{An Illini in a Desert State}

Wordless Wednesday: He adores him.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

It's just not St. Patrick's Day for us if we don't have our $5 Old Navy T-shirts. Giang rolls his eyes at us every year, so I didn't get him one this time. But the boys loved theirs. And their matching hats. hee. (and I kind of think Giang wished he had a shirt)

 

 

(I've been downloading some digital files and have been playing around with frames on pictures. I've way behind everyone, but I don't care. I'm quite proud of the fact the shamrock color matches their shirts. LOL)

And then one with my shirt...

 

 

and apparently Old Navy doesn't change their shirt design much-here is the one from last year...

 

Hope you didn't get pinched today! I'd really like to be eating corned beef and cabbage, but since I am pretty much the only one that will, it's meatloaf and mashed potatoes tonight. :)

 

Wordless Wednesday: Love at the zoo

Because Ethan threw a fit until CK would hold his hand:

 

Even when riding in the stroller:

and even the camels:

(yep, their necks are entertwined. LOL)

I just thought the camel pictures were cute. LOL

Wordless Wednesday: Make sure you get the Lego guys

 

 

Nascar is in town...

It's that time of year again! NASCAR has started. And this is one of our favorite weeks...NASCAR is in town.

Since they are in town, CK and I did our annual tour of local hotels to see if any of the car haulers were parked there, but sadly, we saw none. The wackiness of this years Daytona 500 put everything behind. it's a 36 hour drive here from Daytona, and they just weren't here yet. And we didn't go look for them on Thursday night, bc they are usually at the racetrack by then, since the drivers have practice on Friday. I talked to my mom Wed night, who said, "I know you, and if you didn't have to work tomorrow, why do I think you'd take him out of school to find them?" LOL I laughed and told her the thought had crossed my mind. In my defense, I *would* have taken him to school after a quick drive around in the morning and a nice breakfast at Cracker Barrel, where I would have been searching other patrons faces for anyone I might recognize (i.e, from NASCAR). LOL

I know WAY too much about this. It's scary. I know that Doris and Lisa laugh and shake their heads when I've managed to work some information about Nascar into our daily emails. LOL And I have a feeling that no one but Gabby will understand any of my NASCAR references in this post. And that's ok. :)

Anyway, I saw a tweet Thursday morning that the driver of the #2 car(in the Sprint cup series), Brad Keslowski was going to be at the Discount Tire store 3 miles from our house last night. We decided to take the boys. There was a decent line, and Ethan didn't want anything to do with it (he did like the car), but CK was excited. His 1st NASCAR driver meeting! We even saw them getting ready to film a commercial there (Discount Tire is based here, and they sponser Brad's #22 Nationwide Series car). CK even got to meet the other driver, Parker Kligerman, that also drives the Nationwide car on the weeks Brad doesn't.

 

Brad Keslowski and CK:

Parker Kligerman and CK:

 

This is what we found Ethan and Giang doing when we got done. Ethan was laughing so hard! I love his face.

 

Discount tire bigwigs waiting their turn in front of the camera.

(I felt like such a paparazzi snapping pictures out of the window as we were driving away. LOL) 

But I have to say, this is one of my favorite pictures. I captured it with my phone as we were walking back to the car:

 

Happy Friday!