Another Vettix event!
Cirque du Soleil — Crystal
Category Archives: Tom
Us as AI superheroes
We were BIG 4x winners!
Holy crap! We spent $20 on raffle tickets at the Warren Township High School play Friday night (which was amazing by the way!)…and got a text yesterday that we won and could pick up our prize today. They didn’t tell us what it was, so we tried to remember what we’d entered for. Imagine our surprise when Tom walked out with TWO huge baskets and said we’d actually won FOUR things!
✔️Richardson Adventure Farm – 2 admissions
✔️Nothing Bundt Cakes – bundlets for a year, tumbler, corkscrew, journal
✔️Lake Geneva Cruise Line – 2 tickets
✔️Local eats – $60 in local gift cards (Potbelly, Steak & Shake, Coldstone)
I think we’ve used up all our luck for the year!!
Titanic!
We went to a Titanic exhibit today! It was neat to see reproductions of things (dinnerware, rooms, grand stairwell, etc.) as well as a few actual pieces. It was a little crowded so I didn’t take many pictures.
Different menus for different classes:
And we got to walk along the first class promenade:
At the beginning we all got a card detailing the life of a passenger. You find out at the end of the exhibit if your passengers survived—and all four of us did (which I thought was crazy)!
Then it was lunch at The Cheesecake Factory and then home.
Olive is a cuddler for sure
They’re fun to play with
A friend at the Laugh Factory
We found out that a friend of ours (TJ Wharry) was going to be performing at the Laugh Factory in Chicago, so we checked Vettix and they had free tickets so we went! ? We sat with his wife Janelle and then all went out to dinner after. (We met them way back when we lived in Troy and have kept in Facebook contact over the years!)
A sushi jazz night!
Pre-concert dinner at Kura Revolving Sushi Bar! I’ve always wanted to do one of these and we definitely had fun! Our drinks were even delivered via robot!
Amazing seats (third row!) for Branford Marsalis at North Shore Center for Performing Arts. Thank you Vettix!
Squeeee! I have a Dream Box!
I wanted a Dream Box back when we were redoing the office…but they are super expensive (and then we figured out it wasn’t what I needed for my business).
Fast forward to Tom finding a used Dream Box on Facebook marketplace and the price was right so I grabbed it! It was 1.5 hours away so it was a little bit of work but she’s home and beautiful in the basement bedroom.
Now to fill it with all my Christmas stuff, crafts, art supplies, Cricut accessories…
Nap time!
Colin Mochrie!!
We loved Whose Line is it Anyway? so when we had a chance to see Colin locally, we jumped at it—and it was indeed hilarious!
Besties as Big Mouth characters
We love the show Big Mouth so when I saw this personalized artwork on Etsy I had to get it. So we all now have a framed copy.
We’re Disney-fied!
Sometimes she picks him.
Tom picked up our box o’ deer today.
We were somewhat disappointed that we didn’t get any steaks—we must have read the form wrong. But we have lots of ground and the other things we asked for like jerky and sausages.
Olive is a long dog
Football carry!
Olive didn’t mind this at all.
Working with dad is RUFF.
Anna crocheted a hat…
Betcha didn’t think it would be for the dogs!
Milwalky Trace
Date lunch! I got a lobster roll and Tom got a brisket and short rib burger and both were freaking amazing. And definitely get the slaw. Highly recommend!
The bad thing about high ceilings.
We need a ladder to change the clock.
Thanksgiving 2023 is over…
Thanksgiving Day 2023
Friends of ours—Scott and Wendy—also joined us this year as she was visiting from Seattle and they didn’t have other plans! She loves Thanksgiving and cooking so she brought most of the sides to go with Tom’s smoked turkey and smoked ham!
Thanksgiving tip? Gravy in an insulated pitcher! Pourable plus it stays warm!
The evening was spent watching football, playing cards, puzzling, and visiting!
Pre-Thanksgiving 2023
Everyone was coming for Thanksgiving again this year! So Day 1 dinner prep—smoked ribs—started early!
Deer camp day 3: driving
There were no more deer to be had, but Owen had another first—Tom let him drive his truck on the back roads to camp!
Deer camp day 2: success!
Owen got his first deer! In one perfect shot! Needless to say Tom was a proud papa.
Owen got to drive the 4-wheeler (and deer) back to camp!
And while he didn’t take a bite of the raw heart (apparently a first-deer tradition?!) they did eat it cooked with onions with dinner!
First day of deer camp at Ozzy’s Acres
My cousins Kevin and Greg invited Tom and Owen to go deer hunting. Tom hadn’t been hunting since we met (!) and he was very eager to go and take Owen for his first time. Ammunition for his old gun was exorbitantly expensive so he “had” to buy a new gun and everything!
Two of my loves.
They’re so cute when they sleep
The boys went to the range
Tom bought a new rifle to take deer hunting so they went to the range to test it out.
