February 2014 Recap

I haven't been taking a lot of pictures lately.  I get into this non-picture taking funk in the winter.  After the bunches of photos taken over the holidays I put my camera down and don't seem to start picking it back up until February/March, except of course for my darling daughter's birthday.  Had we celebrated the January and February birthday this month, I probably would've taken my camera out more...but we're not celebrating until April.  I cannot wait until April to take pictures, that's too long!  I will likely start with the 365 prompts to get me going. In the meantime this is what I have for February.

After one of Alyssa's game's the McAdam's joined us to go get ice cream from Orange Leaf (the frog store). It's actually a frozen yogurt place where you can pick the kind(s) of ice cream you want and fill the cup with the toppings you'd like; and boy do they have a bunch of toppings!  The girls call it the frog store because at one point

Aunt Evelyn went with us to a couple of Jenna's games...after one at Dana, we went out to a Mexican restaurant that I had a coupon for.

Behind I am! Celebrating Rob's Birthday!

Being an avid scrapbooker, I'm told you should always work in the present and go back...that is what I have decided to do.  It is now March 2014 and I stopped blogging about a year ago...looks like right after Lina's birthday which is also in March.  Then I also found that I never posted 2012's vacation pictures.  So those are to come but for the present...

We celebrated Rob's birthday this past weekend with Evelyn and Gordon.  We all went to the UConn Women's Senior Night Basketball Game.  They have been going to this game every year for a few years now.  I've never gone because I thought it was something Rob could do with the girls alone.  This year Jenna was not able to go because she had a Community Weekend so I took her ticket.  Before the game, while Rob was working volleyball at the school, Lina, Alyssa, Maggie and I brought Rob brownies and his birthday gifts along with balloons to celebrate.

Rob had no idea I got him headphones.  He was very surprised and excited.  They are the Beats by Dr. Dre. Jenna got the same kind for Christmas and he loved them!  Alyssa got Rob a pair of pajama pants like the ones she's wearing below.  They have the Patriot's logo on them.  He loved (and needed) them too!

Maggie's parents had come by to pick up Maggie so they were there for the celebration.  Of course they picked up an iced coffee for Rob's birthday!  

Then it was off to the UConn game.  We picked up Aunt Evelyn on the way and met Rob's dad at a parking lot so as to avoid having to park 2 vehicles.

Alyssa forever hiding from me these days.  Bad girl!

Then we went out for Rob's birthday dinner.  He picked a place, Yukon Jack's in Storrs.  

Then Alyssa got took the camera and got creative.

Love this picture...so artsy!!!  Great job, Alyssa!

Can you believe this place did not have any chocolate for dessert.  So we busted out of there with the thought of maybe stopping somewhere (maybe ice cream) on the way home...but then forgot!

Easter 2013

This year for the very first time, we went to eat out for Easter.  How nice it was.  We met Steve and Lana's family and Gordon at the Olde Tymes Restaurant in Norwich, CT. 

After we ate, we found a local school to hang out at.  The kids played on the playground and we through the football around.

  

We're not sure what it is, but this was on the school grounds and we were trying to see who could get the ball into it.

And of course the boys got competitive! 

And somehow I fell (not surprising if you know me) and got all this stuff on my sweater and in my hair.  We were laughing so hard!  Then Rob got the girls!

It was a wonderful day! We'll see what next year brings.