Happy Birthday Uncle Chris!

Today is my brother-in-law, Chris's birthday. I was going to post a goofy picture of him, but Katie posted some great pics on her blog, so I will direct you to The Bartsch Beat blog on the right for a much better representation of Uncle Chris. We wish you the best, and for your birthday, Riley even learned to print your name! Happy Birthday, Chris!

TIGF

I'm thankful that Josh set up the crib in our room now so that I can sleep in my bed and not on the couch with Rowan. We had him in the bassinet so that if we ever get our house ready to put on the market, it wouldn't be glaringly obvious to buyers that we are selling because we have no place to put a second kid. It has served us well for seven years, but we have outgrown our lay-out and I don't want to discourage any perspective buyers if they maybe don't plan to have two kids or don't know if they want kids, etc. We had planned on getting the bassinet out of the room when we did showings, but Rowan had other plans. He flails his arms around so much he would hit the side of the thing and wake himself up every time we put him in it. We tried swaddling him, but he wants his hands out all the time so that didn't work. Now that we have the crib set up I have actually slept most of the night in my own bed. Whew! My neck was not a fan of couch sleeping!

Leprechaun Lunch

Today, being a day of all things Irish, Meg and I took the kids down to Lakeville to visit our friend and college roomie, Jess and her family to welcome their newest member, Finn Michael who was born on my Dad's birthday on Saturday. We brought them a "traditional" Cooley Irish lunch of corned beef, soda bread and green grapes, green peppers and green beverage as well as green jello for dessert.

Tomorrow, Katie and I are taking the kids to a new Irish pub for lunch...thought today would be a bit crazy for that *d:)

Happy St Paddy's Day!

Dad's Birthday

How often can you celebrate a March birthday outside in Minnesota? And it's not very often that my aunt and uncle who live in AZ can come to Minny in March and not freeze to death:) We had a great time at Katie and Darin's place on Sunday. Thanks Kate for bailing me out on this one! I've got the next one!!

Textulating

I still need to download the pictures from last night so in the meantime, here's a funny Riley-ism for ya.

Riley was playing with a toy that looks like a cell phone but works like a calculator a few days ago. I asked her what she was doing. Her response: "I'm textulating!"

What a Weekend!

This will take a few posts to get through. We had an amazing weekend! Started out Friday with a party at our friends, Tom and Adriel's place. They have been roomies for several years but they are getting their own places so this was their last party at the townhouse. Forgot the camera for this one but it was a fun night! Played a lot of music trivia and had a great time! It's gonna be weird not going there for parties!

Then Saturday was a wedding for two friends that we (Meg and I) sorta introduced to each other. I used to work with Tom and got him a job working with Meg at the credit union where she is friends with Kelli. We had the kids with us which was fun because Riley LOVES weddings...especially the dancing part! She found the photographer and followed her around all night showing off her best moves. YIKES! We had to leave around 9:30 but none of us wanted to go home...Even Rowan was up all night listening to the music and getting passed around:) It was one of those rare weddings where we knew both the bride and the groom and had a great time celebrating a great couple! Congrats Mr. and Mrs. Wever!