so what did you so Saturday afternoon?

Well i'm glad you asked. I had lunch at Wrigley field. Now this may not sound so unusual because i spend a lot of saturdays watching games at wrigley often eating my lunch. This past saturday the cubs were out of town, yet i still had my lunch at wrigley field. How was this possible? It was wrigley field neighborhood day. The cubs invite people within certain zip codes to enter a lottery for an invitation to wrigley field on an afternoon when the cubs are out of town. After seven years of entering the lottery, i finally won. As if that wasn't exciting enough... Mary and I showed up saturday afternoon not sure what to expect. 1:45 right on the dot I signed us in and we entered the park. We first grabbed a beer and a dog then found our way to the visitors dugout, after discovering the cubs dugout to be closed, there we enjoyed our lunch. with lunch finished we walked over to the bullpen to sit in the sun. After a sit we got up and played catch in the outfield. We only tossed the ball a few times, since we were short a glove. We proceed to the bases for a "home run trot" around the bases. We spent the rest of the afternoon walking around the outfield, warning track and sitting in the grass. It was a sunny and beautiful day even with the cold wind. What a wonderful way to spend the afternoon with about 200 of our closest neighbors. Pictures to come.

how can you not smile...

when you look at this picture? He is too cute for his own good.

the hosts

This is the shower committee and guests of honor on Saturday, April 28th.

Shower #2

This is Ann-Marie's second shower, the church shower. I'm guessing there were 60 to 65 people in attendance. The theme was movie theater. It was so much fun. The first picture is Ann-Marie opening one of the many, many gifts while Daivd is sitting by smiling. The middle picture is the centerpiece on the main food table. We served hot dogs, nacho, popcorn, coke, chocolate covered raisins, dots, snowcaps, well you get the idea. the last picture is the alto section singing a song to Ann-Marie and David.

more creative stuff

these are my Martha Stewart flowers. They are not looking the best. I made them before Easter and forgot to take a picture. This picture was taking saturday, April 28. They are starting to droop but you get the idea.

So my napkin says... You look hungry. why not have a cookie?

Egg cozy

I was bitten by the creative bug this spring. One of the creations includes this egg cozy or egg hanger for an egg tree. I knitted them for every one at Easter dinner.

Tickets

I got my tickets. Took the day off Monday and waited until for the doorbell. I felt very trapped. The "window" of time was before 7:00 pm. yah... 7:00 pm. They could have arrived as early as 8:00 am. That's an 11 hours "window". Fortunately the bell rang about 1:00. I ran down and was ready to hug the delivery guy, until he started complaining about this time of the year and delivering all the tickets with signature required. thanks for ruining my excitement. I did rip into the package as soon as i got on the elevator... I have my tickets the season can begin.