Dad's Night

Last night was Dad's Night at Conall's school and let me tell you, this little guy was so, so excited..."Declan not coming to my school, Galvan not coming to my school and you not coming to my school, just dad!", he told me yesterday:)  Conall even had dad's "smell good" on!  At Dad's Night they went through their morning routine, the dads had to guess which "All About My Dad" poster their child made (BC guessed right!), had cookies and made some crafts.  I think they both had an awesome time and I really can't get over how handsome my guys are:)

march madness

 Last week after church BC set up his old Nintendo for the boys!  We can't believe it still works!  But the boys have had fun trying to figure out Super Mario Brothers:)  Little do they know this is the only video game they will ever have in our house!

 The Big Ten Tournament was in town last week and BC took Declan down to the final game on Sunday:)  Declan was rooting for Michigan State and they won!

 Monday was St. Patrick's Day and even though it was only 20 degrees out, we went downtown for the parade!  BC met up with us, so we could all be cold and celebrate our Irishness together:)  Galvan kept taking off his mittens so he could pick up treats, both boys came home with a nice swag bag of treats!

winter soccer

 This winter Declan attended a soccer training league at FC Pride Soccer.  It was once a week and they really focused on kicking, passing and drills.  Declan did great and really enjoyed it:)

 Here he is getting some coaching and a high five from former IU coach Jerry!

Of course the little brothers were there to watch and learn too!

LA trip

Last week BC and I headed out west to our old home of Los Angeles!  LA had the most rain it's had in the last 3 years, but that didn't stop us from having a wonderful time.  We got in late Wednesday night and the weather was super on Thursday, we were able to go for a run, ride bikes down to the farmers market for lunch and hang out at the beach:) 

 That evening I met up with the ladies I used to teach with, it's been so long since we've been together and it was awesome to catch up with Theresa, Megan, Susie and Ruthy!

 Later that night we had dinner at C & O's (BC and I had our first date there) with Seamus and Danielle.  BC was so happy to have his favorite dish, Spinacci!

 Friday morning we went to mass at my old school and were able to see some of the students from my last class...they're 8th graders now! It rained pretty much all day, but we didn't mind as we spent the day at Baja Cantina drinking margarita's and eating chips and salsa with Seamus! 

 Later that evening (it was still raining) we attended Lauren and Rob's rehearsal dinner (their wedding was the reason for our trip) at Michael's in Santa Monica. 

 Saturday morning we headed to Redondo Beach to have breakfast with my old room mate, Jessy and her family.  BC met Jessy first (thanks to Bill, who studied abroad with her) and then he introduced us and we lived together for a few years before she got married.  Bill and his wife Kara (and little Hudson) just happened to be visiting LA too, so we were all able to get together...and if you didn't know, Bill is the one who introduced BC and me!  The cute little girl is Jessy's daughter Taylor, her little boy, Keller, did not want in the picture!

 Saturday afternoon was Lauren and Rob's wedding at Shutters on the Beach, it was a very sweet ceremony (inside due to the rain) and beautiful reception. 

Before heading home on Sunday, we went back down to the beach for breakfast and one last walk out on the pier.  The waves were unbelievable!  It was such a great trip and thank you to Ya Ya and Pop Pop for keeping our boys while were gone:)  

Declan's morning at mass

This past Wednesday Declan and his class helped the third grade out in mass!  Declan's role was to help with the intentions, he raised his arm for the response as he said "Let us pray to the Lord"!  He did a great job:)  After mass his class and the third grade class sang a special song for everyone! It was a wonderful morning watching him participate and be part of school mass.

 



catching up

Here's what's been going on the past few weeks...

 Declan celebrated the 100th day of Kindergarten and he made a string of 100 fruit loops to prove it!

 Galvan has just been up to mischief, but is super happy about it!

 Conall had a party in the play room, he got out all of the apps for it!
He even made wheat thin and gold fish sandwiches:)

On the last day of Catholic Schools Week the boys and I joined Declan for lunch!

We all had pretzels from our favorite pretzel shop of course!



ski buddies

BC took the boys skiing this weekend and they're naturals!  They both picked it up easily...BC held onto Conall a few times down, but then Conall told him "let go" and didn't need him the rest of the (except to help him up when he fell)!  They lasted pretty much all day, after some lunch they were back at it!  Declan and Conall had so much fun (as did BC), but fell asleep after 5 minutes in the car:)  Galvan and I stayed home this trip, but we're hoping we can go on the next one!  Way to go BC teaching our boys how to ski!

 Skis!

 Up the tow!

 Pretzel lunch!

Our ski buddies:)