Memorial Day Weekend

I know I am so behind on posting, but I'm trying to catch up...honest! Over Memorial Day weekend, my parents and brothers came to visit from Georgia. We had a busy, fun-filled weekend!

Daddy and Oliver, as we walked along the canal downtown

Noah, Brock and Pawpaw, outside the zoo

Brock and Noah, inside the NCAA Hall of Champions

Duking it out as "referees"

Yikes, Nini has a gun!

I don't think Oliver wants to be held!

Visiting great-grandma

Noah, Pawpaw, Oliver and Brock

Taking a rest at the mall after dinner

Brock teaching Oliver how to high five

Such a big boy!

A Super Week

The past few weeks have been very exciting here in Indianapolis, as our city hosted Super Bowl XLVI. Don spent many a lunch hour checking out all the activities going on downtown, and we had the chance to spend a "date day" together in Super Bowl Village. We had a great time, and it was so neat to see everything our city did to prepare for such a world-class sporting event. I'm so proud to call Indy home!

The new JW Marriott (where Madonna was staying)...



IRL cars, decked out for each of the NFL teams...here are the Giants and Patriots cars...

Monument Circle got a facelift...

ESPN Studio at Pan-Am Plaza (unfortunately, no one interesting was broadcasting when we were there)...

The zipline...man, I wish it hadn't been a 4 hour wait...

A few days after the Super Bowl, Don took a tour of Lucas Oil Stadium on his lunch hour. He got some phenomenal pictures. Here is the "staging" area for the halftime show...

Inside the stadium...

He got to go into the locker rooms as well. This is the Colts' locker room...

Peyton's locker, in a corner by itself...

This is the locker room the Pats used during the Super Bowl. Don found all kinds of neat items left on the floor of the locker rooms. The best one was a letter written by a young kid to one of the Giants players. He brought it home to show me.

Visiting team's locker room...

Back in the stadium...

On the field...

It was such a neat week to spend in Indianapolis! We can't wait for another Super Bowl to take place here!

Five Long Years

On June 18, Don and I celebrated 5 glorious years of marriage (ha!) with a fun-filled weekend of togetherness. Here is our official 5th anniversary photo...we take one every year and keep them in a photo album.



On Friday, we headed downtown to Morton's Steakhouse for dinner. We've been to many steakhouses in Indy, but this was definitely my favorite! The food was phenomenal, the waiter was fantastic and the atmosphere was very cool...very old-school Vegas.

After dinner, we walked around downtown a bit and hung out on the Circle at the War Memorial. This is one of my favorite places in downtown Indy.

Unfortunately, after about 20 minutes, the skies began darkening...

We high-tailed it back to the car and made it just in time for the torrential downpour to begin. The drive home was SO bad...we could barely see the car in front of us. When we finally made it home, Hoosier was in rare form from all the thunder and lightning!

On Saturday, we headed back downtown to the Murat Theater to see the musical "Jersey Boys." It was absolutely amazing!

I can't wait to find out what we do for our 6th anniversary! This one may be hard to top!