Welcome to Dane Comeau

 Dane Comeau was born May 6/2013 at 10:12pm. He was 8 lbs 14 oz and 20 inches long! Finally he was here after a long, long wait for his arrival.

 He is the cutest little chubby cheeked baby! I got to meet him the next day at the hospital. He is just adorable. I think he looks so much like Cooper. Naturally I have no pictures of me holding him! Hopefully Ashley has one for me.

 I went in first thing Monday morning when the hospital told Ashley they could take her early (which was still late) to induce her. I kept the boys while Ashley & Benjy spent the day at the hospital. We built a fort, watched movies, did puzzles, colored, read books, played in the sandbox, went to McDonalds, got groceries, played with toys, napped, ate, bathed, got ready for bed and still no baby! Finally later that night Dane came into the world. The next morning the boys and I went to the hospital to meet the baby. We spent the rest of the day doing the same stuff until Ashley got checked out late that night. I drove home at about 11pm so I could go to work the next day. I came back in on Friday and went with Ashley to the pediatrician appointment.

 Yeah!! Dane was gaining weight back again. We picked up a few things then headed back to their house. I did some cooking for them and headed back home again later that evening.

 Saturday Mendis and I came in to go shopping and eat out for mother's day and Mendis got to see the baby too.

 Cooper has his turn to hold him. Rees was at Grandpa & Grandma Comeau's so he wasn't there for a picture.

 The next week Ashley came out after work on Thursday and I took the night shift with Dane for her. I have to say it was pretty tiring since he didn't sleep great until after two but it was really so much fun. I was happy to burp him and rock him and try to comfort him back to sleep. I am sure that is because I knew he was going back to his house the next day!!

Of course he slept like a rock the whole morning. All too soon it was time for them to return home and I settled in for a much needed nap. Three grandsons....where is the time flying off too?

Still the Sister's Retreat!!

I want to include too many pictures to do one big post so suffer along with me for one more! Our last day was a big one. We headed away from the beach and on over to Universal Studios mostly to check out Harry Potter's Wizarding World. We got busy chatting and stuff and before we knew it we blew by the place by about 20 miles. Ooppppsss. So we got headed in the right direction and finally got there a little later than planned. We weren't terribly concerned until we found out the park closed at 7pm not 10pm like we thought!! This could have been a disaster. But since none of us are roller coaster fans crisis averted. We really didn't need any more time.

 

 Finally we got clear to the back of the park and Harry Potter! It was so fun to see it and it was just like I imagined. I knew it wasn't a huge section so I wasn't disappointed to see how tiny it really was. I enjoyed every part of it.

 We headed straight to the 3 broomsticks for lunch since we were pretty hungry and had been holding out to eat there! We braved the crowds and in we went.

 We got a lovely feast with every specialty drink there was. Either we were a little parched or my excuse is I wanted to try everything. The pumpkin fizz might have been my favorite!

 And we are done here.

 On to Hogwarts Castle! 

The highlight. Thank goodness Beth made it in! We thoroughly enjoyed going through the line because that's where all the cool stuff was to see. Too much to take pictures of unfortunately.

 Loved the pictures that were exactly like the movie.

 Dumbledoor's Room

 The Hall that snowed on us!! That was crazy cool. The ride itself was incredible. It is like a motion simulator combined with the soaring over California technology. It was amazing but it made Nadine and Beth queasy so we only did it once. Very cool!

 Loved the candy shop where I shopped forever for the grandsons! Too many choices.

 The Harry Potter land was so fun. We really enjoyed our time there but finished it with lots of time to spare so we checked out the other areas too.

Jurassic Park was pretty exciting.

Loved Dr Seuss land. Super fun.

We left with a little time left over actually after much shopping and looking around. We just had a good time checking out the shops and stuff. It kept raining on us so we decided we had enough and it was time to go have dinner. Nadine took us to a great pizza place and then we decided to wrap things up with a great dessert. Most of us had never been to the Melting Pot so off we went for some chocolate fondue. We felt a little cheated after being too full to have it the night before.

 They put us in a separate room in the back because of the strong seafood smell which saved my life and their customers since we got a little loud. We really had fun and laughed until we were sick. They were so good to us but definitely deserved a big tip for putting up with us all night. We had such a great night and knew all too soon it was coming to an end.

 We laughed and ate and laughed some more until it was time to get us to our hotel. We said our good byes and promised not to wait another 30 years to get together alone again! The next day we all went our separate ways and started swapping pictures and planning for a product  that was we hoped was about to change our lives. Oh well no hottie but a super fun weekend!!

Sister's Retreat cont....

 Shocking to know we slept in Saturday! We stayed up late laughing and it's probably a miracle we went to bed at all. So the next day we got up at the crack of noon. With our sunburns blooming and killing us we sadly cancelled our massages than had a whole afternoon to fill. As tempting as it was to go back down to the beach we opted for a drive up the coast to see the sights. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and didn't even get lost once. We told funny stories and caught up some more on our goings on.

The old taking a picture of taking a picture trick.

 We saw this pirate theme beach house that I just had to have a picture of. Someone went to alot of work to get this so over the top!

We were deeply saddened that this bakery was closed since it must have been at least an hour since we had eaten anything yummy.

 So Carolyn told us a hilarious story of a bike rack that inspired this picture. You really had to be there but we laughed about it the whole weekend. This looks like it is probably our best side anyway.

It was just beautiful up and down the coast. We drove through the infamous Daytona Beach and just enjoyed the cloudy weather and pretty views of the ocean.

Sometime during the day I told the sistas about my fabulous idea of a heated mouse for the computer. I thought of it years ago and had just never done anything with it. One thing led to another and after a few phone calls and lots of discussion we decided to call it the "Hottie" and form a business together. We were amazed at how many talents we all had between us and our families. It was quite exciting. We discussed and discussed the whole rest of the weekend an were ready to go. We even had an appointment with a patent lawyer when it was sadly discovered there is already a heated mouse on the market!!! Man we were bummed. We were so excited to do this and I have to admit part of the excitement was working together on this. So with the end of the "Hottie" came the beginning of an idea to start a blog together. We can all cook and again we have various areas of expertise that are amazing. So I am working on Davygirls.com as we speak. I hope to have it up and going soon so we can get a cookbook going too!!

That night we treated ourselves to a fabulous fondue night. We spent the whole evening laughing and of course planning for the hottie. We were so full by the end of the night we couldn't even do the chocolate fondue. Now that's full! Another super fun day.

Sister's Retreat!

This all started when Nadine called me at work one day and asked if I was going to be in Florida anytime this spring. She was looking for a sister's retreat to take her mind of the crap of everyday life. Of course I was up for it and started texting the girls!! It took a couple of weeks of working out details and prayers that it would all work out but we finally got it all nailed down and booked. We were all so excited for April 18-22. So here is Day 1 which was our travel day and Day 2:

 After a travel day from heck we all finally met up at the Orlando airport. Beth was about 8 hours late but about $400 richer for it. Carolyn was 2 hours late and I was about an hour late! As you can see I spent lots of time in Minneapolis "de-icing". Who knew in April this would be going on??

 We knew Carolyn was turning 50 the first day so we made our plans accordingly. Nadine met us all at the airport at about midnight with a walker that was decorated to the hilt. There was a lovely sash and crown to go with it!!

 We got a little carried away since we were all punchy at this point and decorated up Snow White who was lounging at the airport. We loaded up and drove out to the beach which was a couple of hours out. Nadine's husband's boss has a condo that they let us use for the whole weekend for just the nominal cleaning fee.

The fabulous condo!

 This was the scene that day as we hit the beach. Nadine went to the store while we sunscreened up (or so we thought) and headed down. She was only gone a little more than an hour but it seemed like half the day so we added time each time we discussed it. I think we were up to ten hours we waited for her by the end of the trip!!

 So we entertained ourselves while we waited with the birthday sash. What we didn't know was that we are sunblock stupid or something and we were getting super burnt on various parts of our bodies. What a disaster that was. By the next morning we were so burned we decided to cancel our massages. What a bummer. Next time we will know better.

 This proves it! Our theme was let's eat pastries and lots of them.

That night we went out to the Garlic for dinner for Carolyn's birthday. It smelled heavenly. The food was pretty good too! It was wonderful.

The specials on a pasta noodle

The birthday gal