Vacay

We spent the past week at a house in New Buffalo, MI with Ross, Erin and Sofie (their dog). Brett and Sandi were able to join us for the first weekend. We could not have asked for better weather - sunny and warm all week! We spent most days relaxing by the pool and the nights on the back porch while the guys grilled up some awesome dinners. The guys got to gamble and play golf. Sofie got to run like mad at the dog park. Erin and I got to do some outlet shopping in Michigan City. And we all fell in love with the ice cream at Oink's!

Legendary burger joint in New Buffalo

Lots of fried foods! Matt got the Sloppy Joe cheese fries - YUM!

We were regulars at Oink's!

Yellow cake batter ice cream - SO GOOD!

The Stray Dog - we ate lunch on the rooftop here twice

Typical afternoon - reading by the pool

Grilling out on the back porch

Sofie loves corn on the cob!

My first purchase for the babies - couldn't pass these up at the Carter outlet!

It's a girl... and a girl!!!

Come October, Matt is going to be outnumbered! We are expecting twin girls October 20th! We found out this week that both babies are healthy and doing great! I actually was really surprised that they were both girls - I thought for sure one of them was a boy. Matt kept saying we were having two boys (mainly just to rile me), so I kind of half expected that to be the outcome, too.

Baby A - looks like she is blowing bubbles!

Baby B - she's waving "hi"

We had an almost 2 hour ultrasound on Monday, where the u/s tech went through and checked out all the arms, legs, hearts, etc. Baby A was being stubborn and would not move into the right position for some of the checks (I think she gets the stubbornness from her dad - ha!). Baby B was very chill and moved right into position. We have TONS of pictures from the u/s. Matt was getting pretty good at calling out what we were looking at on the screen.

We are both so excited and can't wait to meet the little ones!

Birthday at the races

We celebrated Tony's 40th b-day at Arlington Race Track over Memorial Day. Matt and I didn't have much luck with the horses, but the weather was beautiful. We had the whole Miller Lite Party deck to ourselves. It was a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon!

The past few weeks

Erin and I spent Mother's Day at home in Rochester this year. We shopped with my mom for supplies for my parents' 40th wedding anniversary party that's coming up in June. We got a lot accomplished! Check out these pics of my mom and dad on their wedding day. The other couple (Barb and Jim) got married around the same time 40 years ago, so they are having one big party together to celebrate!

My parents are in the bottom left and top right pics

This past weekend, NATO was in town. Fun times. I stayed away from the craziness as much as possible. I did hear lots of helicopters and sirens. And there were cops and security everywhere!

We also attended the wedding of a friend of ours from work, Dan. He was over in the Netherlands working at the same time as me (and also one year when Matt worked over there). It was a beautiful day (even though it was a little hotter than you would expect for May).

Hoyee and Dan

The TW Chicago crew

A few pics

Our visit to Medieval Times for Brett's birthday was a lot of fun. I had no idea what to expect!

Surprise Brett!

The horses and knights

Brett and Sandi

Our knight (yellow and red) lost in the first round - boo!

Sporting our knights colors!

Afterwards, we went to Gameworks and Erin raked in a lot of tickets!

Happy 30th Birthday to Brett!

We celebrated with a surprise party on Saturday at Medieval Times! And with some ice cream cake (yum!) at Sandi's house on Sunday! Lots of fun! I will download the pics and add them soon! : )

Easter Baptism

I was asked to be a godmother for Kayla Marie, Hany and Grant's adorable little girl. The baptism was in Peoria, so my parents drove up from Rochester to meet us and we all stayed at the Par-A-Dice casino/hotel Saturday night.

We celebrated Easter with dinner out Saturday night and lots of gambling! Matt spent the majority of his hours in Peoria in the casino and a certain brother-in-law of mine may have closed down the casino on Saturday night (or early Sunday morning).

On Sunday, the girls headed to the baptism. Kayla was a champ and did very well during the baptism. She even turned on the charm and gave the church a big smile!