Random Photo of the Random Moment: Anthony Huber


I desire to wish a warm Congratulations to Anthony Huber, on being the first to post on Random Photo previous to this one!

Due to the fact that I won't be posting much about our trip on this blog, I have decided to continue this program of Random Photo's it until we get home from our trip (August 9th).

So until next time, happy blogging!

Phoenix, Santa Barbara, Back, and Beyond!

Hey Everybody!

I'm blogging from El Paso TX right now, but rather than telling you how I got here, I will simply insert this nifty little link and you can read all about it on our family's blog. The Erber family blog address is: erbersetc.blogspot.com.

Until next time,
Jonathan Erber

Random Photo of the Random Moment: Joshua Erber!


Our last Random Photo winner was Joshua Erber! This picture was taken from the same night as Justin Kelly's "Random" photo.

I am currently posting from Santa Barbara CA, so stay tuned for some photos and stories from our trip. They should be up in about a week or so.
Josh

Random Photo of the Random Moment: Justin Kelly


Our last Random Photo winner was Justin Kelly! Shown in this picture is Justin Kelly, and Joshua Erber (l-r).

And we're not sure why these two always send each other to the ER?

Random Photo of the Random Moment: Nathan Del'


Our most recent winner of the Random Photo of the Random Moment was Nathan Deladurantey! Congratulations Nathan!

This photo was taken at last year's Liberty Day Celebration, as the Erberantey Ensemble performed an original arrangement of Revolutionary Tea.

Obviously it is Nathan in the front, with Joshua, Jonathan and Jeremy (l-r) behind him.

Random Photo of the Random Moment: Josiah Ortega


Our last winner of the Random Photo of the Random Moment was Josiah Ortega!
He is shown in this picture wearing the crown as the King of England next to Jeremy.

Sorry that he wasn't more visible, but after a week of looking this was the only photo of him that we could find!

Happy Birthday Luke!


I'd like to wish a big Happy Birthday to my close friend, colleague and fellow Cub fan Luke VonHolten.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUKE!!!

The Wild Blue Yonder...

Last Christmas, Dad gave me a gift certificate for a free introductory flight lesson. So just last Saturday we decided to head over to Dacy Airport (about two minutes from our house) and go up for a flight.


It was really great, we spent about an hour going over the plane to make sure that it was ready for flight. It usually doesn't take this long to do a pre-flight inspection, but she explained everything that she was looking for and what each part/sensor/device did.




After that was done we got into the plane, started the engine, checked all of the controls, and headed for the runway.



Should I take off without her???



Once we were off the runway she handed the controls over to me, and announced that "it's all yours"! I think that she regretted that later... just kidding. After we were up to about 1700' we circled around, saw our house (we are the gray house in the trees just to the right of the pool), and then headed North East towards Lake Geneva. It was Saturday so the lake looked really neat covered with sailboats.


From there we went slightly more East to see the really cool corn maze that is pictured above, we circled around this and headed for home. Once we came into the last leg of the landing pattern and started heading in toward the runway, she took back most of the controls and we touched down just fine. After we had slowed down to about 30MPH she let me taxi back to the office. This was probably the hardest part because you steer with your feet by pushing the pedals back and forth, but you also break by tilting the pedals up and down. Needless to say, I couldn't taxi in a straight line. Over all, it was really a neat experience, and I hope I can get my own plane someday.

Independence Day Celebration

The Independence Day festivities started out around 4:00pm… Oops, I missed something… The festivities started out at 9:30am as the breakfast bell rang calling everyone to an extremely delicious waffle breakfast, loaded with strawberry sauce and whipped cream. WOW! Thank you Jessica! Then various ones of us cleaned up the house, played games, sat around and read, prepared for an evening with Jeremy and Sara, and oh yes, some did find sleeping the activity of choice (not me). Then around 11:00am the plans changed, because the Savinos (our next-door neighbors) invited us over for a cook-out that evening with a bunch of their friends and relatives. So around 4:00pm we headed over there. Dinner was great! There was more food than you can imagine, and their ENTIRE dinner table was covered with desserts! BTW: they have 11 kids, so the table wasn’t small either. The food was great, but not to be ignored were the fireworks that evening. Around 9:00pm we headed to Sharon WI, where we prepared a spot on the lawn as close as we could get to where the fireworks would be launched.



Then the show began:


It was really neat; the fireworks were almost directly over our heads! The grand finale was absolutely amazing, there were probably 5 fireworks a second for about a whole minute! I think I can safely say that this was the best firework show that I have ever been to.


After this we headed back to the Savino’s around 10:30pm where the real fun started with a home made firework show put on by Matt and Tony Savino, Jeff Nye, and Phil Newhouse.

Phil launching fireworks with a flare in his mouth.


Sparklers for everyone!


WOW!


More Fireworks!!!


Then around 12:30am the show ended with an incredible grand finale.
(Hopefully I will have a video of this Grand Finale available soon).

Thanks so much Savinos for the wonderful evening!

Random Photo of the Random Moment


Hey Everybody!

Our first winner of the July program for the Random Photo of the Random Moment, was Ryan Kelly! Congradulations Ryan!

Shown in the picture above from Left to Right is: Jeremy, Joshua, Ryan Kelly, Jessica, Jeanine, and Justin Kelly.

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For those of you that missed the rules for the July program, it goes like this:
Whoever is the first person to post a comment on any Random Photo of the Random Moment, will be shown in the next Random Photo! Of course I don't have pictures of everyone in the world, so if I don't have a picture of the first person that comments, I will simply skip over this person and wait for the first person that I do have a photo of.