Memorial Weekend

Shaun and I had a great weekend. We both had to work on Saturday but we had Sunday and Monday off. On Sunday we drove over to Downers Grove and I stopped at Memories and Beyond to scope out what they had. I picked up a few baseball items that will be great with all the Cubs pictures I have. After that we drove around Oak Park to check out some of the Frank Lloyd Wright houses. Man, those are some cool houses! We are going to try to get back and do the tour. We got back into the city and did our grocery shopping for the next day and went home to relax for the rest of the night and watch National Treasure 2. Sunday we woke up and went to Home Depot to pick up a stand and gas for our new grill. It's not Memorial Day if you don't grill out!! :D We came back to the house and we did some cleaning and put the air conditioners in and then chilled out until dinner. We had picked up some steaks and I was so excited to try them out on the new grill. They were SUPER yummy and I made cheesy scalloped potatoes to go with it. Dinner was great! The day was great other than it went from 85 degrees down to about 49 degrees in a mater of minutes, literally!! Gotta love the Midwest. Here are a few pics that we took over the weekend. Enjoy!

So I went out last night...

and I went to Crobar for my first time. This is a club here in Chicago that is pretty well known with celebrities visiting and such. I went with Sesil for the Thunder from down under show. Wow those were some good looking boys!! After the show they opened the club up for everyone. I danced my ass of and had the best time with Sesil and her friends. My legs are killing me from all the dancing and my wallet hurts from the $15 cosmos and for the fact that I threw my license away (yeah, that is a story that makes me feel like a dip shit!). The night was great since it started of being pulled over and going to the police station to get Sesil's drivers license back. I can't wait to go there again!! Here are a couple photos :)

My new Camera

We received our stimulus check on Monday. YAY! We had talked about several things to do with it. Use it for our trip to Philly in August or Pay off medical bills. After my Mom visited Mothers Day weekend and I had played with her camera I decided that is what I wanted to do with the money. We decided on a Nikon D60. I have played a little bit and I LOVE it!! It takes beautiful photos. I am looking at getting a book for it so I can learn to shoot in manual. Look for lots of pictures on here now :)

10 things I love about........

10 things I love about living in Chicago

1. Thousands of restaurants to eat at
2. Wrigley Field! I love watching games there
3. Public transportation. Nothing better than having a few to many drinks and not having to drive
4. It is on Lake Michigan and has beautiful beaches
5. The chance to make really great money
6. I LOVE my job working at Windy City Scrapbooking
7. Opportunity for friends and family to visit
8. I can never say I am bored
9. The museums we can and will visit
10. Broadway plays at my doorstep

All in all this is a great place to live and I am so happy we are here.

If I could

Today on Scrapperie Colleen gave us the prompt "I want to take off 3 months to..."

I had to really think about this and I really like what I came up with. If I could I would take off June, July and August. What I would do in those months is go to every single Cubs game in those 3 months. Either home or away games. Seriously, I think that it would just be so much fun to be "roadies" with the Cubs! Maybe we could even work it to where the team knew and we would be their special guests at some of the games. I would also love seeing all the other Fields in the League. I know that they would not be anything like Wrigley but I would enjoy seeing them anyways. That is what I would do with 3 months off

What an amazing weekend!

I will start by saying that I wish you all had a wonderful Mothers Day. I know that we did! We had our Moms here for a fun filled BUSY weekend. We spoiled them a bit and I think they had a great time!



Saturday we headed downtown and went to Buca's for lunch. There spagetti is SO good and we all loved the little tour that they give you through the kitchen before they seat you. Definatly unique! After lunch we went and saw a few sights on our way to the surprise destination. We were able to get a few great shots along the way.

Our surprise destination was WICKED!!! They had NO idea that it was coming and boy were they surprised! We went right in and took in the amazing beauty of the Oriental Theatre. That place is like a palace. Our seats were in the balcony so it was a different view than when Shaun and I went in January. It was still a great view and one hell of a show! The talent of these actors is unbelievable. I look forward to seeing it again one day!

After Wicked we headed to Millenium Park so my Mom could see Cloudgate (aka. the bean) No matter how many times I see this sculptor it still gets me every time!! We took several photos there and then walked over by the Face fountains. Both Mom's thought that those were pretty cool. After all that we went home, made a trip to IKEA and then hada yummy dinner at the Cheesecake Factory. Day 1 is a success!!

Sunday we had tickets for the Cubs game. We did not know if we would be able to make it because the weather was nasty in the morning. Winds like crazy and it was raining pretty hard. We called the box office and they said the game was still on so we all bundled up, I grabbed 4 blankets and we headed to Wrigley Field. It was Mothers Day so the women all got pink Cubs hats. We found our seats and got ready for the game. It ended up being a great game and the Cubs won 6-4. YAY!! We then headed home and had a nice relaxing evening here at the house. It was a great weekend and I am so happy that we were able to do this for them. Hopefully they will be able to come again sometime this summer and we can show them some more sights.

Mom's are coming to Chi-Town tomorrow!!!

Tomorrow is the big day and our Mom's will be arriving for a fun filled weekend. We are going to a Cubs game and then we have a BIG surprise for them on Saturday. It will be nice to spoil them for a bit. They have both had some rough things going on so I think the time away will be good for them! I will post pics throughout the weekend :)

Ouch! My mouth!!

This past Monday I went to the Oral Surgeon and had 5, YES 5 teeth pulled!! Monday it was not to bad because I was all doped up with the anesthesia and being all numb. Yesterday (Tues) again not to bad and I only had to take a couple of pain pills. Today (Wed) it is not feeling so good :( I have taken more pain pills today than Mon and Tues combined. Hopefully it will start to get better tomorrow and I wont get a dry socket or something shitty like that. Thankfully I am able to eat a little bit better now. Monday was kind of rough eating only pudding, applesauce and a tiny bit of lunch meat. I hope to be all better this weekend!

Blue Man Group

So, For my Birthday Shaun got me tickets for the Blue Man group. Our tickets were for April 27th. If you have not seen this show you HAVE to see it! It was absolutely unbelievable! The whole show was just off the hook. The drums, the paint, the audience participation, everything. I think my favorite part was at the end when there are probably thousands of yards of paper that makes it's way through the audience. Here are a few pics from the day.

Great time in Traverse City!!

We had a great time while we were home. We went to Northern Lights and I had entirely WAY to much to drink! Saturday morning I had the worst hangover that I have EVER had! I was in super rough shape.

Going to Andy and Sassy's preception was rough but I did have a good time. It was nice to see everyone. Things got better through the day and Shaun and I had a great time with Skyy. We took her for ice cream at Bardons and then we had dinner at LaSenorita. YUM! We went back to the hotel and crashed and then Sunday morning said our goodbyes and hit the road. Glad to be back in Chicago, as much as I love going home to TC it feels good to come home to Chicago.

Here I come Traverse City!

Tomorrow Shaun and I are headed home to Traverse City for the weekend. I am so excited because we have not been home since Valentines Day. That is almost 3 months and that is just way to long for me. We are hoping to leave about noon if Shaun can get out of work then. We are picking up Micah on the way and he is along for the ride. Tomorrow night we are going to Northern Lights to watch my Uncle Brooks' Band Peril play. I am really excited about this because I have not seen him play in this band yet because they are never in town on the same weekends that I am there. Saturday we are going to my cousin Andy's "Pre-Ception" He and Sassy are getting married on a cruise later in the month and are having an early party. I am looking forward to seeing lots of family. Who knows what else we will have going on but I know that I am really looking forward to this trip!!!

Last year at this time

Last year at this time, I was still recovering from my emergency stomach surgery. That was HORRIBLE and I am still so thankful that my Mom came and stayed with us for a few days and helped out. I have the best Mom ever! That was not a fun way to spend my birthday!

Last year at this time, we had been in Chicago for not quite a year at that point and I was still missing home like crazy! That would soon all change when Shaun got his well deserved raise. Life started to get better at that point :) Since then we have had so many wonderful opportunities and we now really enjoy living here. It is hard to believe that on May 21st it will be 2 years that we moved here. It was definitely the best thing we've ever done for ourselves! I look forward to what the next year brings!