Monday, December 31, 2007

Last Game and Blog of 2007

Mike invited me to go to the Bears game Sunday. He and I got down to tail-gate at about 8:30 a.m. We hung out and made our way into the stadium at about 11:50 a.m. When we got in I received a call from Aim and she told me that she, Chris and Kimmy had scalped tickets and were on the Cadillac Club side. so at half time Mike and I made our way over there and I greased the guy at the club entrance and boom! The 5 of us got to watch the game together. It could not have worked out better- and a little bonus was the Bears won- Not bad!

It was getting very cold 21 degrees to be exact with the wind-chill. Chris and Kimmy being from Arizona were not likin it so we moved inside to the Cadillac Club.

The Bears were not looking good at this point

Just before Devin Hester ran one back

The Chrises and Mike and lots of blue-moon

After the game Kitt came and met us at The Boundary a spot around the corner from our place




This is the final blog of 2007- The year that I began blogging- The year we got engaged- The year I got a niece and a new cousin- The year Aim got her first brand new car- The year we got closer to one another and eachothers family-

We want to wish to all of our friends and family a Happy New Year 2008

Saturday, December 29, 2007

Happy Birthday Wendy!



We had a lot of fun with you guys when you were here! We are lucky to have you in our family. Happy Birthday from all the Chi-town familia!

FIGHT NIGHT TAKE 79

Saturday we made the trip out to Lombard once again for the biggest MMA(mixed martial arts) fight ever- Chuck Liddell VS Wanderlei Silva. Jaryl and Derri(I say that all the time so I'm not changing it) hosted us as always. Kimmy and Chris are staying by us through New Years so they came as well.
There was even more reason for this fight card to be excited... The whole Family was there, my parents, the Ryskes (Aunt Lynda and Uncle Bob) and the whole Timmons crew (cousin Jami, Chris and the three Ps, Peyton, Paige and Piper)

The Chrises


Before the fights I supervised a bounce house session in the basement. Peyton was ready for the main event so he peeled his shirt off

Piper plays peekaboo with Aim-

We had a nice din din before the fight and the whole Chi-town fam was here... It was awesome- The blood sport proves yet again to bring families closer together- Thanks to Dana white and the Fertita's

Aunt Lynda helps piper eat the rosa marina-

Jami and Jerri discuss the trials and tribulations of motherhood... or were they talking about Georges St. Pierre's Skivvies?

The Timmons with little Piper

Great minds think alike (same shirts for the not so observant)

Wild-Cats

Friday night Aim's best friend alexis AKA Kimmy Gibbler cam in from Arizona. Her boyfriend Chris came in as well. We always have a great time with them, so we hit the town-

We went to dinner at J Alexanders one of our favs, great steaks- Kimmy treated!
-Thanks(Suka)-

The Chrises

After din din we walked down to Zella and met up with some friends Kim and Christine

You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses would ya?

Friday, December 28, 2007

5 years in the making

Saturday a fight that has been five years in the making will finally go down.
The Ice Man Chuck Liddell is fighting The Axe Murderer Wanderlei Silva- It's gonna be a war- We are watchin it at Daryl and Jerri's








You may remember that we met Chuck in September

Yep Chuck and I go way back-

Thursday, December 27, 2007

January, and winter in general makes me think of the color Blue

So this is Christmas

I gave Aim a L.A.M.B. purse

Aim gave me an all in one fax, printer, copier, scanner, nice!






We woke up Christmas morning and took luigi to the dog park.
we had a long day ahead of us... we split the day between eachothers families

Lou catches his breath between throws

After the dog park we strolled down to Starbucks-


Then we headed to Elmhurst for the the first part of our christmas day.



The girls with the Momma Dowiarz

The girls with their grandpa "Big D"

Kitt and Mike brought their puppy Diamond

Aim's Aunt Lisa

Kitt and Mike sat with us during the gift exchange-

After the exchange we sat down and ate a little din din.

After the Dowiarzs' we headed over to the Ryskes for 2nd part of our Christmas extraveganza-

Paige and her Godmother

The desserts are served-

We sat on the couch and watched the craziness of the kids and the dogs.

Piper Lynn

Digesting

These two with the cookies-Too funny

The Cali-Gapps went through a bout of sicknesses during their visit here. Isella was not feeling well either on Christmas day.

Waitin for dessert

Popps and Uncle Bob

The toy room was busy today

Monday, December 24, 2007

Twas the night before Christmas( and Popps birthday)

AJ reads to the family about the true meaning of Christmas-

Crown pork roast and my favorite green bean casserole

Nice spread

Aunt lynda and Cooper-

Daryl and Popps

Cali-Gapps chillin(19 degrees today by the way)

Kitchen snap shot with my Brada and my Popps

Too cute

Aunt lynda and Jerri-

Happy 59th Birthday Poppa!


Just what I wanted... Tissue paper!

Gapastione University... The GU mascot you ask? Leave a Comment-


Isella made out like a bandit(according to Gavin she got way more presents)

The Momma opens her eye cream-

Gav sports his new hoody too!

iPOOD shirt for Isella

The kid has good upbringing he cleaned up the wrapping paper and took the garbage out without being asked. The apple is close to the tree buddy-

Next year she'll be able to wear the hoodie-