Author: Bo

Moms birthday was today, sadly for her, it’s like a kid who’s birthday is on Christmas because Mothers Day and her Birthday always get celebrated together in 1 day since they’re so close together. We had the whole family over last night to celebrate both occasions and what did we do? Rock band of course….

Dad wasn’t really that into rock band… mom picked it right up though!
she sang! it may not have been on key or in the right time but she sure sang!
As did my sister. I feel bad for my dad and my brother in law :) Good thing bo LOVES my singing hahahahaha
Dad & Joe having NOTHING to do with it…
And where was Chloe for all the rockband fun? Guitar? Drums? Singing? NOPE… she said hi to me when she got here, found bowser and that was the last we saw of her ALL night.
I think Bowser gets enough activity in 1 night with Chloe for an entire quarter of the year. She runs around dragging the curly ribbon screaming and giggling as bowser chases her around the house.
Up and down the stairs
over and over and over again. Until we introduced her to the laser light
It wasn’t all fun and games for everyone else, we had birthday cake & ice cream..
and mom got presents too!
Happy Birthday and Mothers Day Mom! We love you!

Bo’s aunt Lori got married on 5/9/09 at “The Stump” bar in Arlington. It only took us 2 hours to drive up there and just over 1 to get home. We had a great time visiting with Bo’s family and witnessing the wedding, here are pictures from the evening!

The 2 groomsmen & maid of honor on their way up the aisle.
Wedding party waiting for the bride
Father of the bride walking her up the aisle
Starting off with prayer
Lighting the unity candle
Reading the vows they wrote
“You may kiss the bride”
being pronounced husband and wife
Headed back out for their first dancefirst dance
dance with dad cutting the cake that Bo’s mom decorated on her own!

nobody got cake in the face/nose, they were very nice
the bride and her mom mom & her girls
bo and his mom
shirley (the mother by law), her parents and aunt lori
I took a picture of us in the mirror… so cute are we
bo enthusiastically dancing with his mom
grandpa tommy and grandma pearl

Rock Band is becoming a regular occurrence at our house. We had our friends Blake and Laura over a few weeks ago to rock out. Actually, Laura was there to scrapbook but we didn’t get too much done of course.

The hosts: Me, Bo & our BowserNO WAY!!!! I missed THAT many!?!?!?!
Bo gets pretty passionate about his RockBand….
The band (minus Blake)
so cute is Laura
The original KoBears
Again…. passion… (notice the red face and intense look)
“You want me to sing WHAT!?!?!?”
Blake doesn’t look too sure about what he is singing.
Now I don’t look too sure about what I’m playing.
Oops… missed 1 – 2 – 3 – 47 – 48 – 49….
Need I say it again? Passion.. Intensity….

We had a pretty awesome Easter this year. Yesterday we got to spend time with Bo’s family, today we went to an awesome church service and heard a great message then got to spend time with my family this afternoon. I didn’t take pictures at church (though i did SERIOUSLY consider it because I would love to have the visual memory, yes I am a dork but at least I came to the conclusion that it would be distracting and inappropriate and didn’t do it) but I did get pictures of the rest of the day.

Chloe painting, she was VERY focused and refused to even acknowledge there was life going on outside of her coloring page. (notice she is painting with her left hand)

Chloe busting into her easter basket

Then Chloe “yard saled” the basket which apparently means tipping it over and dumping everything out onto the floor to go through and see what she got.

Dad decided to take over her masterpiece and finish it while she was going candy crazy in her easter basket.

Mom & Dad

This is Trina & Joe’s dog “Precious.” She’s about 7 1/2 years old and weighs MAYBE 4 lbs… she’s hysterical, she’s about the size of a football and often wears clothes.

Uncle Bo got tired.

All the family… Chloe was very excited about the flash for the camera since we had been waiting so long for the picture to go since I set the time to 10 so I had time to run into the picture. We cracked a few jokes, goosed each other and had some fun waiting for the flash!

This is Bos & my 2nd Easter together. We missed Easter in 2007 because I was out of the country. But we picked up our tradition right where we left off of dying easter eggs. We don’t have kids but we like to have fun so we do it ourselves anyway!

preparing the stuff

lining up the cups in rainbow order. guess who did that? Nope! It was me not Bo!

Us dying, eggs that is.

I was proud of myself for a couple of the ones I made. Bo tried to say they were “OUR” eggs… Uh.. NO…. I specifically let that egg sit in the purple dye for 30 min to make it pretty, it was my creation! HE made the cool 2 colored ones, I didn’t have the patience for that sort of creativity.

Bo’s cousin told me a story today about telling her young son what eggs were. I said “Chicken POOP!” and she said “yeah, pretty much, he’ll never eat eggs again.” hahaha.

At least they LOOK pretty all rainbow colored!

See… so proud!

Bows was having nothing to do with it, she was guarding the stairs with her life! She OWNS that staircase!

Awwww… so cute.

After we were done dying eggs at our house, we picked up Bo’s friend Blake for the day… He’s not cranky, he’s just not a fan of the camera, probably even LESS of a fan that I’m posting his picture on the internet for the whole world to see. But it’s ok Blake, I think you are the only one that even reads our blog anyway! :)

We picked up Blake and headed over to Bo’s grandma & grandpa’s for Easter with his family. Here’s grandma & grandpa and some of the rest of the family to follow.

Mom & niece Violet

Uncle Bo & Violet trying to give the “deuce” sign… not so good Uncle Bo.

Cousins Charitie & Jessica cookin it up in the kitchen!

Uncle Bo & Violet again

Auntie Kari & Violet

Violet with auntie Kari’s glasses… she was grabbing for them on my face so I decided to share.

All the kids at the “kids table” …. It’s all fun and games UNTIL…. someone throws up.

Aunt Lori & her fiancee Greg with Violet

Bo & mom

Bobby, Sarah & who? Oh yes, violet again… :)

Cousin Brandon & his shirt.

We had fun visiting and eating with the family then headed home. Here I am sitting on my computer posting pictures for all to see and the boys are…. well, you can see below.

We celebrated Good Friday watching “The Passion of the Christ” with some co-workers of Bo’s which was a lot of sad fun and tomorrow we’ll of course be at church! I can’t wait to hear the Easter message this year, our pastor is usually pretty creative with it. After church we’ll head to my sisters house to celebrate Easter again with my family! We hope your Easter is as blessed as ours has been! Family, food, fellowship, fun and of course the only reason for it all, Jesus!

Mom & dad and Bo and I took Chloe to the park/lake to play and feed the ducks. We had fun as you can tell by the pictures below.

Sporting her super cute shades.

Her even cooler flip up shades.

Put the toys down… it’s time to get serious feeding ducks.

Nana & Poppi

Uncle Bo & Chloe

She threw in a whole bag of dressing and about half a loaf of bread then wanted even more!

Watching the kids play

The lake

Then we headed to the park to play on the toys

Poppi pushing her higher and higher on the swings

Uncle Bo chasing her EVERYWHERE to tire her out

Uncle Bo & Chloe were overtaking the toys… kids were getting scared of the craziness and jumping from the sides!! Poppi to the rescue!

Girls just want to have fun

Making sure it’s all safe for Chloe to play on…….. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight

Checking the slide for safety too nana?? mmmmm hmmmm

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!

I have no comment. I am speechless. Feel free to post your own comment of this picture at the link below.

Yet again… speechless. My family amazes me often.

She actually did it the right way… right age, right size, sitting the right way…

shrontosaurus??

Bo trying to see if he could fly from the swing. Yes he DID hurt himself attempting this stunt.

Uncle Bo & Auntie Kari

More swingin

It’s all fun and games UNTIL………

SOMEONE PEES ON THE SLIDE. time to go home!!

Here are the pictures of my birthday this past week.

Celebration #1 was with Bo’s & my best friends who we got to go to one of our favorite restaurants with. How cute are they!?

We went to Jasmines Mongolian grill. If you’ve never been to a mongolian grill, go, it’s so good! It’s a buffet line, you select the meat you want then add noodles, tons of veggies and sauces then take it to the grill where they cook it right in front of you.

Cooking on the grill

Bo & I. This would be profile worthy if it was in focus. :(

Anna got me a birthday cake on our way back to our house to watch a comdey dvd (Brad Stein, he’s realy funny). This cake was SOOOOOOOOOO good, i had 1 piece every single day for 6 days. Dark chocolate with chocolate fudge icing. Too bad we didn’t have any milk.

Celebration #2. This is what I found at my desk when I arrived at work Tuesday morning, I was pretty surprised. (Thanks K!) Later that day there were flowers delivered to my desk as well from my wonderful hubby. The picture with those was out of focus.

My co workers all signed a card for me and 1 of them even hand made me a really cool crown. I promised her I’d wear it at least long enough to get a picture with it.

Celebration #3 was a “surprise” dinner with my parents & Chloe at Taco Time. I was VERY surprised even though my dad had called me that morning and sang me all sorts of birthday songs on my voicemail then ended it with “See you tonight!!!” hahaha :) (Mom had called and sung to me on my voicemail as well)

Chloe even colored me a picture that’s hanging on the fridge for my birthday!

Woo Hoo auntie Kari got healthy snacks for her birthday!!

Our birthday portrait at Taco Time, I stick with the story that I’m a tourist wherever I go, I don’t care if it’s a place that I frequent, I’ve got to get my pictures!

I don’t think I’ll ever get the 1-armed self photo down, no matter how many times I do it over and over and over again, I cut off our heads EVERY time. I even point the camera up and STILL cut off our heads somehow, I think my camera has eyes of it’s own.

My new scrapbooking/photography goal is to start getting better candid shots. Seeing them actively laughing is hysterical and so much better than pasted on “photo shoot” smiles.

You’ve seen this move before (if you haven’t scroll down about 2 blogs and you will) … “Where’s Chloe!?!?!?!”

Swingin! Yep, we’re a horrible aunt and uncle, we play in the parking lot but they crashed into all sorts of stuff trying to swing in circles inside the restaurant.

Flingin! Now you see where we get it, Nana plays in the parking lot too! Chloe wanted to go “flingin” so they flung her all the way to the truck. Again, loving the candid photos!

My birthday was a blast, hopefully it was a preview of how this year is going to be because I had a wonderful time and was so blessed by my friends and family! Thanks for all you did guys!

Although you can barely even tell she’s pregnant (in real life, in this picture she actually DOES look pregnant), Bo’s sister Kati is about to have her first child, Aiden. Here are a few pictures from the baby shower last weekend.

She decorated this cake herself! She frosted it on her own, drew the letters and designs, did the ribbons and binkies, it was pretty amazing. I was asking where she bought it because it was so cute but she actually decorated it all on her own! She must have got an A+ in cake decorating class!

Here are the most of the presents and her about to dive into them all.

Most everyone who came

She had this cute idea of having everyone make onesies and/or bibs for baby… There were some really creative and cute designs there but i went plain and basic because I am creativally challenged…

Then I thought uncle bo might want to be included too…

My friend Ellen and I

Once again, Katie (and Dan) decorated the nursery. She painted the letters on the door herself and stamped the walls inside. It’s really cute and they are almost all done!

Dan is going to build a changing table in the nook under the window but they have pretty much everything they need already and it looks really cute.

Dan was at home, I accidentally woke him from napping with his nephew going in to take pictures of the nursery. I just had to get a picture of this little guy with his butt sticking out passed out cold on uncle Dan, it was too cute!

Our family celebrates St Patricks day by way of green flowers, green food, green decorations, cards and fun, yeah, we’re dorks :) Here are some of our pictures of this year!Above is the table mom set that we filled up with corned beef & cabbage with potatoes, carrots & onions as well as green salad and bread. MMMMMMMMMM it was so good, I ate corned beef for 3 days!

Mom & Chloe

Uncle Bo and Chloe playing “Where’s Chloe??” which chloe thinks is hysterical. Bo throws her over his shoulder then looks around in circles exclaiming “Where’s Chloe!?!?!” as if he can’t see her and she thinks it’s hysterical as she yells “I’m HERE unco bo!!” and he spins around to hear her voice but not see her because she’s still over his shoulder…. this goes on for quite a while.

Not worthy of a new profile pic :) At least we’re both wearing green!!

Mom and dad and Chloe sneaking in the flowers….

Chloe passed out pretty early, I think she was asleep by 8pm RIGHT smack in the middle of nana & poppi’s bed.. can you say spoiled!?!?

We took Bowser to the groomer today for our first time (she’s done it before but we’ve never taken her). She’s got such long fur she was starting to get mats even though we do brush her and we’ve never even see the cute collar she wears, we can just hear her jingle wherever she’s at. I was scared to take her in for her first time, what if they shaved her bald? What if they clipped her nails too short? Were they even going to clip her nails? What if they cut her skin? What if they made her bleed? What if the stress was too much for her? What if they were rough with her? I had all sorts of things going through my mind about her going in so while Bo had offered to take her himself, I told him for my own peace of mind, I wanted to go check the place out and meet the groomer. She was a really nice gal and made me feel better about leaving her there. She did great in the car on the way there, she sat on Bo’s lap the entire time and watched out the window. She didn’t cry at all, she was more of a trooper than I was!

We THOUGHT she was getting a Lion Cut … I had asked the groomer to trim around her neck/collar area because her fur was REALLY long and getting mats I had to cut out and go ahead and trim the rest of her down a bit including her tail… But when we took her out of the box at the groomer to check her out she was NAKED!!! hahahaha.. she looks hysterical, we love it! She has legs! And a neck! And a tail! We’ve never seen that before!