Memorial weekend!!

We had another crazy busy but fun weekend! We started out the weekend going to dinner with our friends, the Toppins, to plan a couple's shower that we are having in June for the Tris... it went very well... we decided on a menu and are good to go! On Saturday morning we hit the Farmer's Market in St. Paul with my parents and decided to start a vegetable garden! I love that place! We bought tomatoes, snap peas, lettuce, banana peppers and green peppers to start. Lots more to add though! Matthew had a great time helping MeeMee plant! Saturday night we headed to Ashley and Jordan's to Jordan's grad party... he got his MBA! Yea for Jordy!! Sunday was my mom's b-day and today is my sister in law Mary's bday! So Kristin and I had a family party for them at Kristins... it was the most perfect day... we had great food and enjoyed a few vodka/lemonades! On Memorial Day, my mom, Mary, Kristin, Kim and I headed to Grand Ave for some shopping and lunching! This was to celebrate the bdays again but with no boys and no kids! It was so much fun! We had an awesome 2 1/2 hour lunch at Salut. It is always so nice to have an uninterrupted adult conversation with the girls! lots of laughing that's for sure! We had such a great time until my mom tripped over a crack in the sidewalk... the poor thing! She scraped up her elbow and got a puncture would in her knee from her "fancy pants". Once we knew she was OK, we got quite a kick out of this! She had on a very cute pair of jean capris that had beading at the bottom... when she biffed, the bead made a puncture wound under her knee cap and pulled out a little piece of fat, which we thought was a tendon or a ligament or something... so we brought her to the ER (since it was a holiday) and they told us it was just a piece of fat. So we were in the waiting room and she decides that she is fine, she said as long as it wasn't a tendon she didn't think she needed to see the doctor. So we busted her out of the ER and were on our way. Needless to say we had a lot of laughs over this! My mom is so incredibly funny and can laugh at herself like no one I have ever met! I love her to pieces and I am so lucky to have her. What a riot! Thank goodness she is OK and just had some bruises and scrapes and not a broken leg or hip! Anyway, enough rambling! Below are some highlights!

We also went to the zoo last week... here is a pic of the kiddos! Ava Matthew and Lukey

Ava, my 4 year old niece took this picture! isn't it cute?! So impressive!
Here they are planting the vegetable garden... pretty pathetic, we have about 8 plants! Check out Matthew's gloves that about 10 sizes to big.
And the cute birthday girls!
This was our fun lunch before my mom took her tumble. Mom, me, Mary, Kim and Kristin

Baby Ben Turner...

Last week Ali, Dana and I went to visit our sweet friend Leslie who had her BEAUTIFUL baby boy BEN last Monday! He is the sweetest thing EVER! I REALLY want a baby right now! :) He is such a gorgeous little guy and Leslie looked great and has the new mommy glow! So fun to see friends so happy! Can't wait to see him again... what a honey!

Mother's Day, Wedding, B-day, etc.

So needless to say life has been crazy busy! I continue to wonder if it will ever slow down!? It has been almost a month since my last post!! That is the longest I have neglected the blog! Sorry. So May has been non-stop. May 1st was the anniversary of my sister Stacy's death. We still miss her like crazy! It has been 6 years, which is so hard to believe that life has gone on. So much has changed. I wish more than anything that she was here! So we celebrate her every May 1st by all getting together. We all went to the cemetery and let off balloons, "up to Stacy in Heaven". Then just the adults went out to dinner, which was nice. We are planning our 7th annual Stacy Egan Memorial Golf Tournament and started a blog for it... so now I have 2 to keep up! AUGH! check it out at http://stacyegantournament.blogspot.com/ Below is a pic of all of the kids waiting to let their balloons go!
And up to Stacy they go.

Next was Mother's Day! It was a great day, we spent the morning with my family... had an awesome brunch that my sister made and celebrated the moms as well as Lukey's 2nd b-day! Such a fun morning, then napped Matthew and headed out to dinner with the Schwieger side of the family at the Bierstube... everyone was there except Bridgit and Todd and the kids who live in Iowa. It was chaotic but fun! The best part of Mother's Day was the present that Matthew made me for. He was so excited to give it to me. It was a jar with pretty stones in the bottom and a votive so it was a candle... adorable!! Scary picture of me but he looks so adorable!

Then we had a very exciting b-day celebration for Mary Burns... she is my sister's neighbor, my old boss and one of my most favorite people. We had a little b-day lunch for her at my sisters with my mom and another neighbor, Tracey. It was so fun!

And on to the wedding! Ben's dad, Bob, got re-married and Ben was the best man! Jordan was the other groomsman. He and Karen seem very happy so that is great!

And here are the 2 cutest flower girls ever! Kennedy and Lauren! They were precious and did such a great job!

All dressed up!

The reception was at Mississippi Dunes golf course, it was so pretty! It started out raining but cleared up and was a great night! Here is Ben with his 3 sisters, Ashley, Tracy and Bridgit.

Us with my parents. So cute!

The next day (Saturday) we celebrated a late Mother's Day with the girls, since Bridgit wasn't home. So we went shopping without the kids and to PF Changs for lunch! SOOO fun! Then we went back to Ashley's and met up with the boys and kids and celebrated Bridgit's b-day a little early. It was so fun!! Then to end the weekend, we had a bridal shower on Sunday morning and a belated b-day party for Cullen that afternoon... It was a CRAZY busy weekend! Happy Birthday Bridgit!!!

So that is it in a nutshell and that was only the first 2 weeks of May! Lots more to come as we celebrate my mom, Mary and Stacy's bdays! Plus Labor Day is in there and we have another wedding! So fun! I think I need a vacation! :)