This weekend, Phil went out to Nebraska with his college friends for their annual football trip. He left Thursday afternoon and met up with everyone in Chicago. Then they drove out to Lincoln. They had a great time... if only the outcome of the game had been different. On Sunday, they drove to Omaha and were planning to watch a bunch of NFL games. They heard that the Red Hot Chili Peppers were in town and went to the box office to see if they could get tickets. It turned out that they had just opened up sales for the first row floor seats. So they had amazing seats and saw a great show. He should be home mid afternoon today.
On Friday, Will and I decided to order pizza. Alex had a really bad cold so we didn't feel like venturing out. We at picnic style in the family room and watched "The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown." Will has been asking me to make cake pops with him for a long time now (ever since he saw them in the Starbucks pastry case) so I decided this was the weekend to do it. We baked the cake on Friday night and let it cool. On Saturday morning, we mixed the cake crumbs and frosting and formed the bake balls. Will helped pour all the ingredients and did a good job rolling the cake balls. They were a little lumpy but much better than I expected! We had to let the balls set so we decided to go visit Grandma and Grandpa for a bit. Will hasn't seen Grandpa much since his shoulder surgery and he missed him.
On Sunday morning, we decided to go to the mall early before the stores were open. We got there around 9 and Will and Alex played on the breakfast food for quite a while. Alex loved it! He started out on the eggs but quickly moved to the cereal when he saw Will climb it. Then we went to Barnes and Noble to ride the escalators and finished up the trip at the rides. We stopped at Babies R Us on the way home to get rubber teething guards for the crib rails (Alex woke up from his nap one day covered in paint chips he had chewed off)and then played at home for the rest of the day.
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| Gimme those puffs, Grandpa! |
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| Watching Thomas with Grandpa |
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| They love each other |
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| It didn't take him long to climb into the cereal bowl |
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| Hard at work |
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| Seats for the football game |
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| Seats for the Red Hot Chili Peppers... significantly better! |
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