"Chocopalooza"

Dressed in her peanut butter cup t-shirt, Megan and I went to "Chocopalooza" at Adrian High School. A fundraiser that is based around chocolate...awesome! It didn't take us long before Megan found the games. First stop, to play a little golf.

Then Cookie Monster was hungry, so Megan had to feed him some cookies. AKA beanbag toss.

Here is Megan's idea of ring toss. She walked down the row and placed each ring very carefully on the cupcake. Then she went back and picked all of the rings back up. It was very sweet.

Now this is my kind of fishing! Megan, with help from Grandma, caught a Hershey Kiss! It took Megan about 10 seconds to eat her catch.

As you can see, Megan had a lot of fun and was too busy to look at the camera. Each year Chocopalooza gets bigger and better so I'm sure Megan will enjoy this for years to come. She is still talking about it and remembers that she got brown balloons at the end of it. She is cute and she loves her chocolate!

Making Applesauce

Megan was able to stop peeling her apples long enough for me to get a picture, cheesy grin and all. While we were grocery shopping I asked Megan if she wanted to help me make applesauce. Of course because it was kitchen related she said yes! She was an apple peeling machine! I couldn't get the apples on the peeler fast enough. I think she peeled a bag of apples in about 5 minutes!
Do they have professional apple peelers? Watch out Uncle Jason, at the rate Megan's skills are progressing, you might be out of a job come September!

"Wow, that really big." She liked unraveling the peels to see how long they were.

While she was peeling the apples she noticed the squirrels outside and she thought the squirrels would like some apples. I told her we could take the peels and cores out to them. She went and found a bowl in her toy room to put the apple cores in. Then we took the peels and apple cores outside and put them on a tree stump that just happened to be in a perfect positions to watch the squirrels eat. It took about 5 minutes for them to find the apples. Megan had fun watching the squirrels guard the apples from each other. Plus I think she like seeing how many windows she could watch out of, upstairs, downstairs, dining room, kitchen etc.

Back to the applesauce. Here is Megan sprinkling in some cinnamon. She did an excellent job making sure to get the cinnamon on all the apples.

Next a little liquid, some apple cider, to help the apples cook. Megan got a little too excited and spilled some cider, but I guess that is what happens when 2 year old cook. Notice Baron behind her, he did the clean up for me. Oddly, he is never to far when Megan is cooking!?!

Jungle Java

Since we are in the middle of winter, Megan was starting to miss playing outside. Our friends, the Harringtons, mentioned a fabulous place called Jungle Java. Basically it is a indoor playground on steroids and a coffee place! Yes the perfect combination. So off to Jungle Java we went to watch Megan and Alex play.

Megan wanted daddy to go in with her first. They are in the middle of the picture, Megan wouldn't stand still long enough for me to try and get a good picture.

They finally got to a spot where I could stand under them to get a picture. Megan still wouldn't look at me, but I can't really blame her.

My turn to go in with Megan. I was told to take advantage of any space high enough to stand up. Good advice! Lots of crawling, squeezing and awkward positions. The "jungle" was designed for small children and they can move very fast in some portions. However for full grown adults, you can easily fit, but you can't move quite as fast. At one point Megan was moving so fast I had to yell at her to have her stop because she easily could have gotten lost in the maze.

I made it!!!

Megan and Alex going down the slide. It took Megan forever to let go. Too many things to look at and lots of kids made her a little nervous.

I think Alex LOVED the slide! So cute. It was the perfect end to our day at Jungle Java.

"Pink the Rink"

A couple weeks ago, "Pink the Rink" was held at Adrian College. My Dad had read about other teams doing similar events to raise awareness for Breast Cancer. He liked the idea and thought that it would be perfect for Adrian College. Both hockey coaches thought the idea was great and here it is. This year raised over $3,700 for the Hickman Cancer Center. ALL of the money will stay local and everyone is working on making next years event bigger and better!
Megan not really wanted to get kissed by Bruiser, Adrian College's new mascot a 4 month old bulldog puppy. He is adorable!

Grandma Berthold out on center ice with other survivors to drop the puck.

Co-captain, #25 Mike Towns, this is the jersey I bought during the auction.

Bruiser, in his Pink the Rink shirt.

My parents hanging out behind the auction table trying their best to get people to bid higher and higher on jerseys, but that really wasn't that hard. Lots of people wanted shirts and jerseys!

The Harrington's and the Schutte's just watching the game. For those of you that don't know, Michele had breast cancer and kicked it's ass and is now a survivor as well :)

The men's hockey team doing their normal thank you to the fans at the end of the game. It just looked extra special in the pink jerseys.

My Dad on the mic, thanking everyone for coming and supporting the hockey teams and Pink the Rink. He also had to announce who had the highest bids for the pink jerseys.

#25 just waiting for me to get there to hand me my jersey. He even folded it for me, granted it was soaking wet and smelly, but it was folded!

Shawn Skelly #20, posing with my mom, she bought his jersey. It is hard to see but he is wearing a breast cancer bracelet on one wrist and a "Live Strong" bracelet on the other wrist. That made me smile, knowing that he really did appreciate the event.