FFF: Coming to you live from Chicago

Yesterday Greg's Aunt Rita came into town and took us to the field museum. It was loads of fun. Toby really likes exploring museums, which I am really thankful for. We had a great time seeing the dinosaurs and exploring the what makes an animal exhibit. Today it's just me with the kids. We'll either be going to the Aquarium or the Zoo. If you hang out to the end the of very short slide show you'll be rewarded with my FFF (yes I did stick to topic). If you want to see more FFF go to www.kissthefrog4me.blogspot.com

Make a Smilebox photobook

Well after our tire fiasco (you can read about it last post) we got here just intime to meet our frinds at Navy Pier. We had a fantastic day with Amy, Matt, Brayden, and Malayna...THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH for taking the time to come hang out with us. The rain held off which was very nice and it certainly wasn't hot...also a plus. We spent our time eating, taking in a pirate show, and watching the kids run and play while trying to make it to the end of the pier. But let me tell you, whoever designed the pier did not have children in mind since most of the pier just has a simple chain to "protect" you from falling in. It made this normally laid back Mama very worried. Here's a photo book of our day enjoy. And Amy if there are any pics you wnat let me know and I'll email them to you. Thanks again...it was really fun. And completely exhusting, we all came back and collasped from our fun day.

Make a Smilebox photobook

Today Greg is actually attending his conference so his Aunt Rita is coming to take us out exploring. Yeah!!! Tomorrow the kids and I are on our own, so i hope the weather cooperates with us so we can take in some sight seeing. It will be my first time sight seeing all by myself. Should be an adventure...and that's probably an understatement. Stay Tuned for more adventures.

The day was going so well....

until my brand new tire went flat. We had had a lovely day of traveling I-80 through Ohio and most of Indiana headin to Chicago. We had just finished dinner and were leaving the travel plaza when Greg said I think something's wrong with the tire. (It should be mentioned here that right before we got off at the travel plaza the car was riding funny but we thought it was the road because it seemed to get better.) So we pulled off the side of the road, a mere 100 feet from the end of the travel plaza exit ramp we had just left, to check the tire. And sure enough it was FLAT. And I mean flat. So we put the doughnut on with the kids waiting not so patiently and we loaded the car back up and headed for the next exit on the turnpike. As we're paying the toll we ask the worker where we should go and he sent us to a Truck and Tire center just down the road. When we get there Greg opens the door and an alarm goes off but nobody came so he walked around and looked for another door. The delivery guy pointed him back to the orginal door, so he opened it again. Still no one came so he rang the doorbell, which he said was very quiet, and the guy showed up. The nice man, who only had one arm, said all his guys had gone home and he couldn't do it so he sent us to Walmart...of course! He made sure that Greg understood this was the country and negleted to tell us this Walmart was like 10 miles away and then sent us on our merry little way. After a lovely drive, we arrived at Walmart only to see the guy closing up. We look at the clock and it's a half an hour past closing time but we thought he might take pity on us. He told Greg it was actually an hour earlier than we thought and he'd be happy to take care of us, BUT....and this is where it gets really good.....they have NO power. All we could do was laugh. Turns out that half the town had no power so nothing else would be open to fix our tire. We are now at a nice Holiday Inn Express in LaPorte Indiana awaiting Walmart's opening tomorrow. At this moment the princess is asleep and Daddy has Toby at the pool to unwind, and Mommy....well I'm drinking a beer! Tomorrow will be a great day however cause we are going to meet up at Navy Pier with this terriffic familiy.


And seeing this was the highlight of my day. And as of now I'm going to take it's advice!

Whirlwind Weekend Adventure

So Friday evening we loaded in the car and drove 4.5 hours to Lewisburg, PA for our Rich and Heather's wedding. For the past four years we have had season Pitt tickets with our buddy Rob and his brother Rich and Rich's girlfriend Heather. They both looked so happy and we are incredibly happy for them. When the festivities were over Saturday evening, we loaded back in the car and drove back home. We were gone for about 31 hours total. lol. And we are only home for two days cause we're leaving this week for Chicago for Greg's Conference. While he's learning at his seminars, the kids and I will be living it up. Sounds good to me! Here are some pics from the wedding.

Rich and Heather saying their vows.

Toby being back in the corner by little girls. He most certainly did NOT want to dance with them. That didn't stop them from trying to drag him out there. Yikes, it's starting already.

Rob with his Mommy...I told you guys this picture turned out good.

The bridal party all dressed up for YMCA

Starting to get sleepy

Liliana and Daddy sharing a dance

Getting even more sleepy

My balloon, my balloon

Where did it go?

Too cute

Even though it's not in focus...I love it

Playing in the mulch

A family photo (at the end of the day so we look alittle tired)

Liliana and her Godfather Rob

Love this shot too.

There you go everyone. Something to tide you over. Enjoy your Labor Day!