Early Easter

Mike has to go to both San Francisco and Paris so he decided to get it all done in one big trip. He is leaving on Wednesday and will be gone on Easter. So, we decided to celebrate Easter with his mom, dad and brother last Sunday. As always dinner was fantastic! We had ham steaks on the grill, cheesy potatoes, asparagus and Kathy got me a super yummy piece of salmon and made dill sauce for it. OH... I CAN'T forget the Easter bread, cream puffs and spinach dip!

Mia and I dyed eggs on Monday. Mike worked late and Gabriel didn't want to help, he said "I just wants to play with my train". I had read about tie-dying with kool-aid so I figured it might work with eggs... And it did.

I was having a hard time deciding if I should do easter baskets when Mike was home or wait until Easter, but then it ended up that I am going to meet Mike in Detroit on his way from San Francisco to Paris on Saturday and go with him for a couple of days. (More on that when I get back!) Now that I won't be home on Easter we just HAD to give the kids baskets early (if you don't know, I am HORRIBLE at waiting to give people gifts I have for them), bummer!!

Last week Hasbro had a lot of great coupons in the paper and Target had quite a few of the games on sale. So for Easter they got... Chutes and Ladders, Sorry (that our dogs had eaten about 2 years ago and we still used the chewed up pieces) and Connect 4, some Play-Doh, M&M's and super cute cupcake suckers I found at Prime Cuts made by "Oh Susannah" Specialty Cupcakes.

I think Mia got to her chick before I took a picture... the beak and wings look a little... eaten.

Another Business Trip

Mike takes A LOT of business trips (as I am sure by now you know). San Francisco, Denver, Dallas, Chicago, Copenhagen, Paris... the list goes on. People keep telling me I should go with him. So I did! To Grand Rapids, MI (Insert the "I crack myself up" laugh here)!!

Mike had a meeting with a client in Grand Rapids this afternoon and was not going to be home till just about time to put Gabriel to bed. So we decided to tag along. With Mia being on spring break this week (and spending all week at her dad's house) it worked out perfectly because I didn't have to be home at a set time for her. Gabriel and I met Mike at his office and I drove us up to GR (That worked out great for Mike because he could be on the computer THE WHOLE WAY. Please refer to my "love to hate" post here). After dropping Mike off at his meeting we went to the Grand Rapids Children's Museum. Gabriel had a blast playing with everything. After the museum we decided to go to Target to waste some time and so when Mike called us to come pick him up we would be close. We walked in to the store, grabbed a coffee & chocolate milk and Mike called (I think he has a call out to all Target stores so when I go in he knows!). After grabbing dinner at Smoky Bones we headed home (with Mike driving this time)!