Happy Birthday Aunt Kathy!

Last weekend Aunt Kathy turned 60! The whole Kohr family was in town to celebrate!

We started the night off in the back room at The Eagles where we enjoyed some drinks and food. Later in the night we headed back to the birthday girl's house (her house is the party house after all!) for some more fun.

Girl Cousins!

A boy among girls!

Brooklyn!

Maddie and Luke

Love this one :)

All of the cousins - it is amazing how great this picture turned out!

The balloons were a big hit with Luke and B!

Ok - don't kill me for posting these, but they are hilarious.

Take 1 - Kohr siblings

Take 2 - Kohr siblings

Take 3 - Kohr siblings

Take 1 - Kohr siblings + spouses
Take 2 - Kohr siblings + spouses (awe man, dad, this could have been a good one!)

Happy Birthday Aunt Kathy - we love you!

The 3 P's

1. Papa
2. Park
3. Paparazzi

Last Saturday afternoon after lunch and a little rest, Papa took Lukey over to the park. [Unfortunately, Grammy is on the DL with a broken foot :( ] Of course, the paparazzi had to stop by and take some pictures of the action.

Getting ready to go down the slide

Weeeeeee!!!!!!!

Taking a break

Picture of Papa and Luke - Take 1

Take 2

Take 3

Take 4

Take 5

Photography by Carly

Luke and I drove to La Salle after the Jackhammers game Friday night. We had Aunt Kathy's birthday party on Saturday night, but Wally had to scout for the varsity baseball team Saturday morning so he was going to meet us there Saturday afternoon.

Late Saturday morning we headed outside for a bit - it was a hot one! We loaded on the sunscreen, Carly took the camera, and this is what we got....

Ok if this picture doesn't make Daddy proud, I don't know what would! Look at that form - even stepping with the correct foot! I guess this picture even makes a mama proud :)

Chloe was a little hot!

He was waiting for Papa to come back from the front yard.

Of course there was some sweeping!

A little "watering"

A little baseball

Water break

Love this!

Poor Chloe had enough!

They both did!

That is one hot, sweaty boy waiting for his lunch!

Jackhammers Baseball

We started off our long Memorial Day weekend with a Joliet Jackhammers baseball game Friday night. Not long after we bought our tickets, got some food, and sat in our seats, did we realize that we could have saved $12 and just bought the $5 lawn seats because we weren't going to be sitting very much.

This may not be the summer of baseball for the Zukowski family. Luke was so easy to bring to baseball games last year. He went to 3 Cubs games, 1 Sox game, and a couple of Windy City Thunderbolts games. He would sit contently on our laps just taking it all in. What a difference a year can make. He did really great at the Windy City Thunderbolt game the other weekend, but the Joliet games are quite a bit more crowded so there is less room for Luke to run free. He was not happy in the seat even when we were giving him bites of his hot dog and some nachos. He would take a bite and then go try to bug some other people that were actually trying to watch the game. So we finally gave up and just walked towards the outfield so he could roam a bit. He just didn't stop though, well except of course when there was music. Then he would stop to dance for a second.

I really didn't take any pictures. We really were far too busy keeping him out of everyone's way. He did get to enjoy some rainbow flavored dippin' dots! Even that he ate on the move though!

Checking out Jammer the mascot!

As we were on our last walk around the ballpark before heading out, Luke finally plopped down on the grass by himself. So Wally took a seat next to him and actually got to see about 5 minutes of the game. What a cute picture that moment of calmness made!

It is hard to say we had a good time. It wasn't awful, but definitely exhausting. We may try another Windy City game again this summer, but I think the Cubs will have to wait until next year for Luke.