Embers Glowing to Win, Place, and Show!

That's right it's been a year since the "Clicker to Win" post. I know you all have every post memorized so I won't even get into what that means... :) Yes, we made another trip out to Arlington Park Racetrack. And again a mistaken bet led to a majority of our winnings... but more on that later. For now we'll start with last weeks visit with Uncle Jim and a night of being fancy and hanging out at the Four Seasons. And big shocker, our little ham was a huge hit with everyone he met, including the staff of the hotel...

Back up in Uncle Jim's hotel room Levi and Jenny tested out his bed...

Snuggly!


Uncle Jim, the Ham, and Lovely Wife-Lady

So.... the horse races. Our second annual celebration of our friend Lindsey's birthday at Arlington Park Racetrack. Going into this year's betting, everyone wanted to follow my strategy (because of how well we did last year), however the one race I was for sure on... ended up being a disaster. My prize horse Chicalelee was a big sleeper with a great chance to win... he took fourth. Long story short, that means no money for any of the bets we made. But that's not the crazy part, in a rush to get my bet in before the "books" closed I bet on the wrong horse to win, place and show (aka take 1st, 1st/2nd, or 1st/2nd/3rd). And guess what, that's the horse that won! Embers Glowing! Simply unbelieveable. I felt terrible for "losing" everyone's money, but I iced the cake with my winning... hilarious! And oh yeah, we dressed up for a touch of sass, but mostly fun!

Now as a quick side note, we had a wonderful weekend with the Perricone's and got to celebrate "little" John Michael's first birthday, but our camera died at the racetrack, so no pictures. We'll try to get some from the Perricones and post any good ones later this year.



So, MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL! PACKERS-BEARS! NFC NORTH RIVALRY! CLASSIC!... disappointing. But let's go through the Jones Boys excitement anyways...



"Yay, Daddy did you see that awesome pass to Jennings across the back of the end zone, I called that! chalk up another 7.7 points for our fantasy team!"



"This second quarter is boring..."

"Where's the Packers offense..."

"Seriously, another penalty! Based on my knowledge that's the most penalties by a Packers team in a game in over 50 years!"

After a tough loss, Levi washed away the memories of the game with a quality light read... "If You Give a Moose a Muffin."

~ Thanks Auntie ClownFace and Uncle DoodieMouth ~

Good night my friends and family. Starting next week I'm going to try to update the blog with Levi's vocabulary-to-date (thanks Glissmeyers for the idea). But there was one incident I wanted to mention before I forgot. First off, big shocker, Levi can say no... secondly, we were in Target picking out some quality nesting items, when we stopped this awesome BigFoot toy (http://www.fisher-price.com/fp.aspx?st=7086&e=bigfootlanding) in a plastic display case with a convenient "Try Me" button. The thing was awesome, it pounded on the case, rolled around, yelled, growled, and was quite impressive. After about 30 seconds of blank staring at it, Levi let out his clearest "NO!" to date and proceeded to cry. We quickly moved on, picked him up to comfort him and then later had a good laugh about it. It was good stuff, classic guy parenting on my part. Well, that's all folks. Have a great rest of the week, happy birthday again to Lindsey and John Micheal, and God bless!

"For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." ~ Ephesians 2:10