Baptism

My cousing Theresa and her husband Bill invited us to their second daughter, Mya's baptism on Sunday. It was very nice even though it was so hard to hear the Priest. New church, horrible sound system! It was really ashame that the only notible thing during the ceremony was the Priest could not state Mya's name correctly. He would say Mia or Myra????

Since the sound was so bad, Scott and Annabelle, along with a lot of the adults had a hard time focusing on the ceremony. Here's the two checking out Scott's sketches. After church we went to Sanfrantello's in Tinley Park. It was so good. I wish I had taken photos of the 60+ people, but I was too busy enjoying the family and eating the delicious food! We all had a very nice time. Thanks Theresa and Bill for the invite. Your girls are so precious.

Sketching

Scott has become quite the sketcher these days. I thought I would share these two. He's only 11 and really likes to draw. If you are interested in seeing more Mojo sketches check out his blog at www.mojosspot.blogspot.com or click on the Mojo link to the right on our blog sight www.priespage.blogspot.com

Easter 2009

Easter was nice this year and celebrated at Mana and Papa's house. No snow! Not quite as warm as 60 but close. Since Scott and Annabelle along with their younger cousin Grace are the only "kids" (the rest are adults!) among neices and nephews in the family, Aunt Karen and Aunt Dana organized an egg hunt for them. There were a lot of eggs to be found and Grace had fun finding as many as she could. Thanks Scott and Annabelle for understanding that egg hunting is really for the younger ones! Although Scott and Annabelle seemed to really enjoy the discovery of the gold dollars and candy in the eggs! Thank you!

April?

Somehow, this is what April looks like to me. Oh, yeah I live in the Midwest! We have snow on and off until May!!! UGH!!!!

This is what I woke up to today. This somehow does not look like an Easter Tree to me. Not sure why we have this crazy weather. 70's in February and 30's in April - Can we say GLOBAL WARMING??? but if it is Global Warming then why do we have so many cold days???? Shouldn't they be warm?

Remodeling project no. 158 +/-

Isn't it beautiful? This is our main bath in the house. Even the ceiling has been removed. It's amazing how long you can hold your bladder at night if it involves not having to go down two flights of stairs to go to the bathroom. Seriously though, we are so spoiled having three bathrooms in our house and then we have the nerve to complain when one is out of commission.

Mark has been working on the demo of this bathroom and I have been working on the buying and designing of it. All the supplies are ready to be installed, just as soon as Mark gives our nephew, the plumber the okay to come by to help with a few plumbing issues and the placement of the new tub. Oh, and the walls are reinstalled, plastered, sanded, painted, then tile put in and grouted on the tub wall and the floor, then the install of the toilet, vanity, new light fixtures, mirror, ceiling vent fan, towel bars, shower curtains and last but not least change out the light switch plate covers! Looks like it'll be awhile. Wonder why Mark hates when I start these things? LOL!!!

I'll show you the finished product when it's completed!