Flowers

Craig and I finally got our flowers.  Hopefully this year they will not die after 4 weeks.  

BBQ at the Ohlanders

Craig and I went to Allison & Scott's for a BBQ and game night.  Holly, David, Stacey and Matt were also there.  We had a great time catching up and playing with Cora.  Cora is such a big girl now.  She calls me Ria and it melts my heart every time.  I love that little girl so much!  She is so sweet and smart!  She will be such a great big sister!  Allison is due in Sept and looks great!  She constantly amazes me!  Love you, Allison!  

We played a game called Apples to Apples and had so much fun!  I need to go out and buy it and practice at it because Craig and I were terrible.   

Hopefully we will do another get together like this soon...it was such a great time!

Stacey & Matt

David & Holly

Playing our game...

Broker Boxing

We went to Broker Boxing at House of Blues which is a charity event for Craig's industry.  This picture was taken in the Foundation Room.

Julia's Track Meet

Here are pictures from Julia's final track meet...

They ended up winning the meet!

Maria & Craig

Craig and I went to dinner at Webster Wine Bar.  Craig has a new app on his iphone for photoshop so he made some changes to the picture. 

Julia's track meet

Julia is running track again this year.  She has done several events including shot put, high jump, 4 x 100 relay and the 4 x 400 relay.  She is such a great athlete and fun to watch.  At this track meet she got the baton in the 4 x 400 with several people ahead of her and passed them and they ended up getting 2nd place.

Julia and her friends at their track meet...

It was very cold and rainy so you can see Ethan and I bundled up...

Bella came too...

Mia's Shower Weekend - Day 3

Denise and I hosted a lingerie shower for Mia at my house on Sunday.  We ate a lot of food, played a wine tasting game and Paula did a hope chest where everyone put words of wisdom on a painted rock and then put it in a small chest that she decorated (very cute!).  For the wine game, everyone had to bring a $10 or under bottle of wine and we put brown bags over the wine so no one knew the name or who brought it.  We tasted all the wines and voted for the 3 best and the winners got a present.  I put together a video of Alex for Mia.  I sent him 30 questions about how they met, first kiss, first gift he gave her, etc and Alex had to answer them on video.  They shot the video from different places like where they had their first date, etc.  Everyone watched the video and I would pause it before Alex answered the question and asked Mia her answer.  It was fun to see them both answer the questions.  They both did a great job!  Always making us laugh!  They are both so funny.  Overall it was such a fun weekend!  We all had such a great time.  I love my family so much!  (We missed you Mindy!!!!!)  I can't wait to see everyone at the wedding in July!  Thanks everyone for coming to Chicago and helping out with everything!

The hope chest...

The words of wisdom in the hope chest...

Mia's yummy cake...

Gift bags, presents for the wine game and wine for game

Mia's presents...

Watching the video Alex made...