in big trouble and didn't want to get his picture taken.

Here are a couple of pictures of Gavin riding his bike out in the driveway today. It was really nice out today, almost 70 degrees. He put a 2x4 over a puddle and was riding over it and trying to do tricks. He was pretty proud of himself, so I got the camera. He thought that I was going to take a picture of him, he didn't know that I was taking a video of him. Watch the video below. It was pretty funny. Gavin likes to watch it over and over. He has watched it about 15 times already.

March so far.....

Well, we have made it through the first two weeks of operating the business. We are putting in a lot of hours right now, but we hope that once we get organized, that we will not be spending every waking minute on the business. We think that we have our computer issues solved (Thanks John!!). Everything will be easier once I am done with school for the year. Then I will be able to help out a little more. I still haven't gotten a picture of the mobile store/ trailer, but once I do, I will put it up for everyone to see. Max is busy building again out there. He ripped out the counter and built a new one last weekend and he wasn't happy with it so he ripped out the new one and is putting in yet another counter this weekend.
Gavin is out enjoying the warm weather and playing in the mud. He is looking forward to being able to play outside more now.
As for me, I am looking forward to summer and concert season. Jolynn and I went and saw one of our favorite bands a couple of weeks ago (Locash Cowboys). We are looking forward to seeing Keith Urban in May. Can't wait.

Here are a couple of pictures of me with the Locash Cowboys (Chris and Preston).

Scrubs Direct

We are on our way to our first sale as Scrubs Direct. We got the trailer ready in the past couple of days and we are on our way. Thanks Angie and Adam for helping us hang up a ton of uniforms. We just stopped at a gas station and checked the back of the trailer and found out that a whole lot of uniforms fell off of the rack. This is very bad news since we spent about 14 hours yesterday hanging them. I sure hope that we will have enough time to get everything done. We are a couple of hours away from the site and will still need to re-hang the items and price them. I will let you know how it goes! Hopefully we have time to sleep tonight.

New Logo

Here is our new Scrubs Direct Logo.

New Business

Hey all,
Well we did it. We signed on the business this week. We are now officially owners of Scrubs Direct. Max has been working like crazy to try to get everything up and running by March. The previous owners have been great and are coaching us through everything. We bought the account list, Trailer, and New truck. We are working on ordering the scrubs and Max is trying to get everything scheduled and organized. I have been trying to help him when I am home. Right now, unfortunately is a very busy time at work for me so I have been working overtime there as well as helping him when I can. Hopefully I don't crash. We have the new logo and are getting all of the new business cards and forms printed up. I will post a card and logo when I get time. I will also post a picture of the new truck and trailer. Soooooo..............Who needs scrubs????

Water Park Weekend

This weekend, we went to the Grand Rios Water park. Gavin has been dying to go play in the water somewhere. He was loving playing in the water, walking under waterfalls and going down the water slides. We went down a bunch of slides together and then he found some friends his age to play with and then he went around the park with them. Unfortunately, he is sensitive to the chlorine and looked like a raccoon after we were done, even with taking a 4 hour break in the middle of the day. His eyes look much better today. He was very sad that we had to leave today. He said that he wished that we could stay there forever. I told him that I thought that his eyes needed a break and we would come back another time. It is a pretty fun weekend get-away and only about an hour from our house.

It was good to have a fun weekend this weekend because the stress starts tomorrow. We will be signing with the bank tomorrow to get the funds for the Scrubs business that we are buying. Everyone say a prayer for us that this venture works out. We will be buying it within the next week or two and then the fun really starts.

Country Music

These are pictures of some country singers that I will see at Country Splash this summer. I have been listening to CMT all day today and am getting very excited for the concert season to start. Can't wait.

Gavin "Hunter"

Gavin enjoys sneaking up on Kale when he is bored. I saw him crawling over to the couch with the binoculars and I had to go get the camera. Of course she would rather swat him across the head. Luckily she has no front claws.