Boy has life been busy in April. Where to begin? We had an excellent weekend at my Mom's on April 1, 2, and 3. I went to a bridal shower for one of my best friends from High School, Mandi. Then we went out for Mom's birthday to Wason's Supper Club. Awesome food. Afterwards we went bar hopping. It is really odd saying that you went bar hopping with your mom. But we went to George's, Wasons, Jailhouse and Tamarack. At the Jailhouse we had the birthday shot. I'm not exactly sure what is in it but I pretty sure Apple Pucker is in it. It is served in a bed pan. Ha ha! Great pictures.
We went to our first Twins Game of the year. We were joined by my cousin, Brad and his wife, Emily. It was so much fun. They actually won (which is rare this year) in 10 innings. This past weekend we went down to Wisconsin again. This is become a common occurrence lately. Mike had his Chicken Q fundraiser at George's. Yum, BBQ'd chicken. Mom and I helped out. I was putting the chickens in the to-go containers....those were some might big birds. My middle finger still hurts from the tongs. We had a huge birthday cake for my mom and she got flowers.
I made her a picture for her garage window. It was such a hit that I got a request for 2 more from her neighbors (see below). It was a great weekend.
Look what our naughty cat got into, he is on top of the aquarium. He was trying to get at the palms from Palm Sunday. Yesterday I got my first pedi of the year. I'm so excited for summer. Unfortunately I can't show it off as it snowed today. April snow is cool...it looks pretty when it comes down but it doesn't accumulate.
Can't wait for May! Only 31 days until Graduation! YAY!!

Happy April Fools!!! I'm gonna be published! Its official the John Wiley Textbook company is using my photo of the Liberty Bell crack for the cover of the textbook Deformation and Fracture Mechanics of Engineering Materials. (this is no April Fool's joke) Here is the photo: Cool huh? Sunday was my last official class for my degree. I still have 5 more Advanced Accounting classes but this class isn't required for my degree. I turned in my take home final on Thursday so I'm done with that class and I have my weekends back. YES!!!!
My lenten "work out every day" thing has been going great. I haven't missed a morning yet, even when I was suffering with my nasty cold! And the last 4 days Eric has joined me!! I know shocking...Mr. Morning Guy himself - NOT! And, as a result, I have lost 6 lbs! I have long way to go though.
The Minnesota River is flooding again. I know it seems like it happens all the time. It is the 3rd time in just over a year. So again our road to work is closed again. Normally this would mean super long commutes but that ain't so this time. MnDOT got smart and added another lane to the only bridge over the river! The commutes have actually gotten shorter! I'm getting work in 45 minutes and normal it takes over an hour. Sweet! The river crested on Wednesday but they expect it to crest again because it hasn't been warm enough to melt all the snow.
We are currently at my mom's house for the weekend. We have a bridal shower tomorrow and than we are going out to eat for my Mom's Birthday which is April 11.
That is about all that is exciting in our lives now.
Later!

It has been one of those weeks. Monday night we went to the Business Administration awards dinner. I was award the Second Major Outstanding Student for 2010-2011. Yay! After socializing with a couple of the professors, I found out that they basically created the award for me. Prior to this year they never recognized second majors....they do now. And who better to honor the first year than Moi? YAY. Here is a picture from the evening.

As for the title, I've been fighting a nasty cold. It started Tuesday night with a very sore throat and exhaustion. I basically came home from work and went to bed. Wednesday I felt fine and all day Thursday. After band Thursday night, the cold come back with a vengeance, I thought I had pneumonia. Friday morning, again I felt fine, but I got to work and felt sick again. Ugh. I got a good night sleep and feel much better today. We even went for our first bike ride of the year. A short 6 mile ride.

Today was our Eden Prairie Band Festival concert. It is probably the neatest concert ever. There were 6 bands from EP school district (5th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade, 10th grade and EPHS Symphonic) and then us, the EP Community Band. So the little munchkins are so cute with their simple pieces that were totally out of tune and then you can see the progression of experience and talent as each band plays their song. We played "Gallop" from First Suite for Band. Then all seven bands played another very simple song and ended the concert with Stars and Stripes Forever. You have to imagine there were 7 bands and at least 40 to 50 members for each so there were 300+ kids play at one time (I'm a kid right?). Really cool....and VERY loud.