Picnic in Libertyville

Yesterday, Reese and I went to see Jessie at her new house in Libertyville.  It's so nice to have her closer, so we can see them more often!  We took some lunch to Cook Park in downtown Libertyville.  They had food booths set up and a live band playing for a couple of hours!  It was soooo much fun!  There were so many families and little kids running around.  They even had a fire truck for kids to walk through (Reese would NOT go in!)  I hope we can make it back at least once before this Summer is over!  

We had such a nice day - it was beautiful out!  I'm not ready for Summer to end!

P.S. For my family in Neenah (if you are reading this) I will have pics from Grandma & Grandpa's Birthday Party up by the end of this weekend!  I have to filter through all 745 of them!

"Polar Vortex"

This crazy cold weather has Reesie and I inside with Buddy Bear trying to come up with some new and fun things to keep our attention all day.  The last couple of days my hands have been smelling like play-doh and crayons and I am totally fine with that - it makes me a little nostalgic and very happy!  We are back to work tomorrow but I wanted to post a few (ok - 15) pictures of how we entertained ourselves the last two days!  There was a lot of playing with Mama's bracelets, dancing around the house, coloring, play-doh creations, movies, singing and staying in our PJ's for way longer than we should have - just because we could!

I can't stand this one - I LOVE IT!

Reesie has her first gymnastics class tomorrow and we are sooooo excited!!  I hope she likes it!  I plan to take lots and lots of pictures :)

Hope you are all staying warm with this crazy cold weather!  Talk about Cabin Fever!

Be back later this week with gymnastics pics!

Birthday Weekend Festivities

This past weekend was so fun and so busy!  I have to start with Thursday when Reese and I went to the Kohl Children's Museum with Erika, Isabella & Baby Joey!  It was a blast!  I think the girls favorite part was definitely playing in the pretend grocery store area!  We had to go back for round 2!

Isn't this little man just handsome!  I could kiss his cheeks all day long...

 Friday night we celebrated Shaun & Ryan's Birthdays at the Gorsline's - we had pizza and brownies - I didn't get any pics - shame on me :)

Saturday brought Katie's Baby Shower for Miss Delaney Madison!  Her Mom threw the shower and I can't even begin to describe how beautiful everything was!  Every little detail was thought of and it was all just adorable!  Also - Katie makes just about the cutuest pregnant person I have ever seen!  I just loved her little belly sash!  We were so happy that Sarah was able to be there and all 4 of us roomies from college could reunite!

After the shower, Sarah & the Matteucci's came back to celebrate Shaun's birthday with us with some spaghetti & Texas cake!  Reese looked like this...

...and I got to cuddle and love on this little man some more!

Happy Birthday to you... (Bella helped blow out the candles!)

Then Sunday night my parents took us out to dinner in Lake Genava!  I would say Shaun was a lucky guy this weekend!  We celebrated more than a couple of times!

 This week I have started working on Reese's Christmas stocking.  It is crewel - the same way my Mom made all of our stockings!  It will be time consuming but I am really excited for the end product!  Maybe I can even get a start on mine & Shaun's...we will see!

Cuddles with friends

Last week Joelle came over with the girls and Ryder to hang out with us!  It's so fun to see the girls be able to play with the same things together!  Ryder does his best to tolerate all of the girls - he is slightly outnumbered!  I love that Joelle and I get to raise our babies together - it is the sweetest thing!  Enjoy the pics!