Whew!

Okay, I think I'm all caught up on posts again. Yay! We do have ALOT going on in the next two months though so I'll do my best, but I'm already anticipating that I'll be getting behind again.

The last two weekends have been really relaxing and sort of the calm before our summer craziness begins. Andrew went to Minocqua last weekend to help his mom and dad open up the family Cottage and get it ready for the season. He really enjoyed his time up there! While he was there, the girls and I just hung out. We went Webkinz shopping at the mall and had a very nice Saturday morning. We got smoothies and shared a cookie at Barnes and Noble, then visited the children's section. We went over to my dad's house after dinner to help him set up his new Wii! Yes, my DAD has a Wii. It was a lot of fun. We made Mii's for everyone and then played a few of the games. I've discovered the Wii is actually a really great learning tool for Ella to work on motor planning. Her speech disorder is a motor planning disorder. So for her brain to process a multi-step situation like: hit this button once, now hold that button down AND swing your arm AND then let go of the button right at this moment. Whoa, that is a really great thing for her. And it took her several attempts before she got it down. But once she got it, it was there. Very cool!

Then we had my cousin Cindy and her family over on Sunday. Andrew got home around 11:15am. So he was back in time to hang out with them. We spent much of their visit taking their family photos which was super fun. And I am most pleased with how they turned out (Check out the photo blog if you're at all curious). Then we just sat around and chatted while the kiddos played. It was nice to catch up with them. We couldn't remember the last time we hung out on a weekend when it wasn't a holiday or family event.

Then this weekend, Andrew and I hosted a little dinner party for a couple of our neighbors. One day a couple months ago, Andrew came to me and said, "I need to socialize. Let's have some people over and hang out." I laughed at him and asked him if he was getting sick of being locked away in our bedroom all day. :-) Kelly and Robb had us over for dinner last fall so we thought it would be fun to reciprocate. And we have gotten to know Angie and Ben down the street better in the last few months. Ben plays golf so Angie and I thought it would be fun for Andrew and Ben to get to know each other better. Maybe they could go out and hit the links sometime this summer. Hey, we organize playdates for our kids all the time, why not our husbands too? ;-)

Anyway, we dropped the girls off at my dad and Clare's to spend the night and came home to get the dinner ready. They came on over and drinks, good eats, and good conversation was had by all! I think we really enjoyed our kid-free time talking about everything under the sun. You name it, we probably talked about it! Just a truly wonderful evening.

And right now, Andrew and I are still enjoying our kid-free time as we have yet to go pick up the girls, but it's been great to get caught up on our own personal stuff.

Oh! I just remembered, I do have one more post to do. Andrew at the Masters. Oh, well, I was almost caught up. Maybe I'll still get to it yet today.

Hope you all are enjoying the warmer spring weather and have a great week!