Pool Party for Nancy's 50th

Early this week we went to a friend's house for a pool party to celebrate Nancy's 50th birthday. The weather was great and Nancy loved hanging out with all the family and friends.

Brian and his mommy, the birthday girl

Kevin in the pool with some of his friends :)
Brian swimming with Blake and Chase

Blakers hanging out with Uncle Brian

Aiden... I just love his big smiles

Still laughing... he loves the water

Below are two videos that I couldn't resist posting. The first one is Blake dancing in the pool and the second is Chase swimming with the dog

Jacki and Patrick come to St. Louis

So this past weekend my sister Jacki and her boyfriend Patrick came to visit us. We were really excited and had a lot of fun. On Friday we decided to eat lunch at Fitz's in the Loop and then later that night, we headed to Maryville for an Alumni Event. Jacki and Patrick enjoyed pretending to be Maryville Alumni... Class of 2006.

This picture has nothing to do with the visit, but Aiden looks too cute in it

The four of us at Maryville
Playing air-hockey
Grandma and Grandpa drinking coffee at lunch :)

More fun with Jacki and Patrick

On Saturday afternoon we all went apple picking at Eckert's. It was really hot, but still lots of fun. Later that night we had lots of people over to our house for dinner and apple crisp for dessert. We then played some games and hung out, it was nice to spend some quality time with all our friends.

Jacki, Patrick, Me, and Chase at Eckert's

Uncle Brian and Chase
Picking apples...
Jacki and Patrick eating the apples

Hanging out at our house

Jason and Hillary (and Aiden, who was too fussy to put down)
On Sunday we traveled all over St. Louis. Patrick and Jacki got the royal tour. After church we headed to the Spaghetti Factory for lunch, yummy, then we went to the Arch and Ted Drewes. I think we were all really full and super tired by time the day was over. But it was great to spend time with Jacki and Patrick. Thanks for coming to visit... we loved it.


Brian and I in the arch, don't you just love his funny faces
Sisterly Love
Jacki and Patrick... it was Patrick's first time in the arch
Our famous picture (We now have a Ted Drewes Wall of Fame in our house)

Summer Fun

The weather here has been hot, so we decided to head for the pool. Brian's Aunt and Uncle have a nice in ground pool that we swim at, it is heated and just the perfect size.

Chaseman sitting by the pool

Brian trying to splash everyone with his cannonball
Jill, Chase, and Me
Chase loved the torpedo

Water Fun

The weather here has been great, yesterday Brian, Jill, Chase, and I went for a bike ride on the trail. We rode for about 12 miles and then went and got some snow cones. We came back to our house and got the water guns out, but some how a simple squirt gun fight turned into a hose fight against Chase and Uncle Brian. I am not sure who was wetter???

Chase trying to squirt Uncle Brian

I just love this picture... he loved the hose
Uncle Brian and Chase playing in the water Big smiles...
He is so serious about cleaning that truck
Two very soaked boys

Green Seats

We were able to attend another Cardinals Game earlier this week. We got free tickets four rows behind home plate, we had the best time. Lots of great food, but the Cardinals lost again.

Joel and Jenny came with us
We got to eat inside the Cardinals Club it is really nice

Cardinals Game

We got back from San Diego at about 1:30am on Friday morning, we slept most of the day and then went to the Cardinals Game. We were in a party box with Maryville Alumni. It was fun but it was the worst game I have ever seen. You'll see why in a minute.

The two of us at the game

The girls enjoying the Champions Club
Look at this score... that is so bad

Lindbergh's Spirit Festival

This past weekend, my school had their big carnival fundraiser. Jill and I took Chase-man for a little while. It was very nice, lots of rides, games, and carnival food. (We shared a funnel cake)

I just love the look on his face

Riding on the kiddie rides

Big Smiles

More Snow Days

Well last weekend started off with some nice warm weather, it was about 70. Then it rained Monday which then froze and Tuesday we got 7inches of snow, only to see the sun on Wednesday and have most of it melt. St Louis weather is definitely crazy, but the snow did cause me to have another snow day and Brian was off too so we got to hang out. It was a perfect day for me to get lots of planning and grading done.

The moose says about 6 to 7 inches... good thing we didn't put him away yet

Here is our cul-de-sac from the front door... everything is white
Backyard
Brian attempting to shovel the drive way

(this is starting to look like Ohio)
Me after Brian dumped a shovel full of snow on me
Our neighbor Tim was so excited to finally get to use his snow blower
Later on we went sled riding in our backyard. Our entire cul-de-sac same out to play. The kids were playing and one of the mom's was throwing snow balls at her five year old son. We all had a good time.
Brian and our neighbor, Jason (he works with me at Lindbergh)
Jason's daughter Ella (she didn't want to use a sled)
and Anabelle going down too

Cheers

Last weekend we all hung out at our house and I couldn't resist taking this picture. The guys were eating at the table and Chase got to be one of the men... they taught him how to "cheers" it was too cute.

MY FIRST SNOW DAY

Friday was my first offical snow day as a teacher. I think snow days are more fun now than when I was a kid. The best thing was that we knew on Thursday night at like 9pm and then on Friday by 9am the roads were clear and all was well. What a perfect snow day. Anyway I had to take some pictures because this is the most snow St Louis has seen in quite a long time.

The moose says that we got 5 inches

Our front yard looking out into the cul-de-sac
Our backyard, look at all that snow on our table

Now I had to take this picture, because as you can see the sun is out and the snow is melting already, I guess that is St Louis for you. The tracks in our yard are from all the neighbor kids, who used our hill to go sled riding, they had a blast.