Family Visit

Katie's family was in Illinois for 3 weeks, but between her trip with her inlaws to NYC, our trip to the Ozarks, and us having to work, we had only seen them at the beginning of their trip. To celebrate Katie and Kristie's birthday and Ellie's birthday, we went home for the weekend. We basically had meals, pool time, play time, and walks, but it was a great weekend!

The Roleys are back in AZ now, safe and sound. It was good to see you guys and have lots of QT together!

Happy 4th of July

Well, we actually celebrated Independence Day on July 3. The Morton fireworks are always the day before the 4th, and you can see them from my parents house, so they have a party every year. Katie's family was home from AZ, and this was the first year since I have been married that we have been home for the 4th. It was lots of fun. There were lots of families, food, drinks, and fireworks! Diggy was scared again, and Gwen went to bed before the big show, but it was a good time.

Happy 4th of July!

June 2011

June flew by; here are some of the highlights!


Bayer got married! It was such a fun wedding. We had the best time with my girlfriends and their husbands/boyfriends. Courtney looked sooooo pretty and it was such a nice wedding. Lucky for us, my cousin Emily lives close to where the wedding was and babysat Gwenna. We were able to have a fun night and be there when she woke up in the morning! Adam had his first Father's Day. We spent the Saturday before with his dad at Robin's house enjoying a really nice brunch. Then on Father's Day, we went to Morton for the morning and came back to Mahomet and went out to dinner with just the 3 of us. There are lots of little festivals in the Champaign area during summer. This one was the Blues, Brews, and BBQ festival. Strangely, the weekend of this festival it was very fall-ish weather. Adam liked the food there! I got sushi afterwards :)

Gwen is getting so old and taking her places gets more and more fun, yet more and more difficult :) She has so much fun but gets into EVERYTHING! Being outside is a challenge because she can't stay put and puts everything into her mouth. I love her adventurous, spunky personality! She loves animals so we thought she'd like this horse at the mall, but it wasn't her favorite activity!

Lexie came to stay with us for a couple of days. It was so nice having her here! If I wasn't only 27, I would wish I had a 14 year old daughter :) She was such a help and is so good with little kids. We went out to meals and frozen yogurt, took walks, went shopping a bit, went swimming, etc.

Bring on the Heat!

While most people are complaining about the heat and humidity, I am LOVING it. I love the fact that it feels like summer! Warm weather makes for so many more activities to do with Gwen and we are taking advantage! Every night we take a walk or bike ride, we go to the park, we swing in the backyard, we grill out for dinner, we swim, etc.

Our weekend consisted of not only enjoying the weather but also attending dance recitals both days :) Friday night we went to Reese and Mara's recital in Champaign (we also got a babysitter and go to go to a nice dinner before, outside of course :). Then Saturday we went to Bloomington to Sylvie's. We took Gwen to this one, and she LOVED it. I thought she might fuss and we might have to take her out a lot, but she loved the lights, music, glitsy costumes, and dancing.


We had a great week, and now we are excited for next weekend...my friend Bayer's wedding in Chicago, which pretty much is a Kappa reunion :)

End of May

As always, the weather in the midwest is so unpredictable. There have been lots of storms, so we are trying to take advantage of every minute that it's warm and not raining!
Last week was Sylvie's preschool graduation, so Gwen and I got to go. Cal's in the same preschool, so all of the classes sang some songs. It was really cute.

Today it has been very warm outside and it's supposed to rain later, so we spent the whole morning outside. After story time, we went for a long walk, then got home and Gwen had lunch outside. Then we swang and she splashed in her pool.

We are excited that after a long winter, summer has arrived!

Current Events...

We have been so busy! Here are a few updates:

1. The Royal Wedding I had been anticipating for so long finally took place. I got up early and watched coverage all day long. It didn't disappoint! Kate was a beautiful bride!!!

2. My mom, Kristie, and cousin Emily came to visit last Saturday. We had a girls night, then Sunday had a full day of events planned before we went to see Legally Blonde at Assembly Hall. Well, we ate lunch, got pedicures, ate frozen yogurt and then went to the mall to meet my cousin Shelby and Aunt Carol. After shopping for awhile, we were waiting for Carol to pay outside of Forever 21 when a sea of people started running at us and screaming that there was a man with a gun. I have never been so scared in my life, seeing all the people who looked so scared and not knowing where this guy with a gun was. We all just ran...Kristie, my mom, and I to the back of Forever 21 and out the employee exit, Emily and Shelby to Gap (they were trapped in the back room there for about an hour), and Carol got stuck in Forever 21 before the shut the back exit. After the police cleared the mall and released people, we got as far away from the mall as we could. After seeing the news, we found out that it was in relations to gang members from Milwauke coming down to Champaign because they were after some guy because a drug deal went wrong. The victim was shot at multiple times and the gunman was shot by a police officer. It was such a scary experience that I hope I never have to be involved with again.

3. Gwen and I went on a mother/daughter trip to Tucson. We got there late Wednesday night and came back yesterday. She was soooooo good on the flights and LOVED swimming. Her cousins were so nice to her and she had fun playing with some of their big kid toys. We really had fun spending time with the Roleys and enjoying the summer weather!

Great start to May! Summer is so close!

Easter Weekend

After Adam being gone M-Th two weeks in a row, it was nice that he had Good Friday off from work. We went out for sushi and Gwen loved playing with chopsticks. She also got to try some tofu, avocado, and I let her suck on some pickled ginger. Surprisingly, she loved the ginger!
Sunday we had a busy day. We went to Adam's dad's house in Kincaid to meet up with his family in the morning, and my family came to our house in the afternoon.

We thought it was funny because Scarlett and Gwen are finally seeming close in age. We took the kids to the park to play and they had fun.

The rest of the evening, they colored, did an egg hunt and we grilled out dinner!

Hope Easter was good for everyone!