Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Playdate at the park

The kids were excited to see their friends Hailey and Ashleigh at the park last week. It was a beautiful day so we had to take advantage of being able to play outside and have a picnic lunch! The 3 older kids were being silly but having lots of fun swinging:) Looking forward to another playdate soon!!

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Lincoln Park Zoo

2 weeks ago we met Auntie Jill, Uncle Craig, Reid and Jay in Chicago to go to the Lincoln Park Zoo. It was last minute and we were so happy that it worked out that we could meet them and then go out for lunch before they headed back home. Here are the 4 cousins at the zoo entrance! Trying to figure out what animals they wanted to see and where to go.
Playing "telephone" :)

Colin loved climbing thru the play area!

Checking out the reptiles!

The kids wanted to wear their Cubs jerseys since we were going to the city. Cute pic...Colin was having a hard time keeping his eyes open with the sun:)

Daddy & closed eyed Colin:)

Mommy & Kaitlyn

Up and close with the fish!



Kaitlyn's one request was she wanted to see the Zebras!

We had a great day! We look forward to see you guys next weekend again!!


Saturday, September 10, 2011

Misc. Pics

We have been so busy lately that blogging took to the back burner:) So I am back with lots of catch up pictures:) K & C LOVE being outside...what kids dont enjoy it?!?! Here is Colin waiting for a pitch from daddy so he can hit a home run!Kaitlyn and Daddy playing catch! Most of you know what happened to my nephew Zachary. He broke his femur and is in a body cast:( SO sad!!! Here I am visiting with Q & Z while the kids were at school. Zachary was showing off his full body cast:)
I took Quintin home with me so Kel could get a break. Quintin was so excited to surprise K & C when they got off the bus!!



Lego Mania!!

Speaking of Lego Mania.....we have a slight obsession with legos in our house:) Colin builds things and then it becomes a lego shrine. Nobody can touch it! He works so hard and plays for house but if something gets broken he gets very sad! He definitely takes after his cousins Reid and Jay and their love for legos! Wish they lived closer so they could play legos:)

We visited Cam at work one day and brought him lunch! We ran to get some bottle water and were in the hall when the bell rang.....oh boy was it funny to see the kids reaction. They have never been in the halls before during school when the bell rang and the mass loads of kids were swarming the halls. They were amazed by all of the big kids!!!

Our neighbors dog Rudy came for a doggie playdate. We are working on Kaitlyns MAJOR fear of dogs. Colin is a little afraid but not like Kaitlyn. They did AWESOME Playing with Rudy and cant wait for him to come back again:)

Helping mommy make spinach turkey meatloaf...YUM!!

They loved snapping the stems off of the spinach leaves...mommys least fav part so I loved having helpers!

The kids are having so much fun at school. They love coming home and practicing reading and their flashcards. Cam recently put their high frequency words (that they need to know by the end of Kindergarten) on his ipad so they could practice. It makes learning a little more fun:)

The kids read their books one last time every morning before school. They have fun reading to Katie and Maddie before they get on the bus since they are with us every morning:)

Kaitlyn had a rough week last week at school with a girl in her class making fun of her surgery scars:( She was such a trooper and asked to wear her Happiest Girl In The World shirt to school the next day to show she wasnt going to let that girl bring her down! We are so proud of our sweet beautiful girl!!

I gave Kaitlyn a pink and white polka dot mani/pedi!

I had a hungry bunch of 7 last weekend that needed lunch:)

Grandma needed our Yukon to move stuff last week for her charity event she was doing. So we switched cars for the week. It was a sunny beautiful week so perfect weather for a convertible!!


Friday, September 9, 2011

Tyler & Connors Birthday Party

We had so much fun celebrating Connors 2nd and Tylers 4th birthday! It was a pirate theme:) Here are all of the girls having dinner with Connor! Colin was having dinner with the other birthday boy Tyler!
Kaitlyn and her friend Bella!

The kids had a blast running around the yard looking for all of the hidden gold coins. They received a prize when they brought back their coins!

What party would be complete without a pinata?!?! Lots of candy was collected:)

Enjoying yummy cupcakes with their friend Ella:) Happy Birthday Tyler & Connor!! We were so happy to be able to celebrate with you!