Water Parks Minus Sharks

Good evening everyone. Another busy week has passed with an even busier week ahead of me. Had kind of a nice week work-wise with two days off in the middle of the week, but we'll get to that later. Wednesday after school, Mia and BFF Olivia decided during class that they should go to Monkey Joe's. We had nothing planned and both her Dad and myself took the pint size pals to the inflated insane asylum. The girls had a lot of fun, per the usual sliding on just about everything. I love watching the kids play. They're so fun. I swear at one point, Olivia said to Mia "you and I have cute butts!"

Thursday, I took a rare day off so that after Jill got out of work, we could go to the Country Springs Water Park at their hotel. I have never been there before, and for $10 for three hours, you can't go wrong. Mia, who had woken up early that day to see what the Leprechaun left her, was able to keep a few moments of energy in her and enjoyed most of the water park. She didn't want to go on the bigger water slides, but really liked the lazy river. She tried a smaller water slide, but didn't care for the water that hit her right in the face. Later before we left, she hit up the arcade. She "beat" me at air hockey and won herself some things out of those claw machines. All in all, it was a really nice day together. She fell asleep on the way home and didn't get up till Friday morning. We didn't do anything special before I worked Friday. Just tried to clean before her birthday party coming up in a week.

Saturday I watched about 15 minutes of the Chelsea vs West Ham game. Jill, Mia and my Mom went to the Just Between Friends resale event in Waukesha while my Dad and I watched some of the game. We missed the majority of it, but I found out later they had a draw of 2-2. I had to take him to his acupuncture appt so we missed it. Glad they got a point out of it, but we should be doing better and at least try to win some games. Jeez. Later we went to Stefans for the old man to poke around and see what he could afford, which of course was not much. I saw the few Torrent jerseys left and one of the guys said that they sold out of all the adult sizes and only have small to kid size. That's amazing! They have to order more from the online store to be sold at store front. Incredible.  Later Saturday, Jill and I wrapped Mia's birthday presents, get the eggs ready for her birthday party/egg hunt and made homemade pizzas. Trader Joe's dough is so amazing. We finished the night off with some Man vs Food. Even Mia likes the show now.

Today, we did some cleaning and I washed some of Mia's new clothes. The fashionista needed more shorts and leggings. This kid is growing so fast. This week is very busy. Tomorrow, school and I have to drop off the eggs that she'll be putting into the Egg Hunt her friend's mom is hosting at the nearby park Friday afternoon. Wednesday,  She's got to bring her birthday treat to class and has an assessment test for her kindergarten she'll be enrolled in the fall. Thursday is spaghetti night at her school with a display of artwork (I have to miss it :() Friday, egg hunt with some kids from school, plus I believe one of Jill's friend is coming up as well. Saturday, CLEAN! Sunday, her 5th Birthday Party. So much to do, so little time. That's all for now. Thanks for reading!

Send Spring

Good morning everyone. Normally, I write Sunday nights my thoughts and the events that went down for the week, but when I came home last night, Jill was awake with Mia passed out so we stayed up till 12am, watching Man Vs Food laughing at this ridiculous show we've somehow never seen.  The week started out solid, weather wise with gorgeous back to back 70's. Nice to be able to walk out of the house without even a jacket on. Didn't last of course, and its currently mid 40's. Not unusual for March, but I'd prefer 70's the rest of the month. Wednesday after school, Mia and I watched Chelsea take on a very difficult PSG and the end result wasn't great, with the Blues exiting the UCL. The biggest trophy to win, and we got beat badly. I knew the challenge would have been difficult, but the players were just struggling. Costa put one on the board for us, but that was the best we could do. Defense was again, lousy.

Later that day, Mia tried skateboarding again. Still tough to get the balance, but she gets an A for effort. Found out this week that Stefans soccer store is carrying the Milwaukee Torrent home jersey. I can't tell you how exciting that is to see something I helped design being sold at a store front. I hope they sales go really well. Saturday, while photographing Mia in Jill's beautiful wedding dress, I watched Chelsea fall apart to Everton in the FA Cup. We officially have no more titles and cups left to play for. Summer is going to be quite busy for the Champions. I don't even know why we signed anyone last January. None of our new guys have played yet. Ugh. Changing topics...

Later, Mia planted Jelly beans to see if by Easter, they'll grow into candy. I love her imagination. For dinner we tried this place called MooYa where you can custom build your own burger/veggie burger/turkey burger. Crowded place, short staff but not bad food.

Sunday, daylight savings completely through us off for the morning. All of us had a severe lack of motivation to do...much. Hate daylight savings. We don't need to even observe it :P Over the weekend, we changed phone services from US Cellular to Project Fi. New service, new phones and better bills. :)

This week should be a quick and busy one. I took off Thursday so we can take Mia to the Country Springs water park to go swimming after 5:00pm. She's really excited. As far as the weekend, not completely sure what the plan is. May take her 5th Birthday pictures. Hopefully the weather improves and we can make the most of being outside with the extra daylight.

That's all for now. Thanks for reading!

FIRE!

Greetings. Hope everyone's been enjoying the amazingly beautiful weather. Over the weekend, We hung out at my brother Andy's rummage sale. Mia had fun playing with Easton, which is always enjoyable. The best was yet to come, Sunday. I was looking forward to the Chicago Fire vs Sporting KC game for quite a while. Despite not being a big fan of either team, I wanted to make it to an MLS game this year. Most importantly, I wanted to do something fun for myself and my father. We don't always connect, but with soccer, we somehow make it work. Anyways, the drive was simple. The two hours down wasn't too bad and before we knew it, we found the stadium. The seats were awesome, and the game was anything but boring. Chicago won 2-1. The first half, we had not one, but TWO penalty kicks. Ironically, the last game I saw, which was Chelsea vs Inter, there was a penalty kick as well :)

Anyways, it was a great time, my Dad had fun and we look forward to going to a game again in the future. Swansea will be playing Chivas at Miller Park (which seems to be getting just about everyone I know that loves soccer to go to the game) but I think I'm going to pass. Both teams I don't have interest in, and ticket prices are a bit more. Plus, I don't know how they'll lay out the soccer pitch, which could reflect where I would want to sit. I'm glad they are doing this game, because people who ARE big fans of the Chivas and/or the sport of soccer, a chance to see it on a more professional level. I won a $10 gift card from Stefans the other day. I had guessed correctly where the Fuelco fella (World Cup mascot) was in a photo in Milwaukee.

Took Mia to the final Tot Time till September at the trampoline park on Tuesday. Captain crabby pants was tired and whiney at times, but we still had some fun. Hoping to do some beach days in the near future since the weather has been so amazing.

Memorial Day weekend is coming up. Jill's familia is coming up Sunday, but I'll be at work. Hoping the weather stays as nice. Have a great weekend everyone, and thanks for reading :)