I would have it here, but my BIL is in a wheelchair and could not get in my house since it is a bi-level. I wouldn't mind doing a part of the dinner, but with work and Nutcracker I don't have the time to do a big production.
That's always the best part.
His class at school went on Wednesday. Tonight is the full production so it will be slightly longer, too. 
The atmosphere there is always fun, but I can't stand their menu, and I can't stand their food. If we didn't have the girls, we would never return there, but they love it, so we do
You'll have a great time!!
But it'll still be nice when you go out 
If you want to get fancy you can go get stickers to add, etc...) and then they are raced in water that are in gutters (i.e. Raingutters). There is a fan that blows the air for the boats to race in. Let's just say our boats are always pretty plain, etc... Although one year DS-10's boat did come in 1st place in his level.
It used to be a different group but no one is heading up that group right now & some reorganization took place. It surprised the person that is heading our group that we were in charge too. Should be interesting to see how it pans out. Since I live roughly 30 minutes away from the church, I just signed up to help with tear-down/clean-up instead. So much easier with the kids to just stay at the church & help clean up than it is to try to keep them out of trouble beforehand attempting to set everything up. In the past I tried to bring a warm dish but with the distance we live, it didn't work well -- so I decided that would not be a good idea to try & repeat it. 
The boy's on the other hand -- well..they both have IEP's and I even went over my allotted time with the older son's conference once, etc... I have a feeling I will be scheduling parent/teacher conferences for them until they are out of High School. My 7 year old not quite as intense as the 10 year old's but still not as short & sweet as DD's always were. Hmmm....I've *never* had a teacher tell me they wished they had 25 like either of son's though. 
After the parade and fireworks, we went to Rainforest Cafe, and as normal, I didn't love my food - none of us did
Sometimes I really hate coffee pots!! 
Those pictures are great, it looks like you had a great spot We were very far, so we didn't see anything very well. When it comes to Corbin Bleu - do you think he can get a hat over all that hair 
?? I really like him - I wish Stephanie could have seen him perform Saturday. I always feel so blessed that we are able to do this to start our holiday season. Although it was drizzling most of Saturday, we still managed to walk around the lights festival exhibit areas, get some cheesecake & starbucks coffee samples, stop in the freedom museum and sign a card of support for the troops, and watch the beginning of the ice-carving. We heard a bit of the music on the stage, but left before Corbin B was on. (We did see him perform later on during the parade). We stopped in the Intercontinental Hotel to take some pix of the huge Christmas tree they have there and then went up to the Hancock Building and had the buffet lunch in the Signature room. It is on the 95th floor, and you don't have to pay to go up there if you are having a drink or a meal up there. The lunch was $18 a person, and it was excellent (carving station, salads, soups, sausage and peppers, etc). Since it was cloudy outside, I was surprised, but we actually had some good views of the city from the picture windows. We took some pictures in the lobby area of the building, including by the giant train display that they set up every year. It is worth a trip just to the lobby of the building to see that! After lunch, we walked further up Michigan Avenue and went to the Millenium Knickerbocker hotel, which is very, very festively decorated. They had Dickens Christmas carolers there, and were offering little pastries and hot apple cider since it was the lights festival weekend. They had a huge gingerbread house there, it was fun to just sit & take in the whole atmosphere. We then went across the street to the Drake Hotel, and took some pictures in front of their HUGE gorgeous tree. We headed back to the hotel (we were at the Hilton Garden Inn) to drop off some stuff, and then we headed out to Michigan Avenue with all of our closest & dearest friends (all one million of them!) to wait for the parade. The parade, as always, was great! I love when Mickey Mouse comes by and all the tiny lights on the trees begin to sparkle and the crowd goes
I'm glad you had such a great time there. I love the city!!Debbie, welcome home! How were the crowds at Disney? How was the weather?
Thanks for sharing your pictures from the Lights festival...you have some really good pix! We recorded the parade on tv and watched it last night when we got home. I was really disappointed with the coverage on channel 7. I expected so much more from the national broadcast (I liked it when it was local to channel 9). It seemed like so many commercials and then they didn't even broadcast the fireworks!
Thanks again for sharing your pictures.
Perhaps it's time to retire that one?!! 
I do believe I am finished with my children. I have to do the totals to see if they are close, but looks good.
I still need to finish cleaning the house (I didn't finish on Sunday), and I need to iron my table cloths. Thank goodness my one employee is coming home from school, and working Wednesday so I don't have to work all day - this will be very helpful!!!
We tossed around the idea of going to The Weber Grill for dinner, but we thought with 3 kids, RFC would be better. Wouldn't that of been funny if we did go and run into you there We absolutly love love love that restaurant!!!! )The problem with it, is that you have to fit the filter in it just right so it doesn't fold over - it's such a pain!!! 
. I am downtown today.. lots of work to do.. but tonight is geoff's Eagle board of review.. so i am nervous.. better to be downtown where i have to work .... LOL
