Well, we have done a lot in the past few weeks! Beth turned 30, Ella turned 5 and started kindergarten! We enjoyed ourselves at Dan and Sarah's wedding this past weekend as well! They are off to Aruba and we are jealous! We loved our honeymoon and would do it all over again!
Labor Day Weekend will bring us to St. Louis to visit the family and head to a Cardinals game! Hopefully they will start playing better ball leading up to our game! Check back soon for more updates!
It’s been a busy few weeks! Since the Cardinals weekend, we have helped John and Jill move, attended Nathan’s 6th Birthday, worked my last week at Americaneagle.com and went to Jake’s 1st Birthday Party! We’ve posted a ton of new photos and videos on our Flickr account!
Hopefully, everyone reading this caught that I worked my last week at Americaneagle.com. I recently received an offer from Digitas that I couldn’t pass up! I start on Monday, August 9th and it’s going to be a busy first week! The office is on Wacker and Michigan in Chicago. I’ll be taking the train in every day and can’t wait to join the team! I would just like to say thanks again to everyone at Americaneagle.com that I worked with! It was a pleasure working with everyone over the past 4 years!
One last thing, we had a great day today celebrating Jake’s 1st Birthday! It was fun hanging out with family and friends! We have some really good photos on John’s camera (let’s just hope he gets them to me in a timely fashion)! Our favorite moment came when Jake and Connor were on the play mats together. Jake took Connor down (in a playful way) and then gave him kiss! Connor proceeded to kick him and knock him over. It was pretty cute to see them interact with each other! They are going to pick on each other all the time. I caught most of it on film so I’ve included that here as well.
Check back soon for more updates! We have a busy few weeks coming up!
Ok, so the past two weeks have flown by and now I’m back into the office bright and early tomorrow. The past two weeks have been amazing and have let us really come together as a family with our new little bundle of joy! We got to do a lot of cool stuff as a family the past two weeks and Connor fits right in! Be sure to check out all the photos and videos @Flickr!
This past weekend we had Grandpa Lee and Grandma Sue over to celebrate Christmas on Friday night. The girls got some really cool gifts that included an Air Hockey Table! It was a great night to celebrate the holidays. Check out the photos here!
On Saturday, we had a few visitors in the morning, dance class and the girls took off with Aunt Lori and Grandma Debbie to see Disney on Ice! The girls had a great time and even called to ask for to borrow my Credit Card… ha ha! The snow cones were $15 bucks! Check out the photos from Saturday here!
Today, we went out to lunch with John, Jill, Jake and Grandpa Mark. Ella is with her dad today for a quick visit and will be back tomorrow morning. Now, I think it’s off to the store to get some last minute stuff for this week and then we will watch the Grammys!
You should notice some new enhancements to the site with the sidebar. I’ve added a widget that pulls in the most recent 15 photos from flickr! It’s a nice little touch to the site and I’m always looking for more ideas so let me know! Also, added Tag You’re It to the sidebar so that you can filter all the posts by ones you have been tagged in! Have fun finding all the posts and reliving the memories that we have shared together since the blog started!
We took our family pictures on Monday and I wanted to post a few here while I had a minute. It’s been a busy week to say the least at work! This weekend should be a lot of fun. We have the AE Christmas Party tomorrow night and the Bears play the Packers on Sunday. I’m not sure if I should be really excited about the game because we’ve been playing so poorly but it’s always a big game against the Pack!
I just wanted to take a few minutes and post some items that haven’t made it up on the site yet. Here are some photos from the Daughtry Concert as well as when Ben and Jessy were in town! The concert was great and I have some videos you might want to check out if you are a fan of Daughtry. We would like to see him again but on his Fall Tour he won’t be coming to Chicago. I’ve heard this is the second time he has done that.
Anywho, there is also a cute video of Kiley playing outside and a video of Brian (cousin) putting his face in a cake. I paid him 5 bucks to do it and it was so worth it! We had a great time hanging out with Ben and Jessy along with a tons of Family last weekend. Wish they lived back in IL but they should be moving back soon!
As for today, I’m going to be spending some time working this morning to make sure a project I’ve been working on goes live on Thursday! It’s shaping up nicely. Beth took the girls to her Kid’s Therapy Baseball Game this morning and then they are off to a slew of errands. Hopefully, Beth doesn’t wear herself out too much today as tonight is going to be amazing.
I’m going to straighten up the house a bit and then we will be taking Ella to her first Chicago Bears Game for her Birthday! I can’t wait to go tonight. We were able to get Field Passes for the game and I’m SUPER EXCITED for that! Grandpa Lee will be joining us and I can’t wait! I think I’ll say it one more time – I CAN’T WAIT!!!
One last item before I go, while I was working yesterday a friend let me know on a little secret – the Cardinals are 7 games up on the Cubbies! HA HA HA HA. I haven’t had the chance to follow lately and I definitely know why the Cubby fans have been quite lately. GO CARDINALS!
