birthday weekend

i sailed into my official 30s this weekend, turning 31 on sunday. our friends tina and andy came down from chicago to help celebrate. thanks you two - we had so much fun and many laughs! as tina and i used to say, we made good memories!



future chicago trib/dupage county engagement announcement pic:

easter

here are some photos of the family from our saturday dinner downtown for tim's mom's birthday over easter weekend. we went to crofton on wells, it was a wonderful time!





here are some belated easter pics... caroline w/ "uncle timmy" as she referred to him!
and mitch in his cute little boy outfit, i wish the photo showed his cute patchwork madras pants!

mid-winter visit to chicago

i was in chicago last month and had the fun opportunity to go out with paige, tina and andy. we had grand plans to get a nice dinner somewhere, but when it came down to it, the cozy, neighborhood Brownstone couldn't be beat! it was freezing out and we didn't want to venture too far! as usual we had a great time and accidentally overindulged thanks to the huge plastic mugs the beer came in.... notice how excited we are about the mugs in each photo?!

only one month ago...

i forgot to post these amazing pics of all the snow we got last month in Feb. one blizzard buried us in 17 inches in less than 48 hours! i think it looks so pretty!

brrrrrr - global warming, yeah right!

we got 6 inches of snow in a few hours yesterday, winter has finally arrived!

indy NYE 2007

tim and i celebrated our first nye in our new town. we had a wonderful dinner at famous st elmos steakhouse downtown. we were slightly annoyed that we were ushered out around 11:40PM b/c peyton & ashley manning were coming in for a private party and had the whole place rented out. luckily we snagged the last table in a cool hotel lounge nearby, the conrad, where we rang in the new year with some champagne and live jazz. i think we are officially 30 now... i doubt i would have thought this was a fun time 10 years ago!!!! we also stayed at a hotel downtown so we could party and not have to drive back up to the burbs.

more "before"/"after"

here are "before" move-in and "after" some tlc in our guest room. we are open for visitors here in the town of the world champion football team - the COLTS!!!!


"before"

"after"

another diy project, when i couldn't find square white lampshades trimmed in navy, i bought plain white shades, navy grosgrain ribbon & a glue gun and made it the way i wanted! cheap and custom! (trix, this one's for you)