St. Patrick's Day Parade 2009

St. Patrick's Day Parade

We decided at the last minute to enjoy the nice weather and head over the St. Louis for the St. Patrick's Day parade. Beth, Jason, and Bella joined us and we had a great time.

We went to Keener Plaza, they had all kinds of great free stuff for the kids to do. Face painting, bounce houses, etc. We spent a little too long on this stuff, and unfortunately didn't get very good spots to watch the parade, but we had fun anyway. We definitely want to go back next year and decided that we will send the boys to camp out for parade spots why we take the kiddos around to all of the festivities.

Because we had bad spots, and the kids were whining a bit to see better, you'll notice they spent lots of time on our shoulders. Primarily Bill and Jason's, but Beth and I got in on the action too. Notice all of our fun garb, gotta love the dollar section at Target! I realize after looking at these pictures that the green I choose to wear really wasn't that green. Oh well!

The girls really enjoyed the Irish Dancers. Here is their interpretation...they are such a hoot!

Catching Up

Hello, my name is Becky, and I am a horrible blogger. Yes, I know it has been over a month since my last post, so I'm going to catch you up. I will try to do better.

Here are a couple of the girls playing in the snow.

Here are a couple at the mens SIUE basketball games. We have been to most of the home games this year. The girls love going. This particular Saturday, I was feeling brave and let both of the girls invite a friend to go along. Brittney brought her friend Morgan from our neighborhood, and Brie choose her best friend Sidney. It was fun, but I will say I didn't see much of the game that night.

Next is Superbowl! This was right after Grandpa passed away, so none of us were feeling much like partying. A nice relaxing family evening was just what we needed. The boys watched the game in the basement on the big screen, while us girls wachedthe kids and the commercials upstairs. Bella wasn't very intereseted in the game...she wanted everyone to read her gooks to her. Notice Gigi and Aunt Katie both gave in.

My girlies were acting silly in their 3D glasses before watcing the Alien preview.

Sweet Bella wanted to take some pictures too!

Beth and Brit looking through Auntie's pictures.

Here is a little video of Bella showing off all of her tricks. She is so precious! Notice that she knows where many of her body parts are now, and my girls favorite Extreme Bella!

Here are a couple of pics of the girls at Noel Richey's birthday party which was at Collinsville fun park. Fun! Their favorites were Air Hockey, and of course the bumper cars!

Last, a couple of weekends ago we went out with our good friends Amy and Rick and their two sons Ryan and Alex and Beth, Jason, and Bella. During our 1 hr and 15 minute wait for dinner at Alfonzo's we played at Family Fun Time. It was very crowded, but fun.

Alex was a little young for the festivities, so here he is chilling with Mommy.

Ryan trying out ski ball.

Bella chilling in the Ferrari.

Brittney playing air hockey with her Daddy. She's very serious.

Brie riding the rides.

Ski Ball! The best game, as you get the most tickets. The goal...the girls must win at least 200 tickets so that they can get some annoying noise maker thing, a "diamond" ring, a bouncy ball, an air head and a jolly rancher. I'm pretty sure we hit the jackpot on he machine Brit was on. Must have been broken and spitting out extra tickets. There was quite a line of people waiting for Brittney to leave so they could have her machine!