Monday, March 30, 2009

Train - American Girl - Chicago

I started planning this trip last year in August for Cassidy's 8th Birthday! Brooke will go when she turns 8 if she'd like too!! Anyways.....We decided to drive to South Bend, IN and take the train into Chicago. I asked my mom to go along to share the tradition and experience. We waited for months and finally the big day came.........

After letting Cassidy sleep in and dropping Brooke off to get to school. Mom, Cassidy & I drove to South Bend, IN and missed the train, I had printed a weekend schedule and they don't consider Friday a weekend so a nice lady at the counter wrote some directions on a post it note and we drove to Michigan City by the time we got there they are an hour behind and we had an hour and 45 minute wait - I was thinking is this a sign but Mom being all calm we waited and time flew so we hopped on there! It went really fast and we were glad not to have to drive in the city, once we heard all the HONKING!! Ahhhh, now I know why my Dad hated the horn! LMAO


We had so much fun shopping and eating and exploring the city! It was great! We did so much walking it was unreal but so worth it! We LOVE Chicago!


The American Girl store itself was truly AMAZING!! We loved it!! Cassidy picked a doll that looks like her and she named her Carly as in the show iCarly!


We had a reservation for months to eat lunch at the Cafe inside American Girl and it was the BEST thing ever! The food was AWESOME and the attention to our table was just awesome too! Cassidy was the first girl they came out to sing Happy birthday to and it was so funny to watch her. I was so proud of how grown she has become and such a young lady! I love her so much!!


Cassidy LOVED looking at the clothes and dolls. We got Carly's ear pierced and picked out several outfits and things she NEEDED!!


American Girl was so AWESOME!

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Kroger Field trip

It was a great time looking top to bottom at Kroger's! They even got to frost a cookie in the bakery! It was FUN!!!!!!!!!

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

I'm such a slacker!! I know!!

Okay so I have been slacking lately!! It just seems like I hardly have time! I mean sure I jump on fast to check e-mail or facebook but that seems to be it but I'm going to get back to it! Hope everyone is doing well! I love reading your comments let's me know someone out there is reading what I write!! Anyone out there??

Monday, March 9, 2009

Kalahari Luau 2009

It's been months in the making and finally the big weekend came! The Kalahari Luau Meet 2009! Woo Hoo!!
Cassidy was competing Friday morning at 7:45 am! So we went up Thursday after school, Shawn wasn't home so my Mom went along to help with the kid's in the waterpark. This very nice man named Jim helped us get everything out of the car and into the room and he was so full of information. We jumped into our suits and down to the waterpark we went. We had so much fun! We did go on lot's of slides then headed back to the room to get settled and roll Cassidy's hair for the morning! Mom ordered a chicken brocoli alfredo pizza, YUM!! We ate and were in bed with lights out by 9:45pm! We were up before six and we got around and went down the the meet. There Shawn, Dad, Norma & her friend and neighbor Rita met us! It was so cool to see Cassidy out there stretching and smiling so much. You could tell she was excited and nervous. She did a great job! All the girl's did great! I'm very proud of how much she has learned! After the awards Shawn, Cassidy, Brooke & I took over a three hour nap! It was NEEDED!!! We hit the waterpark before 4 and finally met up with our friends after 8 and we all rode and laughed until after 10 then we split up and we got pizza and it was so good! What a day so we did go back to the waterpark the next day until 2!! What a weekend!!! Thank You to Grandpa & Grandma, Grandma V. and Rita for your support at the meet! Thanks to Betty, Danny, Kelly, Lauren, Zach & Riley for the Friday night entertainment!! It was all so much fun!!