More from Cousin Day

Just found a couple more photos from cousin day. Love these, the boys in action.

Serious play time. 

Cousin Day

Remember when the hubs and I took one of our cousins to celebrate their Birthday? Well it was past due that we make do on our promise on E's Brother's Birthday day, a C Day.

We asked C what he wanted to do for his C Day but the weather wasn't permitting of a golf day. So the hubs threw out some different ideas including, going to the movies, an indoor put put and going to Dave & Busters. Once the idea of going to D&B was thrown out, there was no looking back. We were going to order Cs favorite pizza and then hit the arcade.  

When we arrived the hub's eyes were as big as little Cs. The amount of older more mature than Chuckie Cheese games was overwhelming and exciting all at the same time. One of the coolest games that the boys got to enjoy was an interactive sports game. You could play soccer, baseball, basketball, golf or even hockey. The boys took their chance at their best slap shot.

After a long night of pizza and games, we made our way back home for C's big sleep over. We got to catch 1 episode of iCarly and then it was off to bed. C wasn't the only one excited for the sleep over, Minne girl was equally excited to be sharing her room with her new favorite guest.She especially loved listening to prayer time.

We woke up early and had ourselves bowls of cereal and we watched Saturday morning TV. I don't think the hubs nor myself had done that in ages.  IT WAS GREAT. I took the pigskin outside and threw around with little C for a bit while the hubs took care of some errands. Post football, it was time to get ready for, WAIT lets play a game. Can you guess where we went next based off the next photo?

I am guessing the amount of mini vans may have given it away but we went to little Cs soccer game. It was fun to see him play but it was just as fun to watch all the kiddos. Some of them are very serious and already very competitive at this age, others well...not so much. Case in point, look at the photo below. Little C is playing goalie while the 2 defenders are practicing karate on each other.

All in all it was a great C day. We have one more birthday day to celebrate but I think we may have to wait till it get's a little colder because the 3rd cousin wants to go ice skating. Can't wait :)

Babysitting the Cousins

Last Monday I baby sat my cousins who are adorable. Want photos to prove the point? We had color night and ended up with some of these:

Can you guess who this is a picture of? Hint here

A 4.5 year old's homework...coloring her folder, presh!

We also played 1 game of bowling Wii. There were some happy faces and some not so happy faces.

In my book, everyone's a winner!

It was a really good night. Can't wait to do it again soon.

Elite 8 Weekend Summary

As I talked about here, we had a very hectic weekend that happened to fall over Butler's first appearance in an Elite 8.

Our week started with a drive to Elwood with a determination to get to get to the hubs parent's house prior to the Purdue vs Duke tip off. The drive looked like this, full of semis:


Because of all the semis & Chicago traffic I ended up having a very impatient husband and doggie:


When we arrived to Elwood, Minne and her cousin Buddy celebrated while mom and dd ate Pizza King Pizza. Minne continued celebrating the dawgs well through Sunday.

Saturday looked like this:

Lunch and Play date with the Lozers. Landon got to do some of his favorite things including, lunch at 5 Guys, a morning full of boys, some basketball and LEGOS


From there, I made my way to Laura's house for a nice little bridal shower. I can only imagine Minne's jealousy over Laura's Bullies toys:


The shower was beautiful. Jessica helped to host it and definitely used her expertise to help make the shower a success. Case in point, check out these bad boys:


Check out the beautiful bride too, ok ok the photo isn't great but still, couldn't she be a model?


We then headed over to our friend JDs house to drink some Blue Moon (Blue like Bulldawgs) and watch Butler take on K State. Good times were had by all, there was lots of screaming, gaging, crying, yelling...ect by all, I mean me. We didn't take any photos but here's what it looked like:


From there we went to dinner with some of the hubs close friends. Dinner itself was blah but the company was fabuslous. We even got to meet Mr Baby L. I think the hubs was smitten:

Landon especially liked when little "L" passed some gas:


After dinner we drove to Hinkle and waited for 3 hours for the Butler team to arrive back from Salt Lake City. (Had we still been in college we would have had more Butler friends in town to do some celebrating with, unfortunately it was just the hubs and I but it still rocked)


We waited in the cold, we waited in the rain, we waited while college kids passed out, but we waited for the one and only Bulldawgs. So worth it. Best part? Seeing how humble the guys were when they got off the buses? perhaps. Seeing Bobby Fong completely disoriented? perhaps. See Blue II. perhaps. What was really the coolest was surprising one of my BFFs. I think her hat shows it all:


After a long weekend for us, we drove home on Sunday. It didn't even take 2 minutes into the drive till Minne was asleep. I think the hubs and I both felt like she did.


For more about my love of Butler Basketball, read here

Kids Say the Darndest Things

I was going to break into “crazy Candice” but then...E Day 2010 happened. It made for a great day and a great experience so I wanted to share that with you first.

A few months back one of my little cousins had her 4th Birthday. As a gift the hubby and I suggested having an “E” day, where the entire day would be about her (her name starting with an E). This seemed like a good gift idea since she has 2 other siblings and we figured she may like an entire day of attention. Well we figured right!

After months of trying to get a day off from work it happened. We picked little E up around 12:30. We asked her if she’d rather go to Chucky Cheese or the Children’s Museaum...sure enough Chucky Cheese won, which was great for the hubby.



We got to this magical place and asked little E what she would like for lunch and she responded "pizza and cottage cheese." What kid says cottage cheese? We looked at the menu and didn't see cottage cheese as an option so we just ordered pizza. A few minutes later, E asked if the cottage cheese was coming. So we asked one of the girls behind the counter if they had sides of cottage cheese. We were told that there was cottage cheese on the salad bar but if we really wanted it they would give us a bowl for just that. So we got E a bowl of cottage cheese and pizza, just as she ordered it.

After the lunch was over (the pizza was terrible by the way) the games began. The hubs might have had more fun than little miss E, especially after a few glasses of Mellow Yellow (my hubs favorite drink that they served everywhere in Minnesota and no where in Chicago). It was here that E asked to go to the bathroom. When we asked her if she needed help and she responded only when she goes number 3. Do you know what number 3 is? We didn’t, so we asked her and she told us. We couldn’t believe how forward and honest she was so we giggled to ourselves and went on with the day.

After winning some candy and a lip gloss watch from Chucky Cheese we asked E if she wanted to head to our house or go sledding. E said let’s go home so we can play with Minne (that’s our wonder dog). We got home and Minne greeted us with lots of kisses.

Through out the rest of the evening we just let E pick everything she wanted to do and everything she wanted to eat as the day was entirely about her. Towards the end of the night she said, “lets pretend tomorrow is E day too.”

She said some really other cute things too. At one point, we told her that hubby's birthday was next week. She asked how old he would be and we told her 29. Her response? "Oh like a grandpa." Obviously my husband is no where close to being a grandpa so it made us laugh for quite a bit.

E was abel to stay the night and experience her first sleep over. We watched E create multiple Miis for Wii and eats lots of everything. At one point she asked for a cutie (or what we would call a clementine) and said "I am a cutie so I should eat a cutie." The hubs even made chocolate cookies during Monsters vs Aliens, which E took one bite of then stopped eating. A few minutes later I noticed the cookies were burnt at the bottom. I asked E if she liked them and she said no very quietly as if she didn't want to hurt hubs feelings. That's ok, he felt so bad he gave her burnt cookies that he gave her 3 donuts instead. She was in a very happy place!



We captured some of the fun on our Mac photo booth,



you can see that Minne and her really hit it off too!



What a fun night, but I think we're ok with not having kiddos of our own for a little while. For now, we just want to be the fun grownups.