A Shout Out to All My Fans!

I honestly never think about all the people who may be reading this blog, but at Jackie's baby shower, I found out I had a few readers out there (who fail to leave comments...come on, people, I LIVE for those!) Anyhow, I wanted to share some photos of our great family!

Here's a pic of my Grandma (my Dad's mom!) and her sister, my Aunt Margie (posed with Dan...they TOTALLY love him!) Gigi, as we have lovingly nicknamed my grandma is the fab young lady on your left; Aunt Margie is the cutie on your right!
Here is Aunt Margie's daughter, Sandy and her granddaughter, Kari (avid readers!) These two were GREAT at the shower! We had all these crazy games for them to play and they totally got into them! Thanks gals!
Gigi and Margie had a brother, Robert, who passed away many years ago. His wife, Marian was able to make it to the shower, thanks to her daughter, Cindy (who also happens to work with Jackie and is a nun...isn't that cool?)
Of course I had to put a pick of my FAVORITE sister-in-law (I love her like my real sister, like I've known her all my life!) Here she poses with my beautiful niece, her daughter, Alyssa!!!
How better to end this post then with a picture of Jackie and the soon-to-be 5-times over grandparents!

Chocolate Anyone???

This weekend it was our turn to host a baby shower for my sister and soon to be mommy, Jackie! We decided to have it at her home (she has a great basement with a cool bar and this would aid at delivering presents easier....we just had to bring them upstairs!)

The nursery has been decorated in brown and green polka dots and is really too cute. We opted to use that color scheme and turn it into our theme for the shower. We totally jumped on the whole "brown" bandwagon and had two chocolate fountains, one white chocolate with green food coloring and the other your run of the mill milk chocolate. As far as beverages, the party would not have been complete with a great chocolate martini! Here is our chocolate bar!
Our sister-in-law Allie and niece Alyssa came up to help! I always tell Allie that she should go into party planning as she has such awesome ideas! When we decided to do the chocolate fountains, she decided she could make her own fruit "flower" arrangement! She made two of them and they were amazing!!!
Of course we had to have a Peggy Brown cake. I had her make my favorite cake...the present cake, of course with green and brown polka dots. Jackie chose all chocolate, but as a non chocolate lover, I had to have some white cake options, so we went with cupcakes! (Too bad I didn't have one...doing this whole "biggest loser" thing with a friend and cupcakes certainly aren't on that diet!)
Here Jackie and Steve open a gift (especially for Steve) from his three nephews. Yep, Jack, Nick and Luke got him his own Diaper Champ and the book Everyone Poops! Fun times!
One quick picture amidst all the clean up...Nana, Jackie, Allie and I, all happy that we had a successful shower but sad that we won't be throwing anymore as we are all married and all (soon to be!) with babies!

Jack - The Author!

Tuesday I left work a bit early to go to Jack's Young Author Awards Ceremony! The festivities began at 1:30 and I slid in just before everything started, in time to search for Jack's face among this group of 1st and 2nd graders!
Each writer was called on stage and given a purple ribbon (I'm still getting used to purple and white as our school colors!!!). Jack looked SO proud. I unfortunately don't have any good pictures as I couldn't figure out what setting on our camera would provide enough light! I did manage to get one just before we headed out of school!
Sorry my blogging skills aren't too great...bare with me and turn your head to see Jack's book sitting in Mrs. Lockwood's bunch of books. Jack's book was called, "The Snake Learns to Talk!" He was not only the author, but the illustrator as well!
By the time the program was over, it was almost time to go home, so I got to take Jack (he LOVES being a "car rider!") Of course when he asked if he could have a McFlurry I couldn't resist!!!
I love all three of my boys, but I also treasure the one on one time I get with just one of my sons!

Showering Baby!

Today was Aunt Jackie's St. Louis baby shower thrown by Steve's mom and two sisters. They did such an awesome job. The decorations were too cute with diaper cakes on each table and get this, they had little menus on each place setting where you ordered your soup and salad and they served you...here is what I had - cauliflower soup and this strawberry pecan salad (delish!!!)
And here is proud mom to be, Aunt Jackie, loving her lunch!
Aunt Jackie and Uncle Steve were definitely SHOWERED with great gifts today...little Emma or Henry will certainly be very comfy at home!

Nana and I got Jackie this cute tub (with an amazing saying on it!) filled with everything baby will ever need for one fabulous bath! Because we don't know if it is Henry or Emma, we had to wait on actually painting the name on....so far everyone (except Uncle Steve!) says it is a boy, even our manicurist! I treated Jackie to a mani/pedi yesterday and the woman there looks at Jackie and says, "80% you are having a boy!" In just a few months we shall see!!!
April 17th will be here before we know it!!!

A Night Out With The Girls!

My great friend, Angie invited me out to a local BAR for a girls night out! We met up there Friday night around 9ish...wow, I was sure feeling old as I would much rather have been in my bed then, but once I got there I had a blast! Good conversation, good drinks, great friends! Who could have asked for a better night???

Here is Christa, Jess, Ang, me, and Nicole...gotta love the red cups that WERE full of a fabulous mix called a Juicy Peanut...not exactly sure what is in em, but they sure are good!!!

Lets Go....Rangers???

Dan bought tickets to see the New York Rangers play the Blues in St. Louis months ago! He was so psyched when he first bought them as the Rangers were playing REALLY well (Dan could quote their actual win/losses, but me, not so much!) Anyhow we invited our friends Jeff and Erin (Erin is actually my doctor and helps Dan tremendously with call and such when Dan needs a few hours or a few days off!) Anyhow, I haven't been to a Blues game in years and I don't really follow hockey too much, but it was actually fun! The Rangers lost 2 to 1, but considering they have "tanked" as Dan puts it, he was thrilled the Rangers even scored 1!

Our seats were high, but they were right on the center line (is that even the right term?) so we could see everything!!!
Thankfully Jeff and Erin were not camera shy and allowed me to snap a picture of them for my blog....KATIE, this one is for you!
And here are Dan and I, enjoying a child free Monday night!!! Gotta love his Rangers hat!!!

Playing catch-up!

Luke woke up with pink eye this morning so I got an unexpected day off! I have been able to catch up a bit with my blogging as I have been slacking lately! I still have one more post to do from the Blues game we went to last night, but I also started cleaning out closets and have small messes all over the house! Happy Reading!