Visiting Grandma Phoebe
After our big outing to the Indianapolis Children’s Museum, all of us went over to my Auntie Vickie’s house to visit Grandma Phoebe for a little while.
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The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis: Dinosaurs, Snow Globes and the Yule Slide
Small historical note: In the 3rd grade at Spring Mill Elementary, my teacher Mrs. McKenna gave a challenge out to the students. For anyone who could remember all the presidents and vice-presidents in order, and could recite them from memory… she offered up a special treat. I was one of the kids who did this, and I can’t remember who the other two were. I think Aaron was one of the other ones, but can’t remember for sure.
Early Christmas in Indianapolis
We continued the early Christmas tour by visiting my sister’s family in Indianapolis. We all went out to Maggiano’s for a family dinner, then back to Stacey’s house to open gifts.
Early Christmas in Atlanta
As is our annual tradition, we had an early Christmas with the Holder family at their home in Atlanta, GA. Recently, the Fords moved down to Atlanta as well, and are currently staying with the Holders. Needless to say, we had a very full house – which, over the holidays… is the best kind of house.
Liz Prepares the Annual Holiday Fruitcake
Liz has been hard at work in the kitchen this weekend, preparing her annual fruitcake. A few things you should know: first, this is not the usual dry and crumbly thing that most people think of, when the word fruitcake is mentioned. Second – there is a lot of booze in the fruitcakes Liz makes.
A Surprise Game of Lazer Tag (In My Apartment)
After reading things over, it dawned on me what I was looking at. This wasn’t some mere list of instructions or rules…
This was a challenge.
Early Morning at Wolff’s Flea Market, With Friends
Today was the very last day for Wolff’s Flea Market at the Allstate arena. Chris mentioned having an interest in going, and convinced Leslie to tag along. The night before, I got a call from Ben, also asking to tag along.
Jasmine and Jahnu Visit the Museum of Science and Industry
Fast forward a bit to the Museum of Science and Industry! On the main floor, we spotted the room for Month at the Museum 2. We didn’t catch Kevin, but I checked out his schedule and made a note to swing back later in the day.
Julie’s Birthday Day in Chicago
Liz’s mom Julie had a birthday a few days ago, and one of her wishes was to spend a day in Chicago. So Liz and I met up with Julie and Bob early Saturday morning, with a whole host of activities on the docket. First up – a plant sale at the Garfield Park Conservatory.
Baxter and Quincy: Laid Back Bunny Rabbits
They were fairly calm, though I’m not 100% if they’re simply dazed by being in this position. A few years ago, when Liz would trim Baxter’s nails and go through this whole process… Baxter held a grudge. For a few days afterwards, Baxter would keep her distance and would refuse to come near Liz.
Ballsdurdash: Game Night at Ben and Allison’s House
The game goes like this: one player looks through the Slang Dictionary and selects a word. They then tell the other players what the word is, and everyone writes down their own definition on a slip of paper. The person who picked the word writes down the actual, real definition. All the slips are turned in, and the person who chose the word has to read all the definitions out loud.
Babysitting Audrey and Sebastian
On Saturday, Tricia was visiting and showing her friend Katarina a bit around downtown Chicago. While the two of them were checking out the Art Institute, Liz and I were looking after Audrey and Sebastian. For the first half of the morning, I was actually out and about doing errands (borrowing Tricia’s car, since mine is currently at the shop due to hail damage).
Liz, Studying Up and Kicking Back
With the long holiday weekend, Liz and I have been super busy on our own projects. We spent nearly all of Friday and Saturday hard at it – taking the occasional breaks for food. It’s been a lot of head down, music up moments…
Photo Shoot in Frankfort
Over the weekend, Liz and I headed down to Frankfort to participate in some family photos. A friend of Tricia’s is a photographer, and was going to do some group/family pictures for all of us. What normally is a 45 minute trip ended up taking a little over two hours. Moments after we got into the car, we realized that…
Happy 100th Birthday, Grandma Phoebe!
For the grand occasion of my Grandma Phoebe’s 100th birthday, the entire Jung family met up in Indianapolis. There was a large banquet hall rented out, and friends from all over flew in to town to pay their respects, and to help celebrate the big day. Prior to the party starting up, we got the family together to do some…