Happy Birthday Chad!

Happy 29th birthday to the best father and most wonderful husband ever! we love you!!!

Yes, I know that I am still older than you...but we are the same age right now! =)

Go Huskers!

On Saturday, Chad was invited to go to the Husker game with his mom since his dad wasn't feeling well. They have season tickets that have been in Chad's family forever! We decided that since the kids were already dressed for the game, we would head down and tailgate with them! They have friends that bring their motorhome to each game and have a parking spot close to the stadium. We parked in Chad's work lot (for free!) and walked down. It wasn't exacly close, about 5 or 6 blocks, but not too bad.

They got N tattoos!

A clown came around and gave the kids some stickers. Isn't Braxton cute?

Lilly the cheerleader!

We ran into Seth and Maria and said HI before we headed over to the motorhome. Once we found it, we had a great time hanging out with everybody and people watching in general. People REALLY get into the Huskers. The pep band came around, but the kids thought they were too loud! We had some beer from the guy next to us and had a good time in general! Chad decided that since I should go to the game since I had 2 beers. So he took the kids home and we headed to the game.

From my seat at the game, did I mention they have EXCELLENT seats?

The game was pretty good! I saw Ashley (from the Hawaii trip!) and she did a great job as a Husker cheerleader! The couple in front of us turned out to be from Alliance, what a small world it is! The guy was certainly not feeling any pain! In fact, well into the 4th quarter, he was still sweating whiskey. After the game, we headed over to Sacred Heart where Chad and the kids met us for mass.

What a great time! Thanks for letting me go to the game with you Rosie! I am sure we will be back to tailgate again! Oh yeah, Huskers won!

Potty Trained!

I can't believe that I never made a blog entry about this, but Lilly is 100% potty trained! My mom actually did the hard work. The week they stayed with the kids, Lilly went everywhere in real panties. I had never been brave enough to do that. Since then, she has only had a handful of accidents and is sleeping all night in big girl panties. I am so proud of her! and it is SO nice to not have diapers in the house anymore!

Way to go Lilly & Thanks Grandma Mimi!!!

The Blue Angels!!!

I have always loved the Blue Angels! I'm not sure how many times I have seen them, but I know it has been a few. We decided to head up to Offut this last weekend to see the Blue Angels at the air show! We went with the Master's family and had a great time! Luckily, they decided to stop searching everyone. We stood in line for probably 20 minutes without really moving, then suddenly the line started moving. I guess they decided that the threat of being searched was good enough and they stopped searching each person. We had a great time and stayed maybe an hour and a half which was plenty long for the kiddos! Afterwards we went to the Master's house and watched the planes from the front yard, and then from the neighbors backyard. We had a great time. Unfortunatly, we decided that we didn't want to carry the big camera around the airshow, so we left it at home. We got some pretty good pictures with the little camera though! Thank you guys SO much for sharing your airspace with us. We had a great time! All day yesterday Lilly asked when we were going to go back and see Radley, they had a great time! We need to get together more often.

Chad, Braxton, & Lilly going into one of the airplanes.

Lilly and I up on another airplane.

Chad & Braxton in front of a plane. Braxton was much happier with headphones!

The line to get into "Ralf's Plane".

Braxton & Lilly in front of Uncle Ralf's plane.

This big plane flew over Jodi's house a few times!

The Blue Angels!

Wedding Pictures!

The beach where they got married...so pretty!

Getting ready to say "I Do!"

You may kiss the bride!

Introducing Mr. & Mrs. Ralf Madrigal!

Now it is official!

CONGRATS!!!!

Congratulations to Geneva and Ralf! They were married today in Hawaii! Hopefully some pictures will be coming soon! We love you guys! Welcome to the family Ralf, David, Sara, and Iris!

First Day of Preschool!

Well, yesterday was Lilly's first day of preschool. For some reason, I could have sworn that it wasn't a real day of school but an open house of sorts. For some reason I decided to check the schedule and the open house was actually the last Thursday, which was also the first day of school for Braxton! I was so scatterbrained that I never even remembered. I felt really bad for missing it, but Lilly didn't seem to mind at all. We dropped Braxton off at school since he starts at 8 and took Lilly to McDonald's for breakfast. Since we still had over 30 minutes before preschool started, we went and walked around a bike path for a little bit. Lilly was SO excited for school. She wanted to go when Braxton did and got a little upset that she had to wait. It is finally time to go to school and she is practically running to the door! I did get her to stop and take a picture though! We walked towards the teacher, I asked her for a hug, she hugged me and darted inside. She was SO excited!

I knew that I might have some problems when it was time to leave though. When we left Braxton's open house last Tuesday, she DID NOT want to leave. She loved her classroom and her school. I got to school to pick her up and she is quickly telling me all of the things they did, I am having a very hard time understanding her because she is so excited! I ask if she is ready to go to Cindy's and she tells me that she doesn't go to Cindy's anymore. (Braxton goes to school and doesn't go to Cindy's so Lilly must not either I guess!) I ask her where she is going to go since I have to go back to work. She says she is going home, she doesn't go to Cindy's anymore. I finally convince her to go to Cindy's and play with her friends, she finally agrees. WHEW! She didn't throw any fits when we got to Cindy's, but wanted to know when she got to go back to school. So I guess school is a success! Let's hope it continues the rest of the year!