Saturday, April 30, 2011

Brooke's 1st Communion

Craig and I drove 5 hours to the St. Louis area (O'Fallon, IL) to visit Chad, Marcie, Brooke and Peyton for Brooke's 1st Communion (she's my goddaughter).  The girls are so cute!  The last time I saw Peyton she was a baby and now she's a big girl!  I'm a terrible friend...I need to make a point to see my friends more often.  

Friday night we went to dinner at an Italian restaurant with Angie, Chris, Marce & Chad.  After dinner we went to Angie's uncle's house for drinks.  Her uncle has a basement full of guy toys (fuseball, etc) so the guys had fun playing with their toys while the girls had fun chatting.  Saturday we went over to Krista & Brian's house to hang out and see her boys.  Her boys Tyler and Lucas are so cute!  It was great seeing Krista.  (missing out girls' weekends and need to do another one soon)  Saturday night we grilled out at Marce and Chad's house and Angie, Chris & Tia came over.  Tia is so cute too!  The kids all had fun hanging out and so did the adults.  We had to get up early for Brooke's 1st Communion on Sunday.  She looked so pretty!  She is growing up so fast.  The service was very nice and they had a nice party afterwards.  We had to leave early because we had to drive back home.  We had the best weekend!  Thanks everyone for such a fun weekend...miss and love you all so much!!

Fri night at Angie's uncles  


Brooke & Peyton


Lucas


Krista & I with our dogs 




Brooke and Tia - how sweet! 


Such a princess!


Ang and I peeling the shrimp for Marcie's amazing grilled shrimp - need the recipe Marce 


Peyton loved Craig and he LOVED her! And all the kids!!


Ang & Tia - so sweet!



Chris and the girls!


Chris and Ang - so in love...




Brooke was so sweet...every time I would ask her to take a picture she would do that cute pose...


Awww...Marce and Brooke - they look so much alike! 


Such a cute family...




Monday, April 25, 2011

Easter Brunch at The Met Club in Willis Tower

We had Easter brunch at The Met Club in Willis Tower.  The view was amazing!  We even got to go straight to the observation deck and go out on the ledge.  I was actually a little scared to go on the ledge for some reason.  It was really cool looking straight down on the street from the top of the building.  After we had brunch we changed and went bowling.  We ended up playing 4 games in 2 hours.  Craig came in first, then me (surprisingly!), then Ethan and Julia.  Everyone played great and it was fun hanging out!  I hope everyone had a great Easter!








On the ledge...






You are never too old for the Easter bunny...

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Bahamas Part II

We went to dinner at the Asian restaurant at the Wyndham Hotel and met such a great family!  They sat next to us and I started talking to them and we really hit it off.  They live in NJ, just 45 min away from my brother and sister-in-law.  Sue and Rob have two boys, Chris and Nick.  We hung out with them several times and had so much fun.  Chris has a little crush on me and wanted to take pictures with me and he gave me a lot of hugs.  They were both so cute and sweet.  We are definitely planning on getting together with them again.






Julia, Nick, Me and Chris


Dinner at Indigo






The second to last night I spotted a boy Julia's age and started talking to his family about their boys (ages 11 and 14) throwing the ball around the next day on the beach with Julia.  Normally her brother Ethan is with us so they always hang out so I wanted to find some people for her to hang out with.  (We really missed Ethan on this trip!!!  It wasn't the same without him!!!)  It turns out that the family is from Quebec, Canada and are moving to Chicago in the next year.  The mother did not speak any English so the father had to translate everything.  They were such a nice family.  Julia hung out with the boys, Tarick and Adam the next day and they even went to dinner with us.  Julia and Tarick were very cute together!


Julia, Adam and Tarick


Both families after dinner... 


Julia also met another girl, Abbey, so she hung out with them too


My little boyfriend Chris...


Me, Chris, Sue and Nick 




Rob, Nick, Sue and Chris - such a nice family 



The view from our hotel room