Our week Away or My Very Long Post

Last week I spent the week house sitting for my sister and it was a GREAT get away!

(Not having to put up with my RUDE neighbor was heaven!)

by the way, this afternoon she came home and turned her music on FULL blast, I sent her a
text message after about 20 minutes AND it waking up my sleeping baby asking if she could PLEASE turn her music down a bit because my baby is trying to take a nap her response
and I am not joking "I am tryn to pck. Leave me alone." Now I realize that she is moving out
in just a few days, but my floor does not need to thump, my windows do not need to shake, and my sleeping baby does NOT need to be woken up! PERIOD! I don't think she expected K to go upstairs and knock on her door... she basically told him to take a flying leap and slammed the door in his face. Next time - and I am SURE there will be a next time in the 4 more days she is here, I will just call the police. Won't it be so nice when you all don't have to read my posts about my RUDE neighbor!!! What will I ever talk about!?!?

OK BACK to my WONDERFUL week!
I totally enjoyed my sisters big roomy child proof, toy room, art room, more than one bathroom house. Oh and central air, an ice maker and a jumpy jump in the basement. And her dogs are pretty cute too.
The best part for me was she asked me to put together a scrap book for her of the 12 years
she and my brother-in-law have been together. A gift for their 10 year anniversary.
Every night after I put the girls to bed I would sit at the table and work away on her pages.
I can't believe that I have not scraped in over a year - why did I stop? This is so therapeutic for me! (I think this is the big reason I wanted to get my craft area together!)

So here are the pages I did for her...

1. Dating 2. Rehearsal Dinner 3. Wedding 4.-6. Honeymoon in Hawaii 7. Camping Vacation
8-9. Buying and building a new house

1-2. The Dogs
3. 5th anniversary to Hawaii
4. Lyn Graduating from Nursing school
5-6. Cute Pictures of the two of them
7-8. ELLA!
9. First vacation together since Ella

1. Christmas 2. St. Thomas. 3. the album. 4. OWEN!


During this week, I also discovered that K's favorite past time
(besides playing Uke)
would have a special appearance at the Woodfield Mall.
And like any good wife, I packed up the kids headed over
to the mall, stood in line for a couple of hours to get pictures
and autographs of the UFC fighters that will be here in
October.
We didn't actually make it to have his picture taken with them
but did get some close up
shots and several autographed posters.
Standing in line we worked up an appetite so we headed over to Red Robin with Uncle* Rich
check out the onion rings!

1. At Red Robbin, Rich and Miss M 2. Me and K 3. by the flowers outside the mall
4. Still Standing in line 5. Anderson Silva the UFC world middle weight champion
6. Diego Sanchez 7. Patrick Cote middle weight contender 8. Diego and Patrick
9. Anderson Silva

And this little restaurant - this might be the reason I move to Downers Grove!
OK not really - but it is has yummy food and fun entertainment
for the kids.
My friends Carrie and Lindsay came out to Hinsdale to spend
the day with us - we had to stop for lunch at All Aboard Diner.
And if you want to go there - let me know we'll do lunch!

1. Miss M, Alex and Sam playing at the train table 2. Alex and Miss M on the train ride 3.waiting for our food 4. Miss A's BFF Katelyn 5. Playing in the rain 6. Riding the train
7. Love my juice box 8. A train ring 9. train whistle

I think it was a great week for us all!

and by the way - I still am working on my to do list, but I have hit a bump, I am not sure how to proceed with things next. I cleaned out my scrap desk, but now I need to find room for it all to fit on a smaller desk, OK table with no drawers to hide anything or to store my 12x12 paper in. Maybe I will just go hide away in my STILL clean kitchen or I could just sit in front of my CLEAN computer desk and blog away even if I am on a "time out" what to do what to do...

*Rich is not an actual uncle but he is one of our good friends and in Hawaii everyone is an
Aunty or Uncle - we like to carry on that custom here