Last week we went and bought a bunch of craft supplies to start making our cards of encouragement!! We are making cards for the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Basically we hand make cards to encourage the patients to keep up the good work. These patients (both children & adults) spend day after day in physical therapy due to head injury, spinal cord injury, stroke, orthopedic surgery, or loss of limb. It’s a good feeling to know that we can brighten their day by making them a card. Alyssa is so excited about it! As soon as she gets home and finishes her homework, she works hard until bedtime making the cards. (I will get some pictures of them when we are finished)

Friday night we went out to dinner and a movie with Chris and Sarah. We saw Ironman. Dan’s choice! We really enjoyed it. It was opening night so the whole theatre was packed.

Saturday morning we went to the gym and then headed out to Chris’s house to help him with yard work. He has big plans this summer to build a new driveway and shop. So, we spent the afternoon cutting down trees and then burning them. We’re still pretty sore and just now drying off, thanks to the rain all afternoon.

Sunday we got up and went to Dan’s Dad’s house; washed the truck and dialed in the hot tub. He wasn’t around so we decided to meet Aaron and Nicole at Red Robin for lunch. Then we headed over to Kevin’s house to see the progress of his car. I got my first sunburn of the year. Wasn’t expecting that!! Then we finished our weekend with dinner, cuddles and Smallville (the usual!!).