2012 Superbowl

The Superbowl was in Indianapolis this year, and boy was it a big party! The city was just so alive with energy and excitement, we had a blast. We took the boys down one night and they got to have a little fun too.

Super smart Jerome had me call over a year ago to make dinner reservations for the Saturday night before the game at Capital Grille. Capital Grill is attached to the Conrad Hotel which is one of the nicest hotel in city, so before dinner we had so much fun celebrity stalking! We saw Lenny Kravitz, John Elway, Drew Brees, Danny Devito, Rhea Perelman, Lance Bass, LMFAO guys, Stephen Baldwin, Mark Cuban, and other sports people that I didn't know! lol

Finally, the best part of the week was that Jerome actually WON tickets to the Superbowl. We still can't believe it, amazing! Jim Irsay was having giveaways all week long for the season ticket holders and we acually won! So Jerome and I were able to actually go to the game, which was incredible. What a fun week, we both feel like we need a vacation after the weekend though!

Lacey & Stephen Baldwin...he asked me if I would help babysit for his 10 year old nephew that night! ha!

The girls and John Elway

For Grandpa Ringger...

At the game!

Crazy Colts Guy

Downtown on game day!

Ready for SUMMER!!

The Ringger family just booked a summer vacation trip to Michigan this summer, and we cannot WAIT!! So ready for another beach vacation with all the people we love the most! :) I came across this picture as I was "organizing" the office (basically moving stuff around in nice little piles, thanks Mom for this system!) Anyway, it just made think about how ready I am to have tan little smiling kids again, with no worries about school buses, tutoring, soccer practices, boy scouts, basketball practices, homework, science fair projects, and list goes ON & ON!

Quick funny...

Okay, I know I need to update on Christmas and so many other things...but I just have one quick little funny story. This morning Jerome was heating up something for himself in the microwave. Well...who would have known that if you put a small hotwheels paperplate with shiny areas on it in the microwave that it will literally explode, and you will have a little fire in your kitchen. So as Jerome and I are frantically trying to put it out on the kitchen floor and finally scoop up the flaming plate and throw it out in the snow...I notice Eli running past me in a flash screaming "escape, escape, escape!!!". He was at the garage door with Millie in his arms (and BIG tears in his eyes) within 5 seconds. Poor guy went into "EMERGENCY PLAN" mode so fast. It was so cute and so sad at the same time, but also I was stinkin' proud of that little guy!

The Rad Moves

Oh my, it's been so long again. Here is just one quick funny video to share. I am amazed how different each one of our goofy kids are. Eli has no lack of confidence, and even though he can get on a person's nerves A LOT, he also cracks me up every day. The boys got video cameras from Grandma Everett at Thanksgiving. I found them upstairs making movies of each other dancing, burping, jumping, etc (just about anything you can imagine that 6 & 7 year old boys would think is funny...yes, as you can imagine, there were a lot of deleted videos once mom downloaded). Anyway, I helped them make this video of Eli because he was just cracking me up...Enjoy Eli's "Rad Moves"

It's about time...

I wanted a baby girl so long, but now that I have one, I barely even treat her like a girl. She's such a roughneck with her brothers, and at this point prefers to play with trucks over baby dolls. So this morning I decided it was time to do something girlie and paint her toenails for the first time. To my surprise she sat very still and even helped to blow them dry!

Caden was home so of course his big head is in most the pictures, and I spent the majority of the time explaining reasons why he couldn't paint his toes. I finally told him that Max, Cole & Eli would make fun of him for having pink toes. His response, well I can beat up Max & Cole, so I don't care about them, and Eli's my brother so he doesn't matter either. So I gave in and painted one pinky toe, which he thought was hilarious, UNTIL...he wanted it off, and I told him I didn't have any remover. Then it was tears & sceaming that I was so mean because now he was going to have to wear socks and tennis shoes his entire life. Seriously??

1st day of school

I think when you go from "welcome summer" to "1st day of school" on your blog posts, that may mean I am slacking! Well anyway, I can't believe but my boys started school today. Eli is starting kindergarten and Caden is going into 1st grade. Oh my. They were VERY excited this morning and I am praying it will last. As we waited for the big bus to roll up, Eli whispered to me "I'm even more excited than I thought I would be". So cute! I held back all the tears, but will be watching the clock all day...can't believe they are away from me until 3:50pm! Not sure what the princess and I are going to be ALL DAY by ourselves. She already has asked me several times "KK at? YiYi at" which is how she says there names.

Getting on the bus...and still smiling! Please God let this last!

Caden and our neighbor Elle, both big 1st graders now!




Eli has to try to look "cool" for every picture

Just one of little Millie :)

Cheers...it's summer!!

We are really enjoying summer and we are trying hard to SLOW DOWN our days (which is hard when you are married to busy body Jerome)! At least once a week now, we start our day toasting each other with fruit smoothies on the deck. So hope you are are having a great summer and Cheers!