Scratch that...

We're going to the final four baby!!!!!!

Holy moly I'm still in shock. SOOOO proud to be a Butler Bulldog. I LOVE MY DAWGS!!!!!!!

GO BUTLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**post 2 for today**

Ok, so Butler is in the Elite 8! Go BULLDOGS!!!!!!

I love Butler, so here's a little, itsy bitsy tribute.

We are a Butler family. {Feb. 09}


My roomie Talia with baby Cooper!


...and this is Talia & I, as roomies, freshman year.... oh the memories.

Vegas Baby!

Las Vegas...

Crazy city.

For Matt's birthday this year, I decided to surprise him with a trip to Las Vegas!!! He was super excited, he had never been there and it was a perfect birthday gift! We were there for 3 days, which was PLENTY long enough, we stayed at Mandalay Bay, and walked and walked and walked and walked every day! Here are a couple highlights of the trip!

Harley Cafe. YEAH! We had to eat there, it's like my mother ship.


Matt playing a HUGE slot machine! He was trying really hard to win.

Walking over the strip! It was super busy... against my knowledge, it was Nascar weekend. That was a WT weekend if I've ever seen one! {NOT saying all nascar fans are WT, just the hardcore creepy ones that we saw}


Matt's buddy Jamie was telling him all about the Casino Royale Denny's and their $1 beer specials... this was on Matt's must-see list!



We did see a couple shows while we were there. We saw the Blue Man Group - I love that show. VERY cool and very entertaining if you've never seen it. It's permanent there so the venue is amazing! We also decided to see Phantom of the Opera. HOLY MOLY. If you haven't seen it - this is the place to go! It was an AH-MAZING production, the staging was spectacular and it was just incredible all around.

We did a lot of site-seeing (aka walking), cruised the hotels, checked out local eats and just had a good time on absolutely no schedule.

Happy Birthday Matt! (and thanks Kim for watching our baby for us!)

Weekend in Walloon

So the weekend following our time in Chicago, we headed to my parents house in Northern Michigan for the weekend!

Matt & I got to go skiing. This was Matt's 2nd time EVER and my first time in about 10 years. We both did very well! I only fell once... because I was {ahem} trying to show off by doing a jump. That didn't work so much.


We had a lot of good family time. We were there with Cooper, all the Huffman clan was there along with my parents! It was definitely a full house, but we had fun!

I dressed Jadyn in a Minnie sweatshirt that my mother has had for-ever! Hellooooo 1986!

We had pizza night Saturday... and Addisono had a pizza mustache! :)


Cooper & Addison LOVED spinning on this chair. This was after a spin and we stopped to snap a picture!

Of course, there was snow. Cooper loves being outdoors and could not get enough of the wintery weather!

Uncle Roger pulled Addison & Cooper around on a sled - Grandpa Wilbur already had a long turn pulling them around while we were all out skiing. The lake was still frozen, so they got pulled around there too! They loved it.


Gma & Gpa helped Addison & Cooper build a snowman. Here is Cooper destroying it. Poor things head was already gone, Cooper was going for the body!

Cooper is really funny about the snow being on his gloves. He REALLY doesn't like it to be stuck to him. He's trying to shake it off in this picture. He's so cute!


Cooper & Addison are buddies. They loved having a weekend to play together in the snow!

Next up.... Vegas.

Giveaway anyone?

Do you like giveaways? I do! I gotta say tho... as many as I've entered, I have yet to win. Oh well, what are ya gonna do?!

My friend is doing a giveaway on her blog from CSN stores - a Step 2 easel with a magnetic/dry erase board side and a chalkboard side! Check it out here.

This is a super cool prize - something that I've looked at for Cooper when he's old enough - he LOVES magnets on the fridge and just recently got into coloring! Can't go anywhere to eat without making sure he has a crayon to draw with! Thankfully he's almost past eating them. :) Ok, enough yackin, go check it out!

Good luck! I know I'm excited.

Super busy... but super fun!

Yes, it's been a month. Where have we been? Well, to sum it up, we have been B-U-S-Y! The last 4 weekends not only have we been working, we have also been traveling. A lot.

So... to catch you up on our lives... I'm going to do a series of blogs in the next couple days because frankly, I'm tired and can't do them all at once. So our first weekend of craziness began... Feb. 13.

Valentine's Day Weekend - we decided to take our little Cooper to the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago for a Saturday "get out of the house or we'll all go crazy from being cooped up ALL winter" day! Here are some pictures from Shedd.

Cooper loved to check out pictures, feel the different textures, etc.

Gettin' ready to watch the dolphin show! Cooper wouldn't take his eyes off the water.

Cooper pointing at the dolphins!


Enthralled with the dolphin show.

After the show we checked out the penguins. To say Cooper enjoyed his time watching the penguins swimming & playing may be the understatement of the year!

He LOVED the penguins!!


It was a long day in Chicago - Cooper was such a champ, but by the end of the day, he was beat!


Watching a TV at dinner very intently!
{One of his new thing is putting his hands under his face like this. Yes, I'm biased but he's so stinkin' cute!}

Of course Sunday was Valentines Day. I have 2 of the cutest Valentines around!

Cooper loved trying to figure out how the heart box {post-chocolate pigout} went together...


...and this was as close to a pose with the box as I could get!

We had a very fun Valentines weekend, but were exhausted. I was glad to have some family time together, since we don't get much of that during the week with our crazy work schedules!

Coming up next... A weekend at Walloon!