I think they found my replacement...

Brian had a fantastic day today.  I got a call from our realtor this morning that someone wanted to see our house in the afternoon so I left work, rushed home, cleaned like a maniac, packed up Brian and went back to work.
Brian was so happy to be able to sit in the front seat for a car ride. Then he was ecstatic to sniff every inch of the office.  My employees all have dogs so they don't mind having a furry visitor.  He was well-behaved almost the whole time.  Right before Andrew came to pick him up, he got into the trash and ate the remainder of someone's lunch.  He was chewing on a ball of foil (that makes me teeth hurt thinking about it) when I caught him.  BAD DOG! But he spit it out as soon as I laid the smackdown.  Good dog.

So now Brian thinks he's the big dog at the office and already put his name on the door.  I guess someone has to take over when I leave.

Good Day Sunshine!

It's days like these when I wish I had more time in the morning. He is so incredibly happy when he first wakes up.


Go Cubbies!




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Adventures in Fine Dining

Recently we have started to take Tommy with us to eat at restaurants. Before we would always grab something to go and rush home but lately we decided it was time for him to try and be a big boy.
We took him to Chipotle first because that's our favorite. But that was almost a complete disaster because he decimated his diaper (while getting it all over me) and there was no changing table in the restroom. Gross.
But then we tried again at Moe's.



We kept him in his stroller and he was terrific.

We then took him to Hacienda with Gram and Pop.


He didn't want to sit still for very long. He also wanted to chew on his burp cloth. But other than that he did great.


Pounding on tables is his new favorite thing! (Look at those cheeks!)

Last night we really took a risk by taking him to Red Robin 15 minutes before he was supposed to eat again.


Turns out it's an amazing place for kids, even babies! He loved it.


He loved telling us about the menu.


He also loved chewing on a napkin. We were pulling pieces out of his mouth for a while after that. Probably not the best idea. :)

He was probably so good because he looked so darn cute in his new outfit.


Look at those little shorts!! What a cutie restauranteur!

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Mother and Son Photo Time

Tommy and I spent some time in front of the computer taking pictures.  Here are the results. 

The image gets reversed on the screen when the picture is taken if you can't tell by the backwards P. 

X-ray! This is a bit scary. 

This is a glow effect.  Also scary.  

This is the comic book effect- Andrew thinks this is the scariest of them all.  Now that I look again, he's right.  It's a bit scary.  Well not Tommy of course, just me.  

Most of the pictures I took were of Tommy reaching for the keyboard or drooling on it.  Pretty cool stuff though.  

Moving Out

What's that you say? Yes, the Thornburgs are moving!

You may remember some time back (this post), that Andrew got a promotion.  I cannot believe that was a year and half ago! So he was promoted to manage the entire state of Indiana.  Our supremely northern location has not been conducive to the new total area that he has to cover.  He has been gone a lot.  It wasn't so bad when it was just me. (Who wants to be around a pregnant broad anyway?) But when Tommy was born, it got a lot harder.  He got a lot busier (good for business) and needed to be away more (bad for family).  So we decided we needed to move.  But I needed to find a job first.  Shortly after we decided to move, a county office opened up in Delphi.  I applied for it and got the job officially last Friday.  Very exciting times for the Thornburgs!

We listed the house on the market a month ago when I applied because it is prime house hunting season.

That's what all that red door painting was about.

So this is what the house looked like when we listed it...

This is what it looks like a month later...

Jeez! Where did the house go? Leaftastic! But the flowers look amazing now.  Everything is so lush and green.
But luckily we're moving now and not this fall when we would have to deal with THIS.

We are very sad to leave this house.  We've done soooooo much work to it.  If you haven't been reading this blog very long, you need to review these posts or click on the House tag when you see it.  I was NOT kidding when I said we have done lots of work!

Want to see what our house looked like the day of inspection before we bought it?

That was in April or May! Good ol' great white north.  I won't miss that about this area!

Here are some other pictures from the day of inspection.  I'm so glad our moms were smart enough to bring cameras that day.  We weren't!

This was the living room before we moved in...

 This is after...

This is another view...

Kitchen before...

 Kitchen after...

Old game room...

New game room...

Old kitchen/dining room...

New...

Old dining room, side view...

New dining room, side view...

Just when we got the house exactly how we want it, we decide to move.  So sad.  But we are looking forward to moving closer to Purdue again.  That will be fun. Tommy will be able to attend his first football and basketball games.  I have a feeling he will love them! :)

So... anyone want to buy a house in South Bend????

The Centennial Indy 500

This year was the 100th anniversary of the Indy 500.  We went to the race as we always do, guns blazing!

The night before we went to the Keele family's house for the party and beer pong tournament.  There are sooo many traditions that we do from year to year.  A new tradition is the Who's Pregnant? game.  Katie was pregnant two years ago.  I was preggers last year and now Katie is preggo again this year.  It's almost mandatory since we have to have a sober driver.
So as I was saying, the beer pong tournament...

TJ found his shirt, thank goodness!

 Thornburg/Neal versus...

Keele/Neal did not turn out so well for our husbands.  Neal/Keele advanced to the finals leaving our sad husbands in the dust.
(But I can't make fun.  I did not get a single ball in the cup.  I was TERRIBLE.  I didn't think it was possible to get worse. But I did!)

We all got the same memo and wore the same color.  These were my new best friends, Amy and Lisa.

There were cocktails aplenty.  Matt was enjoying a funky monkey or something.

Andrew leaned against the beer pong bracket.  Whoops.

I had to include this picture.  My camera has face recognition.  When I went to take this picture, the only face that it recognized was Danica's.  Awesome.

One fun new game we played this year was called REEEEECYYYYCCCLLLE!!!!!!!!!! It started with screaming that very word when you had an empty.  Then you would throw it to Anne.

 Then Anne would Tomahawk Jam it into the recycle bin.  

 Recycling should always be that fun!

There were a few mishaps, like a broken glass getting in the way.

 But that just adds more the the recycling pile!!! RECYCLE!!!!!!!!
Just a word of caution- DO NOT get in the way of the tomahawk jam.  There's some major power behind that.  REEEECCCCYYYYCCCLLLLEEEEE!!!!

The next morning we headed to the race mega early.

 See I told you! Sober driver! Someone's gotta do it.  You might as well create life at the same time. :)

We picked up our boxed lunches along the way.  That was only half of them.

We parked in Big Nate's yard and pre-partied.

  Awww, the lovely Neal ladies.

The Purple Passion Threesome (we managed to all wear something purple the next day too.)

Travis said this picture wouldn't show that he was dancing.  What do you think? Does he look like he's dancing? Or does it look like he likes to pose in the most uncomfortable way for pictures?

We finally got to our seats.  It was HOT!! Temperature-wise it wasn't as hot as last year. But maybe last year, I was a little more prepared.  It was just sooooo hot.

Hey, it's Nealburg!

Travis's dad always has the best accessories for the race...

There were plenty of shirts there that were.... surprising, like the one above.

You can just imagine what this says.

Yeah, don't ask.  It's the Indy 500!!

I was disappointed in the lack of celebrity this year.  There were a few that we saw.  The Star Spangled Banner was the most momentous that we've seen.

 Seal, Kelly Clarkson and David Foster (?) performed the Star Spangled Banner which sounded fantastic.

 Then there was the obligatory but MUCH APPRECIATED flyover.

 Seriously, this is probably THE best part.

 I got a close up but that thing was FLYING so it was hard to center it.  Still so dang cool! There was another flyover at the end of the race.  Also very cool.  Double the pleasure this year! :)

 We saw Jerry Rice and got him to wave at us.  That was cool.

There were planes flying over the track all day.  It was crazy.  One plane came ridiculously low.  Much lower than the one above. Someone said, "Whoa that plane is like terrorist low." It really was.  LOW.  Scary! But it was just some plane taking off from the Indy Airport and the pilot was showing off.  "The people on the right side of the plane can see the greatest spectacle in racing. The people on the left side of the plane, well, you can see nothing.  Nice seat choice, dummy."

 Another obligatory shot of the ladies in attendance!

 Now on to the winner...

 We were sad that Dan Wheldon won.  JR Hildebrand was in the lead in the last lap until the fourth turn when he tried lap someone and crashed. Most heartbreaking ending to the Indy 500 we've ever seen.  Poor rookie.
Andrew drew JR in our drawing.  He could have won $100.  Instead he won $30.  Wah waahhhh.

It was one heck of a race though.  Pretty exciting the whole time.

One the way home, Travis fell asleep.

 Then we stopped, switched around seats a little and he fell asleep again.  Nice.

The 2011 Indy 500 was a great success! We left Tommy overnight for the first time and he did great.  Grandma sent pictures.  This was the first one she sent in the morning.

Just look at that face!
The second one was this one.

I knew I didn't have to worry if he was having THAT much fun! Jeez! That kid is so happy! But we were so glad to see him again.  I missed him so much.