Easter Weekend

We had great weather this past weekend. Travis and I took advantage and grilled out Saturday night. I love having my husband home in the evenings!

Hammock fun time

Another Stop Motion

Sorry I'm Late from Tomas Mankovsky on Vimeo.

Easter 2010

This year for Easter we had a few friends and family over to our house. Of course, Travis had to work, so I scheduled a later dinner than I would have done normally. Everyone came over between 3 and 4:30 to snack on appetizers. Travis was home around 5:30 and we ate around 6:30. The table was full of food and, later, desserts. I am going to go ahead and apologize again for the overly spicy scalloped potatoes. The recipe called for chopped Chipotle peppers, which I did not actually measure out. Oops.

Rachel's ever-impressive baking skills at play. It's good to have friends-with-baking-benefits.

(with several goodies missing already)

My husband, his 70's-long hair and Toby

Scott and Rachel, looking Easter-y

Ariel enjoying a cupcake, as Robert pays absolutely no attention to the camera whatsoever

Not pictured: Chris, Alexa and Blair - didn't break out the camera until after dessert. =(

The photo of Aiden is the day after Easter. I just wanted to get in a shot of that crazy stuffed animal Auntie Ariel brought in an Easter basket. The colors sort of go along with Aiden's room, except that we have NO IDEA what it is. A frog? An alien? A colored egg? It has webbed feet, eyes and bunny ears. Your guess is as good as mine!

Despite sending food home with everyone, we are still working on leftovers. Bring it on ham sandwich.

Only $7 (plus tax)!

Dude Da' Bunny hopes you had a happy Easter!

I need to find out where Dude gets his bling!
(This was seriously on the shelf at Walmart.)

Kilbury-Routh-Hargus House

Growing up we lived in an old Victorian house that was built in 1895. I came across this photo today and it shows our old house at the end of the road before it was moved. The house was moved twice. The first tmie was in 1959 when it was moved just a few yards because they built Interstate 74 and wanted the on ramp to be where this house was sitting. The second time was when my parents bought it and moved it to their land, where it sits today!

I'm not sure what year this photo was taken, but it has to be before 1959 since it is in it's original location and the roads are MADE OF DIRT.

Also found this photo. I worked in this building in high school at the St. Joseph Apothecary, where I was a Pharmacy Techinician. When this photo was taken, it was still the depot for the Interurban - a little trolley car/train that you could ride to and from the "big city" of Urbana for just five cents! When I was a little kid, I used to go up to the pharmacy that I later worked at and bought Tootsie Rolls and individual Jolly Ranchers for five cents each. Irony, anyone?

April Fool's, Google Style

Missing vowels?

31 Fingers and Toes?!

This is just ridiculous. I've heard of an extra digit on each hand, but NOT THIS. Can you imagine asking if your newborn has 10 fingers and toes, only to find out the answer is nope? 31.

Chinese boy has surgery