Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Mommy's day off

For my Birthday Jon gave me a pass for a "day off" of being a Mom.  My Mom offered to go out with me and take me places as her gift for me.  Since I am having surgery on Thursday, we needed to do the day off now, or wait until I was healed so we did it right away.  Today was AMAZING!

I started off the day sleeping in and then reading in bed.  After a bit I got showered and dressed and then I walked over to Jack's with Jon and Jamie for breakfast.  Mom met us on our way home and we started our day of fun.
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Our first stop was Larry's pistol and pawn where we shot up some paper zombies.  Neither of us are very good shots, but we had fun!  We went through at least 300 rounds while we were there.  When our range time was up, we left the shop and headed to our next stop.
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My good friends had given me a gift card to Books-a-million so we stopped there and I picked out 4 books and then we went to the local used book store and picked up a few more.  Going to bookstores is dangerous! We spent a ton of money on books.
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After book shopping, we went out for lunch.  We had a groupon for Fulin's down in Madison so we went and had sushi and sesame chicken.  Neither of us had ever been there before, but the food was fantastic!
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Our next stop was Queen's Nails for Manicures and a polish change for our toes.  We had pedicures 2ish weeks ago so we just got new colors instead of the full sha-bang.  It was fun hanging out and chatting while our nails dried.
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After our nails dried we went to Sub Zero for ice cream with another Groupon.  I got Peanut butter malt with snickers and Mom got orange-pineapple- coconut with almonds.  It is such a fun place to get ice cream!  It was delicious too.
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We finished up at about 4pm, It was time for us to seperate as Mom needed to head to go bowling with Dad and friends so I had some alone stuff planned.  Originally I wanted to do an intro to scuba diving class, but they didn't have a spot open today so I went to a movie instead.  I went and saw "Cinderella" all by myself.  It was ok, but a bit slow.  I was the only one in the theater, so that was cool too.
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 After the movie was over, it was time to pick up Elinor and head to our Karate classes.  Then my last stop after dropping Elinor off was going out for dinner with Mom and Dad.  Originally I wanted to try out the new pizza place "sam and greg's" but when we found out it was about $20 for a 12" pizza we decided to go elsewhere  We ended up at applebees.  They have a new special where you can make your own sampler plate with 5 items for $14 so we each picked out 5 appetizers to try.  It was way too much food, but awesome to try out all the different things!
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I ended the night by typing up this post while watching Netflix with Jon.  It was such an amazing day.  So many fun things to do, and I didn't have to do a single Mom-thing all day.  No diapers, so snacks, no breaking up fights, no chores, it was awesome!!  Definitely the best birthday present ever!!!


I am so greatful for my amazing Husband and how well he takes care of me.

Monday, March 30, 2015

BBQ and Tree climbing.

Tonight we had our friends over for a backyard BBQ.  I met Klaus and Nadja at Karate and we have become good friends.  They are from Germany and are here on an assignment for a few years.  Elinor and Wesley get along great with their boys and they have a little daughter just a bit younger than James.  They are all incredibly sweet!  We had hotdogs and hamburgers and then we played Bocci ball.  It was so much fun!  Elinor and Killian climbed way way high in our tree!

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Saturday, March 28, 2015

legos and birthday dinner.

today i took the kids to toys r us to make a free lego set.  Then this evening, Jon took me out to dinner since last night on my Birthday, he was out camping with Wesley at the Father/Son camp-out.  We had some delicious Indian food.

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Thursday, March 26, 2015

Sci Quest

Mom and Dad bought us a family membership to Sci Quest a while ago, and I promised to take the kids to the museum over spring break, so now that we are back from Kentucky today was the day!  The big kids had a blast running around the museum exploring the exhibits while Jame and I spent most of the time in the baby room where he could safely play.  The Big kids favorite thing was the craft area where they were building flying things and putting them in an air tube to shoot up to the ceiling.  After the museum, we met Daddy for lunch at Sams Club.  It was a great day!
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