Easter x 2

The girls are lucky to be able to celebrate Easter twice each year (except when the Orthodox Easter falls on Christian Easter). This year we celebrated twice. Easter was fun, we had gotten back late Sunday from our trip to Springfield, but the Easter bunny still managed to leave the girls Easter Baskets hidden for them to find. We made a yummy dinner and dyed eggs outside since it was so nice outside.
Greek Easter weekend we went to grandma's from Saturday until Monday. Daddy went to New York for his Gala fundraiser so he left on Sunday. The girls and I joined our greek side of the family at a nice restaurant in Wilmette. In the morning, the girls woke up to Easter bunny prints and lots of eggs that were hidden and their baskets. We had a nice weekend visiting in the city too. Saturday night the girls had a movie night with daddy, grandma and Papo while mommy went out with her best friends from high school. Sunday was Easter then Monday grandma stayed home to hang out with us. We took the girls out for breakfast then to the family cafe to play, then shopping at a new fresh market near my moms then back home. It was a fun Easter weekend.

Springfield trip

This weekend we took a train trip to Springfield, IL. There was a half marathon that I wanted to race in so we thought we'd make a weekend out of it. The girls had a blast and loved taking the train. It was so fun just walking out of our front door with a few bags and our double BOB and going somewhere new. The town is home of Abe Lincoln so there was a ton of historical things to see, plus being the state capitol it was neat to visit.

We took an early train down on Friday morning and arrived at the hotel around 1pm. We had a quick lunch then walked around a bit. We walked over to the half marathon expo to pick up my race packet then after some more exploring went to dinner then out for ice cream. We were pretty wiped out but managed some pool time then all headed to bed.

Saturday we woke up around 5am. I was all set for the race and Corey got the girls set up in the stroller all set with their cow bells to cheer me on. They saw me off at the start line, then again at around mile 5 then around mile 10 then at the finish line. It was a beautiful course, but the second half was very hilly, I still made good time, finishing in at 1:56 (11 mins faster than my first half last fall). I was so glad to see the finish line, we hung out a bit, took a pic with the Abe Lincoln walking around then headed back to the hotel. At this point we decided to stay another night since we still wanted to go back and see some of the sights I ran past and the museum. We had lunch at the Alamo for the post race party then while the girls napped in the stroller walked to Lincoln Park to see Lincoln's tomb and let the kiddos play at the playground. We walked back (Corey and I were pretty tired by now, must have walked a least 5 miles) we went to the Illinois State Museums which was excellent, all about Lincoln, a great kids play area and a neat movie. We had a nice pizza dinner, one last dip in the pool then to bed. We took an early train home in time for Easter Sunday!






















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Messiah - ballet recital

Mia did an amazing job in her first ballet recital. The entire performance was about 1.5 hours long. It was called "The Messiah" all about the Easter story Mias class did a dance to a song called "little lamb". She did great. Dad, Annie, mom, grandma, papo and great aunt Stacy came to see her. Then we all went to dinner to celebrate our little ballerina. No stage fright at all - she is a natural!












Mia is second from the left.










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