Amy's B-Day Weekend...Prime #s Aren't Too Bad...I Guess

This past weekend was my 31st birthday. We had a very nice weekend...beers at Rock Bottom, Greek food, sideways snow, and a holiday party at Frank and Manuela's you can't get much better than that!

Friday night we had dinner and beers at Rock Bottom. Is it bad that I ALWAYS order the same dinner there? For my money you can not beat their Smoked Turkey Enchiladas.

Saturday night we headed into the city into Greek Town for Greek food. This has become my birthday tradition in Chicago...this is our second annual Amy birthday trip to Greek Town. Last year we ate at The Greek Isles and this year it was Rodity's...next year who knows. We will keep on trying them all until we find our favorite. There are about 6-10 Greek restaurants in Greek Town.

Another fun thing about Saturday night is that the snow was coming down in buckets especially in the city with the lake affect snow. As we where eating dinner the snow was coming down at an angle.

Needless to say...getting home took a bit longer than expected.

Sunday...the birthday day...we attended a very nice party at some good friends of ours, Frank and Manuela. It was a very nice party. After the party ended Jim and I stayed for a little extra holiday cheer. The night ended with German liquor called Killepitsch (I have NO idea how to spell it but...Jim sure seemed to like it) and a trip through McDonald's drive through.

Thank you for a GREAT birthday!

Finally, no post is complete without a picture of the kids...

The Most Perfect Tree EVER...

On Saturday we drove to a local tree farm and picked out our Christmas tree. It took us about 5 whole minutes but we managed to find the most perfectly shaped tree I have EVER seen.

Timber....

Now...we take it home...



...and decorate!!

Chewy even decided that he wanted to help well...sort of.

Merry Christmas everyone!

First Snow of the Season

This morning we woke up to 4 inches of snow. Look I can prove it...

The measurment is a bit hard to read on the picture so you are going to have to take my word for it. Here are some more pictures of our winter wonderland.

Chewy is in heaven!!!

Who knows...we might have a white Christmas.

Where's Jimmy...

If you look closely you will be able to see Jim in the crowd. There were so many people there that it took up over 3 min just to get to the starting line. In this picture we have not officially started the run yet.

Recent picture of our boy Chewy...He is 15 months.

Athena and Patty

Stella & Amy

Lights of downtown Naperville

And it begins...

Jim and I thought that we would join the 21st century and start our very own blog...everyone else is doing it so we figured we might as well. Plus, it will give me a reason to take more pictures. On this blog we will attempt to keep you all more informed about our life and times in Chicagoland.

This past weekend was Thanksgiving we had a GREAT day. Thursday morning we woke-up bright and early, 6:30 am, to take part in Naperville's Turkey Trot. This is the second year that we have taken part in the turkey trot and it has become our turkey morning tradition. It is nice to run a 5k in the morning and then stuff our face in the afternoon. Jim and I ran the race in 30:15 which is 3 min slower than last year but...there are so many people you can't run much quicker. Plus, this year, it was snowing. Snow is so much better than rain!

For Thanksgiving dinner we headed over to cousin Joanne's...great food and great company including my 91 year old aunt Kay. This was the second year that we were at Joanne's for thanksgiving and we are hoping that we will be invited back next year.

Friday night we went to downtown Naperville for their Christmas parade and lighting festival. The parade is not much...random people walking down the street, short bus with the folks from the retirement homes, reindeer (yes, real ones) and Santa. The lighting of the downtown area is really cool. All of the lights are on one circuit and they are turned on all at once...see a few pictures below of the lights and our friends that we were with that night.

Look for more posting soon.