Easter Celebration Continues

After brunch we traveled to Bill, Diana and Devin's home for "linner" at 2 p.m. Needless to say, although the food looked and smelled fabulous, none of us were hungry but snacked on this and that (mostly desserts). Danelle stuffed 400 egggs and Diana's mom stuffed 100 plastic eggs. Between the 5 kiddos they each scored atleast 100 eggs filled with candy. After emptying them and trading, TJ arrived home with more candy that he did at Halloween this past year and none of it was chocolate - Bummer!

Dinner at 10:30 am, really?

Well, my mistake. I asked my Dad to have his mom (TJ's great grandma) ask for athe early seating for Easter lunch at Greenwood Village where she resides. After being informed of our dinner time, I could not ask her to change it since she did it for me! So....we skipped breakfast and dined on ham, mashed potatos, etc. well before noon. My cousin, Jaime who is attending a conference for work in Chicago all week drove down and joined us for this well timed meal as well as Doug and his girlfriend, Amanda. Of course Dad was there and he is sporting a beard!

Easter Egg Hunt in the Rain

Today we celebrated the Easter holiday with family. However, before venturing south, we discovered that the Easter Bunny hid TJ's eggs outside...it was raining. Todd, Lea and I watched from the covered porch! The bunny knows him well as no candy was within. He scored $9 in coins and several lottery tickets! Perhaps he will win enough to pay his tuition in the Fall. Luckily, his basket which was my dad's as a child as well as mine was found inside the house!

Scooping Poop!

Spring brings many things, including mounds of unwanted material that magically appears when the snow melts. I prefer to do this task when things are still frozen. Lucky for me, TJ was home to fill the bags and he filled several!

Spring Break 2011 - CHICAGO

This year, we did a long weekend in Chicago. We departed Saturday with tickets to the 4 p.m. show of The Blue Man Group. TJ had no idea what to expect and loved the show! We stayed downtown at the Marriott so TJ enjoyed his first taxi ride. His eyes were as big as dinner plates as our driver weaved in and out of traffic!


Sunday morning we visited the Shedd Aquarium. Highly recommend it but arrive early as the entrance lines were very long.



We ate well. We dined at Harry Careys and the Cheesecake Factory. Both times lucked out with seating in the bar so we could catch up on the NCAA games. WAY TO GO BUTLER!!!!!!



TJ wanted to visit Nike Town so we hiked the Magnificient Mile - Ahhhh the stores! Good thing for my wallet that it was too cold to really shop til I dropped.

On Sunday we met up with TJ's classmate, Nolan and his family at the Museum of Science and Industry. Too much to see, do and learn in one day. Must return! Todd and I really enjoyed the Human Body exhibit - TJ saw the first display, went white and sat it out! He will not be burdening us with med school!



All in all it was a great long weekend. We are considering New York for Fall Break!

Ice Skating

Well.......we are pretty sure this is only TJ's second appearance on ice. His Uncle Doug took him ice skating when he was in kindergarten and the report was "he is not a natural" so we skipped the hockey lessons and failed to take him again...until his Orthodontist hosted an ice skating party last week and TJ wanted to go............so I put on skates and helped him around the rink twice before letting go and pushing him the middle with his friends. He did fine and only fell once.

Report Card

It is the end of the third quarter and TJ brought home a report card sporting all As!!!!!