Saturday, August 11, 2012

Catching Up on July

A few miscellaneous pics at first, and then mostly our 'big' roadtrip to Chicago for work, family, and then play together...us two troopers.


Anyone ever seen a cat on a leash before?  :)  Only us two troopers!
To see the 'cat walking' in motion, click here for a video: Walking Cat Link


BIG GIRL BED TIME!!!
(No, don't have the official sheets yet, but she doesn't care!)


Captain and Julia were in town "living" with us for several days.  EJ and Captain had a great time together - it blessed Julia and me both to watch them 'play' together.
It's hard to tell, but these two spent close to 2 hrs at a park in nearly 100 degree weather, playing in the dirt.  There is dirt all over EJ's face - again, hard to tell in this picture, but us girls were laughing when they got home.

Captain was 'playing dead' for EJ to draw a chalkline around him.  Creative idea, that only a guy would come up with.

OUR TRIP TO CHICAGO

"RRRaaaarrrr," says the cutest little dinosaur ever.

Again, my intense kiddo with intense kisses...including her FEET this time!

More kisses for Grandma...


Mommy's Cousin's Wedding Night




Hang out time after the wedding, before the reception.







Two cousins keeping busy during the reception...the other little girl is just 6 months younger.

This is actually a short meltdown in the middle of the cocktail hour.
Big cousin taking care of a little cousin :)



Fun with Grandpa as he came to our table to visit....


Moments later, STILL playing with Grandpa's face.




Count the spoons in this little bowl!  :)



Mmmm...this one tastes the best!


My BEAUTIFUL cousin, my aunt and my cousin - the handsome groom!

Us 4 siblings, plus significant others, plus our 2 kids!

So, these precious, adorable girls are all within 6 months of one another!  EJ's  the oldest, followed next my cousin's little girl in the middle (just a month (I think) younger) and then my brother's girl who is roughly 6 months younger than EJ.  What a fun couch.  :)


Me and my sibs...NOT in age order, but if you want to think I'm the 2nd youngest (from left to right), I'd let you.  :)

EJ and I giving giggly hugs....
until...

EJ's TAKE DOWN!
Oh no!
Oh, good!  They're all OK!
And now giggling!

Me and my cousin's pretty wife and our cute lil' daughters.

...and, there goes my touchy-feely, no-personal-space girl giving kisses again!

Peek-a-boo fun!!



OUR MINI VACATION
We literally didn't even get to 'vacation' for 24 hours, but we made the best of it and it was fun to have some just 'us' time.  After the wedding and work weekend in Chicago, we headed north to Lake Geneva, WI and spent time at the Grand Geneva Resort where this mommy recently booked some business and wanted to check out what the resort was all about...while also having some mommy-daughter time.


Stopped for a quick lunch at TACO BELL!  Look at THOSE awesome 1990's shades!!
(Doesn't she just look like such a BIG girl, too?)



A pretty excited, cool 1990's chick with the T Bell logo in the background.  I love it!

Arrived at the resort and into our room...and...

Within 20 minutes of us arriving, the sweet sales staff surprised us with the PERFECT room amenity of YUMMY cheese, crackers, fruit, BIG cookies and milk!  What kid wouldn't love all of that?  Let's continue on and see what EJ wanted to eat first....
COOKIES!




Self portrait of us girls.  :)
The left-side view out of our resort room window

The view to the right...
The awesome sales people ALSO let us go "play" at the giant waterpark they have!  I enlarged this picture so you can see just a portion of what the area was like...if you look closely and see the yellow slide up at the top, there is a green slide right next to it that EJ and I went down together in a shared innertube!  She's SUCH the little risk-taker and we both loved it!






After the waterpark fun...waiting on the trolley to come back and pick us up....