Golf success in recent weeks

It has been a good summer of golf for me, although strangely I don't feel like I have played that well:

• My golf partner in the Lilly Golf League, Rick, and I won the Regular Season championship. A knock down drag out 23 week competition of playing multiple teams. We had a slim margin going into the last week and barely hung on to win. It was the second time I have won the regular season in that league in 4 years.
• I played in Toni's dad's company golf outing and won closest to the pin which was worth a brand new 56 degree sand wedge. Also, I played with Toni's mom and another guy...only three people in a 4 person scramble...to finish just one shot out of first place. Bummer.
• Yesterday I played in a Ryder Cup style event with LastMinuteGolfer.com at Royal Hylands Golf Club with a guy named Brad from Lilly. He and I ended up winning the rain-shortened event by 4 strokes! And we birdied 3 holes that no other team (out of 40 teams) birdied. So we got our entry fee back, won new golf bags, a trophy, two rounds of golf at that course each plus a bunch of points through LastMinuteGolfer.com which equate to more free golf.
• Oh yeah, and I shot a 79 at Purgatory Golf Club with my buddy Bill on Monday at Purgatory Golf Club and beat him by 6 strokes. I bring this up because his Bears beat my Colts the night before, so I had to have the one up on something.

Kids Photo Album

I'll probably not every be very good at putting photos on here of the kids because Toni has created a website using shutterfly where she shares all of the pictures of our kids. You can find it here:

http://abbyandlukephotogallery.shutterfly.com/

Week 1: Colts vs. Bears

Late reaction here, because I was at the game last Sunday night and have been pretty busy this week. But the experience of being at Lucas Oils Stadium for the very first regular season game was pretty neat...at least until the Colts started losing the game. But the introductions of the players, the Tomcat helicopters flying overhead, having the roof and window open, seeing Faith Hill on the super-big HD screens singing the Sunday Night Football song...was all really cool.

The neatest moments were the cheers that Reggie Wayne and Peyton Manning got coming out of the tunnel. Although one thing they missed out on I thought they could have done to make it better...why not save the unveiling of the 2006 Super Bowl banner until the opening part of the first regular season game in the new building? To get the crowd and team all pumped remembering how that felt? But no, it was already there unfurled when I attended the first pre-season game in the building with no fanfare to debut the Super Bowl banner in the new building. I thought that would have been pretty cool. Plus I was there last season for the first regular season game after the Super Bowl win (Colts vs. Saints) when the Super Bowl banner was unfurled, and that was so cool I thought it would be a neat opportunity to experience that twice. Is that asking too much?

Anyway, I think the single play that blew the game was Marvin's fumble returned for a TD. The Colts had momentum and were driving to take the lead, and that play single-handedly changed the complexion of the game. I had my buddy Bill from Chicago at the game with me, and he is now banned from attending any Bears vs. Colts games with me.