Boys Night...Girls Night...

Tony took Brody for a boys night out at the "K". So, Holly and I decided to have a girls night out too! We went to Pottery Playland and Holly painted Tony a giant coffee mug for his 33rd Birthday next week. We had such a great time. I love watching her "create" things. She is a girl after my own heart. Here are a couple pics of her refining her painting skills and a couple of Tony and Brody at the game:

Brody's 10!

Yesterday was Brody's 10th Birthday. He wanted to go bowling, so I rented a lane in the den at Aaron's Family Fun Center. (It's really neat in there by the way. Great place to go for a private party and it's not that expensive.) So we bowled for a couple of hours, ate pizza and then Brody got to play a few games in the Arcade. He got the new Pokemon Titanium game for his Nintendo DS which he was absolutely ecstatic about and $100 from the grandparents! I think he made out pretty well. Here are a couple of pics:

The Birthday Paddle with Nanny and Papa:

The Birthday Dance:


My Mom and Dad with Holly:

Bowling the Night Away:



The festivities continued this evening as well. Brody and I went and saw the new Harry Potter Movie, "Half Blood Prince". It was really good. We can't wait for the next installment. Then on Saturday, he will be having a sleepover with a couple of buddies. That should be interesting...lol. I'm sure I'll have lots to post after that event.

Did she really just do that?

Ok, so we were just playing around this morning being silly. Brody and I were sticking our fingers in our mouths and pulling them out making a popping sound, you know like the "lollipop, lollipop, oh lolli lollipop..pop" song. Holly was trying and trying, but she just couldn't get it, so she created her own way of doing it...lol...(you might have to turn your sound up cause it's kind of quiet)...

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CHICAGO!!

We're back!! It was a long exhausting weekend, but we had a good time. For the most part the kids were pretty good. We must have literally walked 20 miles this weekend. The only day we didn't walk to our destinations was on Saturday because it was raining.

We were able to pack our long weekend with stuff like the Field Museum, Buckingham Fountain, Museum of Science & Industry, Navy Pier, Sears Tower, Shedd Aquarium, the Lego store, Hard Rock Cafe and so much more! In Chicago 4th of July weekend is what they call the Taste of Chicago. It's basically a giant street fair in Millennium Park with vendors, bands and everything else you can think of (unless you like being swarmed by 2.5 million people I would suggest visiting at another time...lol). We got to see two fireworks shows (and they are spectacular. Nothing like what we see here) and we even caught part of the Mitchell Musso concert in the park (he's a big Disney star off of Hannah Montana). The kids got a kick out of that.

The kids, Tony and I are pooped to say the least and Holly got air sick on the way home poor thing but here's just a few of the pics from this weekend (and there are quite a few here...lol):

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Can anything else possibly break?!?

So over the past weekend, we had three major "appliances" give out. First was the dishwasher. That one sucks just for the simple fact that I hate washing dishes...lol. The second was the air conditioner. It got hotter than blazes in the house Monday. I had someone come out and fix that yesterday. The third is the hot water heater. Tony discovered that it was rusting and when the guy came out to fix the air conditioner he looked at it and said we need to get it replaced ASAP before it explodes and floods the basement. YEA US! So Tony and I went to Nebraska Furniture Mart and bought a new dishwasher tonight. We got a pretty good deal on one. Nothing fancy, but it washes the dishes! Tomorrow he will be heading to Lowe's to purchase a new hot water heater.

I'm about ready to give up on the house. This place is a money pit! Last winter the furnace went out along with the washer and dryer. We need new siding and a new roof. Those won't be happening anytime soon...lol. Oh well. Thanks for letting me gripe! :)

Tony is just cruel....

We went out to dinner Saturday night with the kids just to unwind and catch up with each other. While we were eating our dinner we decided to make a list of things that the kids wanted to do before the summer was over. It consisted of the usual; Worlds of Fun, swimming at the lake, go bowling, try out the new Lee's Summit water park, etc. At the very end Brody added "Chicago!". Tony turned around and with the straightest face told him that we weren't going to be able to go this summer but he promised we would next summer. The look on Brody's poor face was unbearable. I almost broke down and told him. He was so disappointed. So I absolutely can't wait for the reaction next Friday when we head out to the airport and he finds out where we are going. He's going to flip!!

P.S. If you haven't figured it out, it's a complete suprise to the kids, so don't mention it on Saturday when we see everyone!

I couldn't resist...

I ran over to my Mom's this afternoon to bring back some stuff I had borrowed from her. Bad idea. She gave me a coupon to JC Penny's for $10 off a $10 purchase. So I figured I would just run over there real quick and see if I could find anything I couldn't live without...lol. Well I did. And then some. They were having a huge sale (everything 60% off). I wound up getting a bunch of stuff for real cheap, so I guess it was worth it. At least I got some cute new stuff for our trip to Chicago in a couple of weeks!