Dec 19, 2007

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...



Dec 12, 2007

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!

Dec 5, 2007

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.