Tuesday, July 8, 2008

CC SABBATICAL!!!

Welcome CC Sabathia!!! The most EXCITING thing to happen to Milwaukee Brewers baseball in 25+ years! CC Sabathia was the 2007 AL Cy Young Player of the Year as a Cleveland Indian, and now he will be wearing the True Blue Brewers Jersey #52. While the Brewers have been playing stellar baseball as of late, CC is the icing on the cake to propel us into the Fall Classic!

We have great tickets for tonight's game, in which CC will be the starting pitcher. We are currently working on posters & a clever shirt for Marcella to wear for tonight's debut. All of Milwaukee is in a frenzy over CC's acquisition, and tonight's game will be a sell-out! Go Brewers!!!!!!!!!

Even Uncle Lukie (Pictured on Right Below), the big Cardinals fan, is jumping on the Brewers band-wagon!!!



Sunday, June 15, 2008

Long Time, No See/Talk/Write/Blog

No excuses for not blogging---just enjoying summer & Mar-Mar...

Mom's last day of the school year was Friday, June 6th... She has been here since the 7th~~we have been having a great time. Mom has totally helped us out, by cleaning our house!!!, and just being an awesome Mom & Grandma.


Here are some pix (by the way, the little blue/yellow dress that Marcella is wearing, was my dress when I was a little girl!!!~~)

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Monday, May 5, 2008

Up North...








On Friday, we ventured up north to Grandma and Papa Lynn's house (3 1/2 hours north of our house). We had a variety of reasons for coming: Uncle Andy is home on vacation, a Bridal Shower, and a fun get-away.



George had to go back on Sunday (to work! boo hoo!), but the girls get to stay and play for a few extra days.



Tonight was beautiful, so we headed down to the water to watch Uncle Andy & Papa Lynn fish. Marcella is most certainly an outdoors, adventurous, rough & tumble type of princess. Here are a few pix from tonight...


Uncle Andy's prize catch...Don't worry, I made sure he threw it back (and he did~~below, Marcella and Andy are watching the fish swim away).

Saturday, April 26, 2008

A little of this & a little of that: FINALLY Time for Blogging while the rest of the household celebrates NFL Draft Day

Marcella donning her Ant Mask we made at our Tuesday morning playgroup...










Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.............



























Baba & Mar feeding the squirrels...




As a wise man recently told us "You have to take care of your Diad in order to have a happy & healthy Triad"....So, we heeded the advice and headed to Chicago for a "Date Night" ...we went for dinner at a Spanish Tapas Restaurant ...we walked around the city & did some shopping....we stayed downtown @ the Palmer House Hilton via Priceline....we had an AWESOME time...




















On our "date night" we watched the movie "Forgetting Sarah Marshall"~~It was the funniest movie we've seen in a Looooong time. Quite possibly Ever. I was laughing so hard I couldn't wipe up all my tears fast enough, so I started using George's sleeve. Poor guy. By the end of the movie, his shirt was drenched with my laughter tears. At right, a "Sarah Marshall" taxi cab whizzes by...









A recent Brewers game...Marcella has been an angel at every game we have gone to this year. She loves yelling CHARGE when they do that little ditty over the loudspeakers.






We took our nephew Josh & niece Jessica to a baseball game this past week. Prior to the game, both were undecided about their opinion on this stellar team----after a spectacular game, an exhilarating finish, and awesome seats, they are now BONAFIDE BREWERS FANS!!!!!!!





~~NFL Draft Day 2008~~

Best Buddies

My friend Ayako watched Marcella this week, while I had a Literacy Event to attend. Marcella and Makoto had a blast, playing piano & hangin' out...

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Scrapbookin'

George's sister Lubita is a scrapbooking afficionado. For Christmas 2006, she gave each of George's siblings (6 total including G), and George's mom, an 8x8 scrapbook entitled the "Circle of Families" Album. The only catch was that each scrapbook was blank. The idea is that each family creates a few pages for the scrapbook, detailing what is happening in their lives currently. After you've finished, you pass the book along to the next family, and they insert their own pages in your book, and then that family passes the scrapbook on to the next family, and so on.... When your book comes back to you, it will be filled up with the memoires of our entire family. What an awesome gift!!!


The only 'problem' is, as I noted in my first sentence, this was a Christmas present from 2006. When I last checked, it was April 2008. So, I am a bit behind the times. I have discovered that scrapbooking is next to impossible with a toddler tooling around. So, I asked Lubita to come and help me out with my pages, and to bring "babysitters" (AKA, Marcella's cousins).


Pictured below are Trevor and Nate, the coolest kats around, babysitting Marcella.