Monday Night Rainbow

After a long, dreary, rainy Monday . . . we had a surprise after dinner! You could see both ends of the rainbow, but the clouds covered most of the middle of it. The kids wanted us to jump in the van and see if we could find the end and a pot of gold!! Wouldn't it be nice if it were that easy?

HAPPY 8TH BIRTHDAY ETHAN!

You could say we had a "ROCKIN" fun time in Wheaton this weekend! Ethan got Rockband for his birthday, so we all took turns playing that for about 10 hours straight on Saturday. Adam, Ethan & Auntie did great on guitars while Kelsey & I jammed on the drums. Hope you had a fun birthday weekend, Ethan! We love you!

Look out Eddie Van Halen!

And he's off!

This morning, Rob met Papa 1/2 way to STL to drop Adam off to spend the week down there. Papa said he had a surprise for Adam and the hint he gave him was "blue", so Adam was sure he was going to a St. Louis Blues game. However, when he got to Papa's he found a new blue motor scooter waiting for him! He spent all afternoon riding all around the neighborhood. I think they had a pretty fun 1st day...they played Wii, took Kahlua and Maggie for a walk and then went to see Horton Hears a Who. Adam said it was really good - Papa said it was "okay"! Don't know what they have planned for tomorrow, but I'm sure there will be more scooter riding!!

Happy Birthday DD!

Hope you have a great day!

HAPPY EASTER!

Today we headed down to Virden to celebrate Easter with the Kime's and Ireland's. Since there were snow flurries, we had the egg hunt inside at Sue and Larry's. All the kids were excited looking for eggs and even more excited to open them! Then we rounded everyone up and went to Mama Dee's on the square for a family style dinner. It was so good that I'm pretty sure none of us will be eating dinner tonight! Hope everyone had a Happy Easter!

BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

Okay, so turning 40 ended up not being too horrible after all. I spent the day doing some "kid-free" shopping (thanks, honey!), watched a bunch of shows I had DVR'd and hadn't had time to watch, had a wonderful dinner at Bella Milano (even though the waiter spilled two glasses of water all over our table and one glass crashed to the floor!) and then enjoyed a quiet night at home watching movies with Rob (thanks Grandma and Jane for keeping the kids all night!) I'm truly blessed to have such a wonderful family. Plus, I still have our girls 40th birthday trip to Cancun to look forward to in June! So I guess the moral of the story is that having another birthday, even a "big one", definitely beats the alternative! I just hope I can remember that in 10 years when I hit the next "big one"!

It's official....

I'm finally 40! As much as I've NOT been looking forward to this day, it's starting out to feel pretty much the same as yesterday. I woke up to some beautiful homeade cards from Adam and Emily and a pretty good chorus of Happy Birthday from the family (which ended with Emily jumping in my arms and saying I love you!) I guess it's going to be a good day afterall.

Thanks for all the birthday wishes from all my friends and family!