Kids bdays part 2

On Saturday the kids had friend parties -- Sully in the AM, Harper in the PM.  I made cakes for their friend parties.  ...and then helped with the logistics of getting the kids to and from.  T's sister Melanie, Brian and baby Abram arrived on Friday night to take part in the fun of birthday weekend.

While H was enjoying her puppy cupcake cake party, Sully enjoyed watching Rescuebots from the comfort of his new jeep.

Saturday night was early bedtime for all .....as another party was on tap for Sunday.

who loves root beer floats?

It must have been a random warm day in early April.  Strange since the winter lasted through May.

Other random kids photos:

Harper proves she can fit in our big suitcase.  And suggested we pack her and take her on vacation with us.

Sully snuggles with Jordy.

kids + indoor waterpark = winter fun

We met up with Jen, Kenny and the boys in WI Dells for a nice winter break weekend.

Before we left, the kids helped frost and decorate cupcakes for Evan's Bday celebration.

Oh, they taste tested them too!  Notice the green and gold frosting choice :)

We arrived in the Dells with enough time for the kids to run around the condo like bananas before heading to the one of the indoor waterparks before dinner.  During the run around time, Sully managed to run head on into an entertainment center and split open his head (which we discovered later and required a trip to urgent care ....where they told us they could put in a stitch, but then wouldn't be able to swim.  Uh, what?  That makes for a lousy waterpark weekend).  So we all soldiered on without the stitch.

The kids played really well together.

Friday night (after urgent care) we had pizza.  Yum.  And played.  The kids were exhausted.  

Saturday it started all over again.  Waterpark until lunch, Sully napped, then back to the waterpark. The Wilderness Resort has a pretty great set up for a winter getaway.  

We learned from Jennifer how to play Jenga.  Harper learned quick and played against T making a super Jenga tower!

Sully went down the water slides more times than anyone else.  We discovered this was because he became an expert at cutting to the front of the line.  While it was funny sometimes, we did talk to him about waiting his turn.  ...he thought that was much less fun.

We celebrated Evan's bday with cupcakes on Saturday night.

All weekend, the kids enjoyed building blanket forts. 

Lots of fun was had by all.  And hopefully we will do it again next year.

The kids certainly had fun together....

Just a random day in March....

this scene takes place alot at our house.....

Valentine

T and I celebrated a day early. We went for sushi at my favorite place. Yum! And we continued to plan our trip to Portland, Oregon later this year. It was an early night for us, as we are both battling colds.

 

We spent actual Valentine's day eating heart shaped pizza with the kids.

 

Of course my sister sent these wonderful caramels a little early. Glad she did since I gave up sweet treats for Lent.

 

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impromptu weekend

The weekend was filled with friends and fun, all on the spur of the moment.

Friday night we dined with Mike and Kristi (and their two boys) on smoked salmon, prime rib and other deliciousness. After, we went down to the local pond. Ice skating and bonfire! Great winter evening.

Saturday was normal - errands, cleaning, groceries. Then we trekked up to Maple Grove to watch the game at the Moran's. Nicole and Leo stopped by too, so it was a nice catch up. And there were cupcakes!!

Sunday was also a return to normalcy. It is great to get back to reality after the craziness of the holidays!  We met up with my sister for brunch at The Lowbrow.  They make a good brunch!  I had an Elvis breakfast sandwich -- bacon, pb, banana on toasted sourdough.  The bacon pancakes and jalapeno hash looked tasty too!

New Year's Eve 2012

Michael stayed for breakfast, then headed west.

We took the kids to Barnes & Noble so they could spend some gift card gifts.

I met up with Jane for lunch at Twin City Grill. MOA was nuts, but it was great to catch up with Jane.

T and I stayed in, had a great dinner and celebrated the new year with good beer and champagne. I even stayed awake almost to midnight.

The new year started well. Cold though. We made steak & eggs from the leftover steak. And I made pecan waffles in my new maker. The rest of the day was pretty lazy. I did some straightening up, organizing the Xmas decorations (which we took down on Sunday), laundry, reading (picked up "In the Garden of Beasts" by Erik Larson from the library).

T built a great fire to combat the cold. Jordy enjoyed it!

 

 

 

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WI Christmas #2

After celebrating the end of the world with friends on 12/21/2012, we headed to WI once again.

They had just gotten about a foot and a half of snow, so we were both looking forward to playing outside. We arrived Saturday evening with Jennie and the girls pulling in right behind us.

After dinner with the family, we headed out to meet up with some of T's buddies. I think they had fun.

 

 

Sunday we were up and out in the snow before too long. Lots of fun was had by all.

 

 

Sunday night the family played several rounds of Scratch. Super fun. Even though I am not that good at it.

 

Monday T and I decided to take Jordy to Hobb's woods for a bit of a hike. It was a great hike until Jordy went out onto the ice, took off running, and fell through. He got himself out quickly enough and then around like a nut in the snow until we got back to the car.

 

It was happy hour time when we got home. While we noshed and watched Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Santa paid a visit.

 

Santa brought super sweet custom mugs for most of us, T's fav new card game (phase 10), and great dog toys.

 

After dinner, we did family gifts. Then took a walk in the neighborhood to check out the luminaries.

 

More cards (scratch again) were played at night.

Jennie and the girls left early on Christmas Day. Some family came over for lunch. We ate well, drank good beer and played several games of Wii bowling. Fun stuff.

In the evening, we went to see Jack Reacher (which was horrible).

Wednesday we stopped at Rocky Rococco's on the way back to MN.

 

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the weekends fly by

We didn't have any major plans this weekend. And yet is seems to have flown by.

We made cookies:

We tried a few new beers. I liked this one, but it was a little too boozy (at 9.5% alcohol by volume):

We played one game of chess after T realized that my Mom brought this chess set up on Thanksgiving:

O Christmas Tree.

We picked up a Christmas tree on Wednesday night. Jordy was thrilled to have a tree in the middle of the living room.

After dinner on Thursday, we decorated the tree with the kids. It went surprisingly fast. Sully played with one of the truck ornaments for most of the decorating and then decided to hang one or two ornaments before we finished up.

filling in the blanks....

Since I've been sick AND I've been trying to write work blog posts, I have been a slacker on posting here. So here's what else happened.


We met up with Tad and Jessica for dinner. For some reason, I took a picture of this but no pictures of us.

T cooked chili for Annunciation's Chili Cook off. He didn't win despite having several fans of his chili. We learned there is a big difference between excellent chili and chili that wins church chili cook offs.



We drank some of the NC beer sampler. My favorite was the Sisters of the Moon IPA by Mother Earth Brewing.



I caught Jordy checking his Facebook.

Harper lost another front tooth.

I met up with Jane for a quick coffee to celebrate her birthday and catch up.