Last Weekend

I feel like I haven't written about our weekends much lately, but we have been having some good ones! Just this past weekend, the kids and I headed to LP to visit the grandparents and help shower Aunt Stacey and baby with some love and presents!

Here is a glimpse of what goes on when we visit Grandma and Grandpa Z.

Sunday was the shower. Pretty Paige all ready to go!

8 weeks or less until the arrival of Baby G!

Luke had to get in on the pic too!

Cousins!

Luke and as he says, "my friend Sofa"

We headed back to Grammy & Papa's after the shower for a bit before heading home.

Telling a very serious story!

And then he disappeared and came back looking like this!

And then he disappeared again and came back looking like this - ha! He was definitely entertaining us!

Then the little miss got curious! I love these pictures - they show her determination, strength, and of course her rolls :)

Miss Avery

Today, Paige and I got the pleasure of meeting Miss Avery Jane Lenkaitis, the daughter of my best friend Jessica and her husband Charlie! Avery was born Friday night at 8:40 PM weighing 6 lbs. 7 oz. and was 19 inches long. She is gorgeous and such a little peanut!






Current besties, future besties (just 11 weeks apart), and the coolest dog around :)


One proud papa!


So far Paige is winning in the "Who's the bigger drama queen?" contest!


We can't wait to see her again!

Here are a few other pics from when we were in town!

Paigey and Grandpa


Luke's 'friends' at Grandma and Grandpa's house (and Oscar the newest fur-baby in the family!)


A naked Lukey riding the flying broomstick at Grammy and Papa's!

Weekend in LP

Paige made her first trip to La Salle - Peru last weekend. Wally had his brother's bachelor party on Saturday night so I decided that we might as well all go along for the ride.

Paige and Luke both slept the whole way in the car. Hooray for good car babies!

Friday night we hung out and stayed at Grandma and Grandpa Zukowski's.

Luke and Grandpa are always playing something!


And this Grandma couldn't get enough of her granddaughter!


Paige met her Uncle Pat for the first time - yes, that's right. UNCLE Pat - Emmy and Pat got engaged yesterday!!! Yay - so happy for them!


Saturday the kids and I stopped at my grandparents' house so they could meet Paige!




And Great Grandpa talked trucks with Luke!


She was also able to meet her Uncle Steve and Aunt Cindy. Yes, Aunt Cindy! Steve and Cindy also got engaged recently. Lots of family weddings coming up :)


Then we headed to Grammy and Papa's for the rest of our visit. Luke couldn't wait for Ben to come over to play with him. He kept 'calling' him on the phone asking him to come and play.

So here they are!




That night we ordered some chicken from John's North Star and then walked down to Twisty for some ice cream.

Sunday we headed to church and relaxed until we headed home with 2 tired kids.

Watching Mickey Mouse with Papa




Check out the racerback - so cute!


And one final picture - a Grammy and her grandbabies!

Weekend of Walking

Last Saturday morning Luke and I, along with my mom and Kathy, left La Salle bright and early (6:15 AM) to head down to Illinois Wesleyan in Bloomington to participate in the nursing program's 50th anniversary run/walk (Aunt Car Car is a nursing major there - only one more year - woot!). Stacey took the train down there on Friday night too. It was a bit chilly since it was pretty early - the run/walk started at 8 AM - so we had to get bundled up. Stacey and Carly ran, the rest of us strolled our way to the finish line.

He wore my gloves for awhile!




Nice Carly and Luke, ha!


Being silly with Stacey


Run Carly Run!


Strolling along with Aunt Kathy

After the race, we took a little tour of the nursing classrooms/lab and wandered around campus for a bit. Luke wasn't digging the stroller at this point so he did some walking and we did some carrying! We then made our way to Panera for a late breakfast. Lukey fell asleep in the car though and was OUT! I thought for sure he would wake up when I took him out of the car - NOPE, then he would for sure wake up when we walked into Panera and ordered - NOPE...he was tired! So we sat at a booth and I laid him down and there he slept for probably 30 minutes or maybe even longer. Once he woke up, he enjoyed the bagel we had bought for him and we were off to do some shopping.

Look what I found!




Passed out at Panera Bread

I was in search of a new picture for my kitchen/dining room so we headed to Gordman's. Between 5 women and a cute little boy to buy for, we did some damage there. Kathy said she could spend 6 hours just shopping there - I think we all could! They have so many fun, unique decorations/stuff for your home. I think I could re-decorate my whole house just from buying from there. Then we made a quick stop at The Children's Place and headed back to Carly's apartment to hang out.

After some chaos when leaving Carly's (just confusion and plans gone awry), we headed back to La Salle. (Stacey stayed another night and took the train back to Chicago on Sunday morning.) My parent's had a 50th birthday party to go to that night and Wally was in desparate need of seeing his little man (he had games every day this week and only caught Luke maybe twice before he went to bed) so Luke and I headed back to Monee around 7:30 PM. I wanted him to have some "out of car" time since we did lots of driving that day. So I put him in his jammies and off we went. He fell asleep about Morris and was out until our exit. Wally had his 2 assistant coaches over so Luke and I hung out with them for about 45 minutes and off to bed we went. Luke was still up bright and early (5:40 AM) so Daddy got lots of time with him on Sunday!!!!

This was at my parents - Luke somehow got music to play on the computer!!!

Sunday we went to church, Luke took a nap, and then we took a walk to the park. After some fun there, Luke decided he didn't want back in his wagon so he ended up walking all the way home (probably about 4 or 5 blocks). I couldn't believe he made it the whole way. And he walked on the sidewalk and didn't even dilly-dally too much. We had some more fun in the backyard and then it was time for dinner, bath, and bedtime. It was a long, but fun weekend!!!!

Wwwwweeeeee!!!!!






Check out that hair!








He thought he would pull the wagon home.