Last supper

We Always make sure to have mexican food before leaving the country....because it seems like no matter where we are they can't do mexican food right. Caitlin and Matt decided to join us (they leave for India on sat)....   YEP london got his favorite black beans :D

Night with the Williams

Tonight was a Blackhawks hockey game and the Williams had a little get together at their new place...

Two second after this photo was taken london got a handful (and then mouth full) of doggie food!

Party at Mez's new place

Andrew had some friends and family over to celebrate memorial day, house warming and his birthday!

Beer and Peanuts (annual)

This year I went to watch the UOP Beer and Peanuts (yes without troy LOL). We went to support shannon who ended up winning fastest female time for the second year in a row! GO SHANNON! This was some pictures from yesterday's event.

Lakshmi and London

London thought Lakshmi was pretty cool--

Poker Night and some baseball

Last night we went over to the Wery's for some poker! We used to play all the time together in Thailand.

 

And then a photo from today- London dressed for watching his twins game!

 

Crawfish Boil---Yankee style

I should start of by explain what Yankee style means. Well all of us from "up North" have never tried to do a crawfish boil before. This is normally done outside in a 10 gallon container......we now know thats for good reason! We did it inside with two 1.5 gallon containers! Why do they do it outside---because the spices are so strong they make you cough and eyes burn (yes even us who have been in India already were surprised by that!
So you get the crawfish live so they taste better-----well some can apparently get out of the bag even before you get them home...And someone at Troy's work said you needed 10lbs per PERSON (since you only eat the tails that sound fine to us). But the place we went to go get them at sold only 27 or 45 lb bags. So we got the 27lb one.... (we ended up eating MAYBE 1/3 this bag!)Even after we get them up to the room we had some fighters in the group! (never leave your crawling infant on the floor with the fighting crawfish!)This is what the boil looks like in little pots.
So you pull the tail off the crawfish, suck the head juice out, then peel the tail for the meat. So here is Ben and I sucking the heads...

Birthday Dinner

Today for my Birthday some of the crew and me went out for dinner at the melting pot...YUMMY!

"auntie" Salley

Salley came over for a visit. And as always she has some magic in her that makes London sleep. I'm not kidding people EVERY time she holds him he sleeps! (And yes he is STILL in the same outfit from yesterday, its been a lazy day!)
Oh and check out the lack of glasses on her-she finally got Lasik surgery on her eyes!

"Auntie" Salley (part of our roadie family)

"Auntie" Salley had to come over tonight and visit before we left for two weeks.. (and thats his new Bummis Brite cover on the diaper :)

Monday Night footbal

Had our weekly MNF party...

Bronocos

Monday Night Football at our place again. BRONCOS are now 6-0 WOOOHOOOO!!!!!
Anyway here is London's newest diaper....Ben is trying to get him to walk already...men they just don't know baby time.Here is his I'm so sexy backwards look..This was troy's shirts when he was a baby. They say Defense on them.

Monday Night Football Party

Well looks like we are going to make this one of our things. So this monday we had another MNF party. Tonight for dinner we did bacon wrapped brats, cheesy potatoes, and popcorn balls.

Mississippi river cruise

Today a small group of use went on the steamboat Natchez in new orleans. Luckily it didn't rain while we were on the boat (because it did most of the day!)...

London and I-
Alex, Danielle, Troy and London-
During the trip we passed and oil refinery (very small one) but Troy walked us through all the parts....yeah I can still only point out the flare! LOL (flare is the little fire tower you can see at times)
The St. Louis Cathedral-
Two Navy ships ready and waiting for whenever they are needed-

Man in kitchen!

Ben came over tonight and cooked some Mexican for us...This is him starting to cook..This is him at the end--yep thats smoke, we had to take out the battery in the fire alarm!

Tic Tac Toe

Me kicking Ben's butt at Tic tac toe

new crew

Got some new crew members in this week and tonight we all went out for dinner and some Bourbon St action.

Yep even london hit up bourbon street..
Roadroom photo? (left to right Shannon, Ben, Hand-gernade guy, Troy, Alex, Cliff....shannon isn't on the crew here she was just stopping by on her way to spain)

Out for dinner

Troy had one of his manager come into town....he took us (and his wife) out to a nice dinner....

Getting some Basketball in and more fluffy mail!

Got my brand new Thirsties Duo Diaper covers in today!!!!!!!!! They are so cute, I love the bright colors.
Also tonight after dinner we got together with some friends to play some B-Ball (ok I didn't play but I cheered really well!)

Who's got the bigger bumpage?!

A group of us went to The Olive Garden tonight. And I had TONS of food--so post dinner was a good bump going on....so here is me and my friend Jason pushing out our bumps to see who's is bigger after such a large meal...(DAMN his is still bigger than mine!).