Welcome Baby Lydia!

Just a quick post to say CONGRATULATIONS to my high school friend, Amy, and her husband, Nate, on the arrival of their little girl, Lydia! I know you've been waiting for this day for a long time, and I'm so glad it's finally here for you!! I can't wait to meet and hold little Lydia!

Weekend!

Jason and I spent Saturday running errands - dropping my dress off for the wedding to get altered, get measured for his tux, bank, post office, etc.... then we headed to Bourbonnais to visit our neighbors who moved back in September. They have a beautiful house, and it was great to be able to visit with them for the evening!

Claire spent most of the evening with that jump rope in her hand!

Even Allie was excited to see us! ha!

On Sunday, I stopped over at Jason's sisters and had to get a few shots of Caden. Here's a couple of his 6 months pictures and a few I took.

What a cutie!!! I just love this kid!

Happy Birthday, Bubba!

Happy Birthday to our friend, Bill Brang!! We hope you have a great birthday!

See you in June!!

Martina McBride

A big THANK YOU to Big Brothers/Big Sisters and Martina McBride for free tickets to her concert last night!! Aireol and I had a great time at U of I Assembly Hall ... it was Aireol's first real concert. Lady Antebelum started off the night (a small band from Nashville, TN), followed by Jack Ingram (who had some great stories about his two small children - Ava and Eli) and finally Martina McBride! Her stage was awesome!! Right before we left, she let a 13-year old in the audience come onstage and sing a song with her...how sweet is that?! There was a good mix of her old music and a few songs off of new album (Waking up Laughing). Now to a few pictures of the evening:

Kids always have to get Dippin' Dots...I, personally, don't get it!

Team Michaels!

If you've been following my blog or Michaels' family blog to the right...you'll be interested to know that the Michaels quad squad entered the world around 10:30pm on Tuesday, February 19th! They were born at exactly 28 weeks, and it sounds like all babies and mom are doing well. Hopefully Jon will get a chance to update the blog with some pictures, but a great neighbor friend forwarded an email with the names and weights....here they are:

Gavin Christopher (2lbs 13 oz)
Maggie Ray (2lbs 8oz)
Reese Suzanne (2lbs 3oz)
Lauren Kay (1lbs 7oz)

CONGRATULATIONS TEAM MICHAELS!!!

We can't wait to meet these little ones when they come home to Eagle's Landing!

There isn't much to update...things were pretty normal - just day to day stuff last week and this weekend. I had a conference early Saturday morning and then a meeting in Chicago today for work. Nothing major planned for this week either so it could be pretty boring on the blog for a while.

Happy Birthday!

Our family celebrates birthdays three times a year because it is just too hard to get all of us together for everyone's birthdays these days. On Saturday night, we celebrated Michelle's, mine, my dad's, and my neice's birthdays. Dinner was fabulous - thanks Michelle!! Here are a few pictures from the evening: