Mother’s Day recap finally

A little behind on my Mother’s Day activities post. Trent was going to surprise me and go to Brookfield Zoo. He had been outside on Sat. and thought it was still cold, so didn’t think it would that nice out. I really wanted to go out for breakfast and just go up to Ikea. So that is what we did!

It has been over 6 yrs since we had been up to Ikea. I realized that there is a newer store now in Bolingbrook that is closer to us, so we went out there.

I kind of had to psych E up in to going. He didn’t know what Ikea was, of course. I explained that is was a store and would have little rooms setup. Oh, and I got him all excited about the escalator for the shopping carts. Well, the Bolingbrook store does not have a cart escalator! No prob, he totally forgot about it by the time we were there!

Ethan seemed to love checking out all the little rooms. He had to type on EVERY computer keyboard and turn on EVERY tv in the room setups. Everytime. They were just props, but they are really realistic!

  

Ethan seemed to love checking out all the little rooms. He had to type on EVERY computer keyboard and turn on EVERY tv in the room setups. Everytime. They were just props, but they are really realistic!

I really didn’t get anything big and exciting. Ethan got the neatest stuff. A cool play tent for $10 and this hanging pocket shelf that was castlelike. I still need to hang it up in his room, I want to throw some stuffed animals in it.

I had heard about their cinnamon rolls, 6 nice sized rolls for $4! So we had to get some on the way out.

Trent had heard there was a Bass Pro Shops across the street that had a nice restaurant.

This was the entrance from inside the store…

E surprised us and order a chocolate shake, instead of his usual choc milk! Darn kid can read the menu now!

It was a great place, Fish Company Restaurant. I got the shrimp boat – 3 types of shrimp, yum!  Our waiter suggested the appetizer of alligator, and Ethan thought that was weird. So we had to try it out! When it arrived to our table it just looked like chicken nuggets, and that is what E thought it was when he asked us. So being good parents, we had to lie and say that it was just chicken nuggets!! That kid would not have tried it if we didn’t. E ate it up, no problem! It was really heavily breaded and rather peppery. He didn’t even complain that it was spicy! The alligator was a mixture of fish & chicken tasting, but really it was mostly that breading!

Yes, I totally bought that “My Mom Rocks” shirt for him, but I forgot about it and laid out a different outfit. Hubster actually remembered it and told him to put it on!! He has one that says “My dad rocks” with a drum kit, too. I better remember it for Father’s Day, huh?

They had a huge aquarium in the restaurant that divided the bar and dining area.

Fun to see all those fish and it was an awesome display.

 

We walked around some at Outdoor World, which is so not me!

 

There were more fish in there that were huge!

 

We all had fun checking everything out and trying on stuff…

  

I am so lucky to be Mommy to this cute, sweet boy…

WE got home in time to go over to see Trent’s mom. My mom went to see her mother, so she didn’t get her gift until Tues.

Idol Finale Tonight!!

Last night’s show really didn’t wow me. I did like Adam’s performance better overall. I think his 2nd song was the best of his. I liked the r&b feel.

Last night I think every blog review I read was voting for Kris. That made me call in for sure for Adam! I kept getting busy signals, but by 10 till I had luck and put in about 15 votes.

My idol winner is:

 

T wanted us to go to the game tonight, but I said no because I can’t miss the Idol finale!!

It was soo nice out here today. I went out and did a quick errand and it was just nice to drive with the windows down!

Ready for Spring/Summer

We received our tax refund and I let T get a new grill. We have had it almost 10 yrs, so really needed an upgrade. 

Trent is really happy with it. The rest of the refund is just going into our heloc, I don’t want to spend it!

Ethan is loving our wii! Trent has been playing competitions of MarioKart against guys he knows from poker online. Love this pic of E, he is so happy pointing to his score, in which he beat some guy!

I know, it doesn’t show up. How cute is he?

I took off Monday, May4 to attend the wake & funeral for Tim. There was a small private service on Tues. I was able to get 2 comped rooms at SpringHill Suites thru work. It was nice and a good location. I was happy to get a room for Zubie & David, too. She planned a toast for Tim at local bar Monday night after the wake.

Here we are with our band directors from high school. We were all in band together. It was a nice time of memories.

There was a big table of about 15 friends from college and another table of high school friends. Zubie asked who would like to say the toast and I said, it would definitely need to be you! I think Tim would think it was great that all those friends were there.

Making up Mother’s Day gifts tonight. Wonder what T is planning? He asked if I wanted to be surprised, I think I do!

Remembering Tim

I lost a friend 4/26/09.  Tim passed away from complications from a heart valve replacement.

I have never prayed for someone so much in my  life. I feel so blessed to have known him. I have many fun memories with him from high school and college days.

Wish we were able to all get together, I hadn’t seen him for 4-5 years.  We did keep in touch with Christmas cards. I’m happy he was at my wedding, and I at his wedding.

 

Prayers to his wife and mother, and his sister and brother. It is still shocking to believe he is gone. We will all miss him.

Bulldogs at Railcats

We went to see the high school boys play at Gary Railcats last Sat. with Trent. We were wondering if it would end up raining, but they got their game in before the rain came.      Ethan and I had fun sitting in various sections and he loved that he got to eat way too much junk. He had 2 hot dogs and popcorn & shared my diet coke.

He was playing velcro ball catch with this little girl for a little bit, too.

 

CP won, which was great, too!

Easter Recap

We didn’t color eggs until Saturday. E had a fever for 3 days, Fri-Mon. When I was getting everything ready for coloring eggs he was standing next to me shivering! Oh, knew he had a fever again. We kept giving him children’s tylenol and that brought it down. It was odd, he didnt have a cold and he wasnt complaining at all and didnt look tired.

Our eggs weren’t too amazing since we forgot the vinegar again. When using just water with the tablets the yellow and orange are pointless, they just do not dye the egg.

Need to remember the vinegar for next year!

Ethan woke me up at like 6:15 on Easter Sunday asking if he could look for eggs. This year the Easter bunny left him a note saying he hid 21 eggs around our house.

 

Eggs are always left inside our house, it is still cold at Easter where we live.  He had fun and found all the eggs. 

E with his basket of goodies.

We went to church, the first service as normal.

Then we went to T’s parents around 1:30pm. There was an egg hunt outside at their house this year and the bunny left him 21 eggs there, too! (funny!) 

C still makes up Easter baskets for all of us and this year she put in silly string, in various colors. E and the boys had fun with it and it got all over her living room!

 Uncle D and E playing with their napkin rings!

I brought the choc chip cheesecake bars and the choc nests.

We went to my parent’s house at 4:30. I brought various types of rolls and the little nests. Their egg hunt was inside and E looked for 10 yellow eggs, the cousins had their own colors. This always works out nicely.

 

my parents with their grandkids My new fav pic of the cousins together…so cute!

My fam on Easter at my parents

My mom got the kids these little teddy bears that had a hoodie with a picture of the 3 of them. She ordered it from Snapfish.

Then another meal of ham… the kids got the cute lil choc cake eggs.

On Monday I went to Target to see if they had any Easter decor half off, but I went to late and nothing worthwhile was left. I just got T some Cadbury eggs. We have sooo much candy now in our house. Not good for my diet!

Happy Easter

Getting ready for Easter at our house. I took Fri and Mon off of work.

Today I bought 2 dozen eggs and boiled 1 dozen. We will color them tomorrow. I want to make these neat choc nests

and add in peanut m&ms as eggs. Hopefully it will be fun to make with E.

We have 2 Easter dinners to attend. This year we will go to T’s parents first at 2pm then my parents around 4:30pm. I am making these choc. chop cheesecake bars for first dinner then I’m just bringing 3 types of rolls & the nests for the 2nd.

Touches of spring and Easter around our house..

 

These faux chocolate bunnies are my new fave. I found the smaller one last year at the Dollar Tree and the larger one this year at Joann’s half off.

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Hoping for Spring to come our way!! It actually snowed last Sunday here…in April. My poor tulips. I made a comment about them to E the other day and he told me I should have covered them. How does he know I should have done that? That kid, huh. It should be in the 50s this weekend.

Poor Ethan was running a fever today. We were playing MarioKart, my new fav wii game, and he said he wanted to rest a little and his head hurt. He is always really honest when he doesnt feel right. I took his temp and it was 99.8. I got him a cold wash cloth for his head, my thing he actually likes now. He never really fell asleep. An hour or 2 later we went upstairs and I was on laptop and he fell asleep for around an hr. When he woke up he still seemed out of it, but I thought he just wanted to sleep more. He was just too quiet and just laying around watching tv, so I took his temp again. It was 102.9! Wow, yeah. I got the children’s tylenol and some oj for him super fast! This all happened right when T was coming home for the day.

I took his temp before 9pm as he went to bed and it was at 99.1. Hopefully he feels better tomorrow.

Funny thing

Funny thing just happened that I wanted to remember.

E was just dancing around and T was in the kitchen.

T yells "Are you shakin' your moneymaker?"
Ethan: "What is a moneymaker?"
Ethan: Is it a bank?
we laugh
Ethan: Is it my butt? Is it my bootie?

So cute, had to journal it.