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Today's the day too!
To celebrate, we had a night “not here.”
Neither of us had spent any real time in the Starved Rock area, and I had found out about the Bayley House Suite. See their site for more information about the history of the house, but we had such a wonderful time, we felt compelled to share…
Randy & Robin have done a fantastic job with the renovation, decoration, and set up for this bed and breakfast. They were very inviting, and we spent some of our evening sharing stories with them by the fire.
They’d also set up for us a private fire pit for our use amid their extremely well put together garden. Our area of the house included a huge bathroom, a nice bedroom, a living room with TV, couch, and dining space, and an enclosed porch complete with sofa, hot tub, and a great view of nature. The decoration throughout was made things feel like home.
My only regret for the trip was forgetting my camera so we can’t share any pictures. Another reason for you to go their website and just one of many reasons for us to go back. Pictures to follow once we do!
Showing posts with label Birthdays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birthdays. Show all posts
Monday, May 17, 2010
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Winter Update
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There haven't been many posts, so I thought I'd summarize January & February here quickly:
There's been lots of snow. :o(
And with a lot of snow, comes a lot of movie watching...
Peanut's buddy Blaze visited...
More Movies were watched...
And, our little Jillian turned 8!
No pictures available, photography is impossible when 6 eight-year-olds are present and over sugared!
There haven't been many posts, so I thought I'd summarize January & February here quickly:
There's been lots of snow. :o(
And with a lot of snow, comes a lot of movie watching...
Peanut's buddy Blaze visited...
More Movies were watched...
And, our little Jillian turned 8!
No pictures available, photography is impossible when 6 eight-year-olds are present and over sugared!
Friday, May 30, 2008
Spring Birthday's Complete
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All in one day, we have the official last day of school (after two full weeks of movies) and the last of our spring birthdays! Yep, everyone's a year older and no more birthday's til next year!! :o)
Ok, maybe one more... maybe.
Anyway, here's to no school, fun summer day's and a few shots of last night's birthday boy...
All in one day, we have the official last day of school (after two full weeks of movies) and the last of our spring birthdays! Yep, everyone's a year older and no more birthday's til next year!! :o)
Ok, maybe one more... maybe.
Anyway, here's to no school, fun summer day's and a few shots of last night's birthday boy...
Monday, May 19, 2008
Happy Birthday to Me!!!!
Well another year has past, only this weekend it was my birthday. For all you who are wondering I turned 29 for the eighth time :-)
Tony and I took a half day Friday and headed up to the suburbs. We stayed at the Marriott where our reception was and had a fantastic weekend!!! We kept Friday night low key (well actually both nights). Near the hotel there is a new upscale shopping center that we walked to and checked out what they had. We ended up eating dinner at Cooper's Hawk restaurant. I'm sure the meal was good as well as the wine, but my sinuses were so clogged that I couldn't taste a thing. Tony ordered a flight of sparkling wines (Almond, Raspberry, and a Blanc de Blanc) I couldn't tell the difference between any of them. For those of you who know me that was a huge disappointment. So off to the store for sinus medicine for me. We ended the night just relaxing in the room watching TV.
The next morning we got up ate breakfast and then walked the shopping center again, this time buying along the way. After a few purchases we then walked to Lifetime Fitness where we both got hour long massages!!! They were wonderful, I was so relaxed I didn't want to do anything, but a call from my brother asking where we were watching the Stars/Red Wings game along with the score got us motivated quickly!! We quick showered and met up with him to watch the third period. It was a great game with a much needed win. Tony was thrilled to see Turco get an assist in the game (btw-he is the GOALIE). We then left "Q" and headed towards Redstone.
This restaurant is known for its pineapple martinis, affectionately known as stoli dolis. These go down so easy that I could have slurpped at least three of them down, but on an empty stomach that would not have been so good. So I stopped myself at one and we split an order of buffalo shrimp, yummy!!!! I decided that tonight dinner would be progressive, so next we headed to Braxton's for an amazing seafood dinner. We were supposed to go to Wildfire for dessert, but we were both tired and so full that dessert did not sound appealing!!
We went back to our room got comfortable and watched Hitch on the TV. This is one of my favorite movies, I laugh like an idiot throughout most of it. I am not sure if Tony was more amused by the movie or me hooting next to him :-)
Sunday came all too quickly and we got up, packed up, and then went back to my mother's house to go out to lunch with her. After lunch we loaded the Bobo and headed back down to Bloomington.
It was a much needed relaxing weekend for both Tony and I, but we were very happy to get the kids back last night.
This year's birthday was amazing and bittersweet. I couldn't help but think of my father at times. My birthday marked the four month anniversary of his passing and I find that I miss him more than words can say. He had a tradition of buying me a birthday suit/s from Nordstrom's every year and this was the first year without. My mother did follow in his foot steps and bought me my birthday suit and my husband was very generous with me at Ann Taylor Loft!!! The weekend was filled with little reminders of my Dad, but I could take comfort in knowing that he is happy and no longer in pain. On the off chance that he has developed computer skills up in heaven, "I love you Dad!"
Tony and I took a half day Friday and headed up to the suburbs. We stayed at the Marriott where our reception was and had a fantastic weekend!!! We kept Friday night low key (well actually both nights). Near the hotel there is a new upscale shopping center that we walked to and checked out what they had. We ended up eating dinner at Cooper's Hawk restaurant. I'm sure the meal was good as well as the wine, but my sinuses were so clogged that I couldn't taste a thing. Tony ordered a flight of sparkling wines (Almond, Raspberry, and a Blanc de Blanc) I couldn't tell the difference between any of them. For those of you who know me that was a huge disappointment. So off to the store for sinus medicine for me. We ended the night just relaxing in the room watching TV.
The next morning we got up ate breakfast and then walked the shopping center again, this time buying along the way. After a few purchases we then walked to Lifetime Fitness where we both got hour long massages!!! They were wonderful, I was so relaxed I didn't want to do anything, but a call from my brother asking where we were watching the Stars/Red Wings game along with the score got us motivated quickly!! We quick showered and met up with him to watch the third period. It was a great game with a much needed win. Tony was thrilled to see Turco get an assist in the game (btw-he is the GOALIE). We then left "Q" and headed towards Redstone.
This restaurant is known for its pineapple martinis, affectionately known as stoli dolis. These go down so easy that I could have slurpped at least three of them down, but on an empty stomach that would not have been so good. So I stopped myself at one and we split an order of buffalo shrimp, yummy!!!! I decided that tonight dinner would be progressive, so next we headed to Braxton's for an amazing seafood dinner. We were supposed to go to Wildfire for dessert, but we were both tired and so full that dessert did not sound appealing!!
We went back to our room got comfortable and watched Hitch on the TV. This is one of my favorite movies, I laugh like an idiot throughout most of it. I am not sure if Tony was more amused by the movie or me hooting next to him :-)
Sunday came all too quickly and we got up, packed up, and then went back to my mother's house to go out to lunch with her. After lunch we loaded the Bobo and headed back down to Bloomington.
It was a much needed relaxing weekend for both Tony and I, but we were very happy to get the kids back last night.
This year's birthday was amazing and bittersweet. I couldn't help but think of my father at times. My birthday marked the four month anniversary of his passing and I find that I miss him more than words can say. He had a tradition of buying me a birthday suit/s from Nordstrom's every year and this was the first year without. My mother did follow in his foot steps and bought me my birthday suit and my husband was very generous with me at Ann Taylor Loft!!! The weekend was filled with little reminders of my Dad, but I could take comfort in knowing that he is happy and no longer in pain. On the off chance that he has developed computer skills up in heaven, "I love you Dad!"
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