Early Valentine’s Day

 

We elected to celebrate Valentine’s day early this year. Both boys have practice on Valentines Day (because remember men plan that stuff) and because I have so very few years left where the boys will humor me and sit down with us to celebrate, I just pushed the festivities up a day.

 

Noah had been sick all weekend. He started a fever on Saturday. I decided to keep him home from school as he still wasn’t able to eat and standing wasn’t high on his totem pole of things to do either. As I type this there isn’t much improvement so I have a feeling Mike will be home with him tomorrow.

 

I spent the whole day cooking. I made chocolate covered strawberries (stick with the melt-aways not chocolate chips), cheeseburger soup, and cupcakes. I also put together 31 bags of chocolate covered popcorn for my students which I bagged and affixed labels to.

 

I set up the table…..

 

I made the kids clink glasses……

 

We ate.

And it was over!

 

Hope you have a Happy Valentine’s Day!

LB

Twins Caravan

 

The Twins caravan breezed through Owatonna and mom and I decided to take the kids up to see the players. Even though we arrived over an hour before the event started, good ole’ Budach luck struck again and we ended up one of the last people in line. Generally we pick the wrong place to camp out and the line started at the complete opposite end of where we were in the restaurant. **Sigh**

 

 

I ended up sending mom home and Mike joined us for the duration. Noah wasn’t super thrilled and would have turned around at any time and went home (love this child) but Connor would have been disappointed had we not stayed.  So, after not being able to get served because so many people had reservations (except no one was sitting and eating) we plunked down at a random dirty table and asked some kind waiter if we could order supper. Luckily he was fine with that and we ordered food while the kids stood in an unmoving line. My headache was grateful.

 

Can you believe how young Noah looks here? You know why……because Connor is huge. He is ONE pant size behind Noah.

 

 

 

 

 

Butera (back-up catcher that played most of last year), Valencia, and Bert Blyleven were there which were pretty big names. Bigger than the guys that came last year to my school anyway.

 

It was nice to get a little taste of Florida a few weeks early.

 

Our weeks have been busy with basketball (and baseball camps), but not this weekend. We are heading to Burnsville to see Journey The Mysterious Island and look at getting a new couch.

LB