Closet Bookworm

Sunday evening while I was putting stuff away in Lucas' room from the weekend, he decided to do some 'reading' and playing in his closet!

9 Month Pics

I had been debating whether or not to take Luke to get some 9-month pictures taken. I had initially decided not to (you could say I was scarred from the tragedy of his 6-month pics.) ,but I was starting to feel guilty that I hadn't had them done so last minute I decided on Friday that we would just go to Sears. I told myself we would only do one outfit (which we did) and I would buy very few pictures (which I didn't as you can tell by the pictures below which means that I spent enough to get the CD...oops!). It is just too hard to choose - I thought one outfit would make it easier, but he is too cute! While we did get pictures with smiles in just about every pose, the photographer and myself had to work our butts off for those smiles though. I was literally jumping up and down and sweating, but we got some good ones so it was worth it!

Enjoy! (These are unedited so the blemish in the fence is gone in the ones I ordered).



















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Over!

The reunion is officially over, done, kaput!! Thank goodness! The events of the weekend seemed to go pretty well; however, once we counted the money that was collected from the weekend and added it to what we already had, we are still a little over $100 short...so I guess we just eat that and hope that whoever plans the 20-year reunion (because it will not be Wally) has some extra money and we can maybe be reimbursed down the road! We don't mind "donating" a little extra, but it would have been nice to at least break-even.

Anyways...here is the lowdown from the weekend.

Friday night - Homecoming football game
We arrived at the Zukowski's a little after 6, got everything situated for Lucas that night, and then headed to the game with the little man in tow and Wally's parents. Wally had to do his Class of '99 Homecoming King duties down on the field in between the sophomore and varsity games. Wally's parents stuck around for a little bit with Lucas and then took him home for the night while we attended the Friday night festivities down at Water Street Pub.











Saturday - Tim Phelp's wedding reception and the LAST event of the reunion.
We packed up our things from the Zukowski's and moved over to the Swanson's early Saturday afternoon. We once again got Lucas situated and then headed out to Lehigh Park in Oglesby for Tim Phelp's wedding reception. We weren't able to stay too long, but it was good to see some of those guys. Then we had a quick breather back at my parent's and headed out to Grand Bear to get everything set-up for the Cocktail out there. Everything was set-up very nicely (which we were very glad about). The night seemed to go well and then we stopped at Skoog's for a couple of drinks before calling it a night. It was finally OVER!!





You could see the relief in his face (and his back finally stopped hurting from the stress)!


Relaxing Sunday
We went to church and then just relaxed at my parent's for a bit. We enjoyed some chili for lunch and then headed for home around 1 o'clock. Wally had an observation in his zero-hour class on Monday morning so he wanted to get home to make sure he had everything ready to go (it went well by the way!). We watched the Bears, ate some frozen pizza, and pretty much called it a night. All three of us were exhausted!



Playing some 'football' with Papa




Enjoying some orange sherbet dessert with Daddy!


Checking out his first Bears tickets with Papa (unfortunately, he wasn't a winner!)

Future Hunter...

only if mommy will allow it :)

Park Pics

It was beautiful outside yesterday so we walked over to the park before supper. Lucas enjoyed the swing again and this time he got to explore some more of the fun things the park has to offer! We stayed as long as we could, but the mosquitoes were bad yesterday!











I even enjoyed some swinging...


and so did Wally and Nala!














Going down the slide!