Friday, March 30, 2012

Wear 'em out....

We took the kids up to a local park to let them run.  It was a picture perfect morning.  The sun was out, it was warm out and lots of giggles.




Hangin' out with Grandpa Divine





The girls are really in to posing lately....

I just can't get enough of this kid.  He is the sweetest thing on the planet, he has the funniest facial expressions and he makes us laugh all of the time.

"If the girls can do.... so can I"








The girls were playing McDonalds drive through and they charged me $4.99 for diet coke and Dad got 2 burgers, fries, a pie and a drink for $4... I got jipped.

Charlie just got pooped out.  He got his cup and had a seat on the pavement.  I think the girls are good at wearing him out!


The day turned out beautiful.....

After all of the rain, the day turned out to be gorgeous!
Elise reading Charlie a goodnight book.


Then Charlie got up later when Bridgette came over to say hi.... he didn't want to miss the party!



Whatever they are watching.... it must be good.


Charlie gets really excited when they bowl.


The trees were in full bloom.  Matt and Mollie have a beautiful Crab Apple Tree in the back yard.


Lauren talked Grandpa into a wagon ride.

Dad bowling on the Wii.... Elise and Lauren kicked his booty, it was hilarious!










Monday, March 26, 2012

A visit to the Plaza

Most of the fountains were on while we were there.  They have a ton of fountains and statues all over the place there.

Elise wanted her picture taken on EVERY single statue we saw... I have only posted a few but there are lots more.  This one was so cute because the stork's mouth has a hole in it.  There was a family ahead of us with a little baby and they put her in it and took her picture... it was sooo cute.

The tulips were in full bloom down there.... on March 23rd.  Crazy!!!




Lauren didn't really have a good time.  She was tired, bored and whiny... perfect for a day of looking around.  She would much rather be riding her bike, running around at a park or just outide playing.




I think I will just take a little nap right here.





A trip to Matt and Mollie's

We went down to visit Mollie and her family for the end of Spring Break.  Dad and Lucy flew down from Minneapolis on Friday morning.  Once the rain stopped later on Friday, it turned out to be a gorgeous weekend.










Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Baby Boomer or X'er... or somewhere in between???

I found this email from one of my very best friends that died in 2004, Jennifer Waymire.  She sent this to me on July 30th, 1999. 

"This is pretty funny, I am amazed at how many I can relate to...

YOU'RE LOST BETWEEN A BABY BOOMER AND GEN X'ER IF.....

1. You remember when Jordache jeans with a flat comb in the back pocket was cool

2. In your class picture you were wearing an Izod shirt with the collar up.

3. You know by heart the words to any Wierd Al Yankovic song.

4. You ever rang someones doorbell and said, "Land Shark!"

5. Three words:  Atari, Intellivision and Coleco, sound familiar.

6. You remember the premier of MTV, in fact, you remember the Friday Night Videos before the days of MTV.

7. A predominant color in your childhood photos is plaid.

8.  While in high school, you and your friends discussed elaborate plans to get together again at the end of the century and play Prince's "1999" until you passed out partying.

9.  You remember when music that was labeled alternative, really was alternative.  And when alternative comedy really was funny.

10.  You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the minivan.

11.  You rode in the back of a station wagon and you faced the cars behind you.

12.  You've recently horrified yourself by using any one of the following phases:  When I was younger.... When I was your age.... You know, back when....

13.  School house rock played a HUGE part in how you actually learned the English language.

14.  You ever dressed to emulate a person you saw in either Duran Duran, Madonna or Cyndi Lauper video.

15.  The first time you ever kissed someone at at dance came during either "Crazy for you" or "Leather and Lace".

16.  You remember with pain, the sad day when the Green Machine hit the streets and made our old Big Wheel quite obsolete.

17.  The phrase, "Where's the Beef?" still doubles you over with laughter.

18.  You honestly remember when film critics raved that no movie could ever possibly get better special effects than those in the movie Tron.

19.  You had a crush on either Ted the photographer on The Love Boat, Gage from Emergency or Ponch the motorcycle cop from CHIPS.

20.  Your hair at some point in time in the 80's became something which can only be described by the phrase, "I was experimenting."

21.  You've shopped at Benetton.

22.  You're starting to believe now that maybe having kids do to school year round wouldn't be such a bad idea after all.

23.  You're doing absolutely nothing pertaining to your major.

24.  U2 is too popular and mainstream for you now.

25.  You remember trying to guess the episode of the Brady Bunch from the first scene.

26.  You had a front row seat for Luke and Laura's wedding on General Hospital.

27.  Your parents wanted you to attend medical school, but you decided it was pointless since Quincy got all of the babes anyway.

28.  You know who shot JR.

29.  Loves Baby Soft was in every girl's  Christmas stocking.

30.  This ring a bell: ".... and my name is Charlie.  They work for me."

31.  You were unsure if Diet Coke would ever catch on after all.

32.  You know all the words to the double album set of Grease.

33.  You ever had a Dorothy Hammill haircut.

34.  You sat with your friends on a Friday night and dialed 867-5309 to see if Jenny would answer.

35.  "All skate, change directions," means something to you.

36.  You owned a pair of rainbow suspenders just like Mork used to wear.

37.  You bought a pair of Vanns and wanted to order pizza in history class just like Jeff Spicoli.

38.  You owned a preppy handbook.

39.  You were too young to go see the Blue Lagoon so you just had to settle for the second hand reports.

40.  You remember when movies were only PG and R.

41.  You learned to swim about the same time Jaws came out and still carry the emotional scars to this day.

42.  you remember when your cable TV box had a sliding selector to switch.

43.  Your jaw would ache by the time you finished those brick-sized packages of Bazooka gum.

44.  You remember Bo and Luke Duke.

45.  VCR's cost $2,000.

46.  There was nothing strange about Bert and Ernie living together.

47.  You remember rotary dial telephones.

48.  You actually  believed that Mikey, famed for his Life cereal commercials, died after eating a packet of pop rocks and drinking a coke.

49.  The theme song to Greatest American Hero still comes back to you on occasion (BELIEVE IT OR NOT I'M WALKING ON AIR...)

50. "Members only" Jackets, say no more.