Easter 2011

We hosted Easter at our house again and had quite the turnout.

Tommy & Grace woke up to presents from the Easter Bunny and Tommy wasted no time playing with his new Ernie doll (he even took him for a spin on the car).

Tommy's Elmo Basket

Grace's Basket

Tommy and his new friend

Taking Ernie for a spin

We had a lot of yummy food and a few leftovers that we sent home with everyone. We did learn that Tommy is a big fan of ham. :) Tommy must have been worn out from the morning spent with Ernie, because he took a 3 hour nap and had to eat dinner after everyone else was finished.

Tommy with bed head eating cheesecake with Kylee's bib on

Grace wanted some too :)

Tom in the kitchen (I had to document it - ha)

Kylee swinging

Everyone left by 5:00 and then the 4 of us and my dad (who is watching Grace this week - so we can save the daycare costs) sat around relaxing and watching TV the rest of the night - I definitely needed to relax since I went back to work the next day.

Tommy wearing daddy's shoes

The boys relaxing

Week in Pittsburgh

On Monday afternoon (after tax season was officially over) - the whole family headed to the airport and boarded a plane to Pittsburgh. I'll tell you one thing, it's pretty difficult going through security with 2 kids (okay - it was pretty difficult boarding the plane too). The crappy thing about the plane ride was that they don't left 2 infants sit together so they had to split us up. On the bright side, both kids were good (Grace slept the whole time and Tommy watched The Hangover with daddy).

On Tuesday, we went to visit our friends Chris, Megan, Arden and Miles in Murrysville. Tommy had a lot of fun playing with Arden and Grace just enjoyed watching the other 3 kids playing.

Megan, Arden, Miles, me, Grace & Tommy

Chris, Miles, Tommy & Tom

Arden & Tommy

Wednesday - Tom and I drove around the area and then headed down to The Meadows to do a little gambling. We didn't do so hot - but oh well. That night, we ordered pizza from Tom's 2 favorite places (Jioios & Hotel Loyal). Aunt Eileen  came over to visit and Tommy loved playing with her.

Grace & Aunt Eileen

Sleepy Grace

Grammy & Tommy

Thursday we went to Primanti's for lunch and then the girls went shopping (yea - for no sales tax) and then Tom's Gram, Aunt Mary and Uncle Butch came over for a visit.

Grammy Bunny & Tommy Bunny

Pap-Pap & Grace

Daddy & his mini-me

Friday afternoon, we all headed down to the Pittsburgh area and went to Tom's Aunt Cheri's house for pizza and an egg hunt for Tommy. Since it rained most of the week - we had to do the egg hunt in the house. Tommy got quite a few eggs (with help from all the other kids - since he was more interested in the bouncy ball). After we left there, we stopped by to see Tom's Pap-Pap for a while and then everyone except Tom and I went home.

Grace & her egg

The loot

We went over to visit Anthony & Sharon for an adult only night. We stopped to eat at this cute little Italian restaurant and then went over to the stadium only to find out the Pirate game was rained out - so instead we went over to Rivers Casino for a little more gambling. It was a good thing too, because we (Tom) hit the $1 Wheel for $500 - woo-hoo!

The ride back to Dallas went just as well as the ride up. Grace slept most of the time and Tommy even took an hour nap for me. :)

Tommy on the plane

Kenny Chesney Concert

Last Saturday, my mom and I headed to the stadium for the Kenny Chesney, Zac Brown Band & Billy Currington concert.

We were invited to a suite by my boss. We had a lot of fun eating, drinking and talking to my co-workers.

The concert was great and all the acts were great live. I do wish that they had the big screen on for the whole concert (they had it on for the encore with Kenny and Zac), but that's okay. :)

Me with my mom

Tommy got to hang out with his daddy and Uncle Ricky

He was a little intrigued by Uncle Ricky's beard

Spring Fling 2011

On Saturday, my dad was able to go with me (Thank Goodness) and the kids to a park in Frisco for Tommy's Spring Fling (hosted by his daycare).

Tommy had a LOT of fun running around (and boy did he run) and even got in a bounce house for a second - and then got scared of the other kids running around and got right back out - haha. He did play some of the little games - football toss, Tic-Tac-Toe toss and went down the slide with my dad.

We had so much fun and glad that the weather was so nice!

Tommy & Grandpa playing in the dirt

 Grace was enjoying the outdoors - ha!

The boys taking a break

I tried getting a picture of the baseball we had painted on his face.

Grandpa went down the big slide with Tommy.

Tommy & Charlie's Playdate

Last Saturday, the four of us headed over to Chris and Chuck's house for dinner and to have the kids play together (Tommy and Charlie - not Grace - haha).

They had a "make your own pizza" night and we brought Tom's famous Oreo Ice Cream pie. Everything was so yummy!

The kids had a lot of fun playing with each other - which pretty much consisted of them chasing each other from one side of the house to the other.

Running around

 Tommy waiting patiently waiting for Chris to open a toy

 Tommy with his "fire hat" on

 The boys and their toys