Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Night at the Races - Mom's 71st Birthday

We always love to go to the Night at the Races out in Wentzville every year. Always so much fun. This year, we were big fat losers!!! We even took to betting on rock/paper/scissors b/c we couldn't win any races! Not even on the side bets! Jim, by the way, was not good at the R/P/S game...but I was :)

We also celebrate my Mom's birthday at that time b/c its always right around it. I put in all of these pictures b/c I think our family is so funny how they all jump into pictures (NOTE--It's not ONLY ME :)










Happy New Year 2012

We start the new year off at Billy and Kelly's house every year. Diets and resolutions don't start until Jan 2nd in our family. We spend the 1st day pigging out and enjoying time with family, talking, eating, and playing games. The kids love to play over there too!

Greg and Billy with their matching Christmas gifts from Brian---TOO FUNNY!!!

My beautiful girls
Cousins hanging out (Alli, Marissa, Jenna, Henry, and Billy)

Katie, Billy, Jane, Ken, and KellyCassie living the dream with all of the new toys!
Cassie and her favorite cousin Lexi
Playing dice....


Was going to get a cute picture of Ann and the boys, and then one bonked he in the nose ;)

And she wins it!!!
Never enough candy and snacks for Jenna

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Found this old post

So, I was already far behind, but now almost a year! Here is a post I found that I guess I never posted. I'm just going to post as is and I'm really going to try to get better!!!!! I'll add a few captions to the pictures though.

Wow! I've been REALLY bad about updating lately....I just went through the pics on my camera and some old posts and realized that I missed a lot of summer stuff....so I'll just post a few cute pics. We did go to Tunica this summer (without the kids), went to North Carolina to visit with our cousins from Poland. That was fun---I love to see them--they are so nice and fun to hang out with. So glad we have a relationship with them and we've been able to get to know them :) We also went to Lake Michigan (we stayed in IN). Quick easy trip that was so much fun and almost the whole family went.

We tried to go to the Biltmore Mansion, but we didn't know it was like $60 a person....forget that!!!! We just took a picture in front of it :) This was on our way home from our trip to North Carolina.


Aunt Joan, and my cousins Alicja, Victoria, and Genny Me and my girls - this was at the pool at Steve and Victoria's...they made us dinner when we arrived and we sat around eating, drinking, and catching up.

Steve, Radek, Uncle Dan, and Jim
Aunt Joan, Jenna, Me, Alicja, Victoria, Genny, and Mom

We went to see a band at a park and it seemed like it was going to be so much fun....then a huge thunderstorm came and we all had to leave....so we went back to Steve and Alicja's place and drank some Polish vodka and hung out :) The whole trip was so much fun and relaxing and just all about seeing our Polish family!Playing at McDonald's on the way to North Carolina....had to stop a few times to break up the drive and keep the kids happy :)

Alli lost her 1st tooth last May...on her last day of preschool and the day I registered her for kindergarten! What a busy day---she's really growing up! She just now lost her 3rd tooth last week---another is lose...Tooth Fairy is going to go broke ;)
Stopped in Nashville on our way home and met up with my friend Donna for breakfast at Cracker Barrel. I'm thinking she couldn't get out fast enough---our kids were a little wild...they aren't too used to going out to restaurants (b/c we know its a lot to handle and b/c its hard to go out to eat with Alli's milk allergy--we go to a lot of the same places where we know she can eat the food). They are getting better now at restaurants, as we have been taking them a little more now. It was good to see Donna---we stayed close after she moved back to Nashville and we used to visit each other a lot, but I guess with kids, its harder. She has two and I have 4. Hopefully I'll see her sometime this year again when I visit Jackie.

I guess this was last spring or summer....this is my Cassie wearing her "poker face" :)