My garden is growing!!!

Just wanted to report that the Fiedler Garden is producing! Radishes and lettuce have been harvested the past few days, and baby green peppers and tomatoes have appeared!





Also . . . Sophi has been eating dirt.

Sophi vs. dog harness

No, we didn't do this to her. It was self-inflicted.

Happy Father's Day!

This slideshow was part of the gift Sophi and I gave Jason for Father's Day today. It's a collection of "father-daughter moments" since Sophi was born. Thanks to my brother, Aaron, for creating it and also to our friend, Brad, for introducing me to this great Paul Simon song.

Happy Father's Day, Jason. Thank you for all you invest into being a father to Sophi.

Sophi - 17 mos.

Jason and I were at the park with Sophi last night for a picnic. We brought along our camera and couldn't help but force Sophi into a photo shoot of sorts. Here are a few of the pictures we took . . .

more on segway golf

lets face it, when you are as bad at golf as i am, bringing it closer to the video game experience can only help. which is where the segway comes in. i may never go back to walking a round of golf again... why? when you could cruise along effortlessly simply by leaning forward or back.

the fun of everyone having never segway'd before was that we all looked equally dorky during the manditory training exercise. but the payoff was well worth it... three hours of floating bliss.


some have wondered who won the round. technology won, for in the end we gave up keeping score and just tooled around the course. as you can see, it was quite dark when we finally rustled those puppies back into the clubhouse corral

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Random Pictures of Recent Happenings

I'm trying a new format for this update of the Fiedler Family Blog. As much as I'd love to compose a beautifully creative and informative blog entry for each one of these very important happenings, it's just not going to happen. We, the Fiedlers, continue to admire all the bloggers in our lives who amaze us daily with their interesting, well-crafted entries. You are cool . . .we are not.




My oldest brother, Steve, and his wife, Wendy, gave birth to a son (their second) on May 31. Welcome Jackson (Jack) Paul Ullmer!

I turned 29.
p.s. I will be 29 next year and the year after also. :)

A group of five guys from our church launch team went golfing at a golf course here in Oshkosh that rents Segways. Yes, Jason flipped his while screwing around. And yes, he had signed a release form obligating him to replace it, should he break it, at a price of $12,000.

My friend, Corrine, introduced me to this GREAT new
online computer game called "Bloons".
It's extremely addicting. Check it out here.

So, there you have it . . . a complete update. :)

How does your garden grow?

This is Amy . . .

First of all, you may have noticed that the frequency of posting has dramatically increased on the Fiedler blog page. Not sure if we'll be able to keep this up, but we have good intentions . . .

Any of you who have ever met my mother, Shirley, know that we are two peas in a pod. We look alike, talk alike, and sound alike - or so I'm told. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised when I realized that, like my mom, I had buried inside of me (no pun intended), an intense love for gardening.

Since moving to Oshkosh in February, I found myself with many of the necessary ingredients for creating and maintaining a successful garden - sunny backyard, more time, a garden friend (yes Andrea, that's you!), and an expert gardener (my mother) who lives 20 minutes away. And so, as the weather began to warm, my dream of having my own vegetable garden began to grow. With my garden journal in hand, some seed packets, and a skeptical husband (I tend to START things with great zeal . . .), I headed out into the Fiedler "back 40" to bust some sod for my little project.

I'm proud to report that nearly a month later, my 10'x10' vegetable garden is in and growing! (Thanks to Sophster and Jason for all their help!). Green beans, brussel sprouts, tomatoes, green peppers, eggplant, zucchini, butternut squash, acorn squash, cucumbers, carrots, lettuce, radishes, and peas . . .all growing in the Fiedler backyard!

Anyway, like I said, Jason and I are determined to do a better job of keeping everyone updated on the goings on around here. For me, that will probably mean a garden update from time to time (bear with me). And please, feel free to stop by in August for some fresh produce! (Of course , we want all of you to feel free to stop by anytime - not just during our bountiful harvest.) :)

sophi fix

it's been a while... too long some might say. so enjoy the latest installment of sophi pics.

taken at a moms group gathering at mom and pops place over in neenah... fair trade organic goods, well worth checking out.


we felt she was old enough for her first car date...

at play in the kitchen. like mother, like daughter.

newest edition and being real

that's right, we are now a part of a movement i like to think of as the "minivan army". not to be confused with the "giant truck with confederate flags in the rear window army".


our green beast, the mazda 626, has had a good life, but we felt we should send it out to pasture. 215,000 miles and loads of memories... we are a bit sad to see it go. but as you can plainly see, it was a good run.

looking at the badly faded paint, the huge dent in the corner (which may or may not have helped pay for tickets to ireland years ago) and the nearly rusted out windshield I can't help but think of the words of the Skin Horse...

"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

thanks 626, for being such a great velveteen vehichle.