Happy Mother's Day

Nothing special to report.....easy day. Enjoying family time.

Florida

We left rain in Indiana for ninety degrees and sunshine!! Just returned from our annual "girls" trip to decompress from tax season. Melissa, Kirstine, Jennifer, Lauren and I traveled to Kirstine's Florida home for a long weekend of rest and relaxation. We arrived Wed and immediately went to "Millers" for drinks and lunch. Our next stop was the pool before doing a little grocery and liquor store shopping! Dinner was at an annual destination - Iguana Mias. Thursday we baked poolside and dined at the Watermark. We tried a new restuarant but we forgot about the NFL draft and Bokampers was hosting an NFL draft party with several Miami Dolphin players in attendance - it was packed. We went there Sat. night instead. Friday began at 4 a.m. with the Royal Wedding! Then more sun worshiping. We stayed in Friday night and snacked on pizza. Saturday was more of the same with a dalong game of Poker to complete the night! Sunday was heavenly as we stayed in the sun until we had to check in for our flight home to...........rain. Looking forward to April, 2012.

Happy Birthday Early!

TJ's 12th birthday is just over a month away but as fast as he is growing, we could not risk keeping his new birthday cleats off his feet til then. They are from NikeID where you design your own shoes. "TIGHT"

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!