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Monday, July 12, 2010

Lake Geneva 2010

This past weekend we headed up to Lake Geneva with the Zukowski family. We stayed at The Abbey Resort in Fontana. Everyone went up on Thursday afternoon, but unfortunately I had to work Thursday and Friday (it is my busy time of year - the audit, yuck!) so I joined them Friday evening. All of the pictures are from Saturday morning on. I know they had lots of fun at the pool the first couple of days. We had a lot of fun and had great weather!

Lukey with his lifevest on waiting to get on the pontoon boat.

He was showing no fear of the water - yikes!

On the boat - check out that face - ha!

Our captains on the way out!
This is pretty much the look he had the whole time on the boat - he was tired and not sure what to think of it.
Daddy and Uncle "Fishy" swimming (When we would ask Luke Will's name, he said fishy so he is now known as Uncle Fishy!)
Watching everyone swim (well, not me...I don't do lake water or any larger body of water really...bring me to the pool :) )Even Grandpa went swimming!

He was on the verge of sleeping at this point. He was tired to begin with, but the rocking of the boat really made him sleepy!

See - very sleepy!
Pat was our captain on the way back!

After the boat ride, we tried to put Luke down to continue his nap since his nap wasn't very long on the boat, that didn't happen so we decided on some pool time instead. I forgot my camera in the room, but The Abbey has a great splash area for kids. It is the perfect size for Luke. He went down the slide many times and had lots of fun.

After pool time and some lunch and no signs of a nap from him, we headed to downtown Lake Geneva with Wally's parents to check out the shops and beach over there. As soon as he hit the car, Luke was out and he continued to sleep once we got down there and put him in his stroller so luckily he got a good nap in.

He woke up in time for a picture with Grandma and Grandpa in front of the fountain at the pier.


Once we got back to the resort, we got ready for dinner and enjoyed a buffet at one of the restaurants there. The restaurant was a nicer place and there was an older man playing the piano while we ate. Well a 19-month old can really change the mood at a place like that. Wally gave Luke his metal crab leg cracker. After playing with it for awhile, completely out of the blue, he chucked it across the table. This shattered my wine glass and red wine was everywhere. The man instantly stopped playing music and there was complete silence in the place. Then there was Luke's face...he knew he shouldn't have done that. The pouty lip came out and he said some "oh no's". We got it cleaned up, but Luke really wasn't feeling sitting in a high chair or on anyone's lap that night so it was quite the final vacation dinner!

After the eventful dinner, we went back to the rooms for some drinks and fun. There was some dancing on the bed....
Some jumping on the bed...
Some pictures...
and then one tired toddler laying on the patio outside.
After the little kid hit the sack, the big kids hit the bar! We went to one at the restaurant where there was a 70's and 80's funk band playing - it was interesting! Here are all the happy couples!




Here are just a few pics of Luke before we packed up and headed to church then home.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Fourth of July Weekend - the 4th

We drove back home after the fireworks in Peru Saturday night. My family was coming over to cook out and swim that day. Wally and my dad headed out early that morning to get some golf in before pool time. I only took 2 pictures all day...boo! We had a great time and even got Chloe (my parent's golden retriever to go for her first swim :) I do wish I had my camera for that moment!).

I was off work on the 5th too, but I took no pictures and we didn't really do much. We headed over to Orland Mall where Luke got to run around in the play area, we ate at Buffalo Wild Wings and went to bed early!

Fourth of July Weekend - the 3rd

We had our subdivision 4th of July parade on Saturday. All the kids were on bikes or in wagons and we paraded around the perimeter of the subdivision led by 2 police cars and followed by a firetruck. We always knew there were a lot of kids in the subdivision but when you get them all in one place, it is crazy to see how many there really are.

On our way to the parade - check out our mildly decorated wagon :)

Nala joined us too - she was a little hot!
Luke thought it was pretty cool when she was in the wagon with him.

Most of the crowd
Checking out the firetruck behind him.Here we go!

Towards the end, poor Nala got very tired. She was so nervous with the firetruck sirens going off the whole time. She got worn out pretty quickly.
So Daddy had to hold her - ha!

Laid back on our way back home!

A little bubble time!
After the parade we relaxed for a bit and then headed to Peru for the fireworks. You can see them from Wally's parent's front porch! We had some dinner, did some visiting, and then a pretty good crowd made it's way over to the Zukowski's for the fireworks show.


Watching Grandpa Z. light fireworks.

Minutes before the fireworks started...I don't think he's going to make it....
He lasted only a few minutes...he didn't mind the fireworks at all, but he was pooped!

Monday, July 5, 2010

Fourth of July Weekend - the 2nd

I had a nice 4-day weekend from work so we kicked it off with a little pool day on Friday!

We tried putting this vest on Luke, but he wasn't digging it and it didn't keep him upright in the water anyways.

Taking a break...
Enjoying a Mr. Freeze!


Friday night we headed down to Beecher (a town about 15 minutes from us) to check out their festival and carnival. They have really great fireworks that Wally and I have been to before, but we never walked over to the food, rides, and games!

Luke was stealing all of the flags around the tree...oops!
I think he was mid-pizza bite!

Luke LOVED the slide. He kept saying "again", but it was $3 for us to ride so once was enough - sorry buddy!
Luke lost his shoe when we were sitting down so I had to grab it as we were going!
A little fuzzy, but he was pretty happy when we got to the bottom!
Next up was the carousel! He sat on the horse for about 5 seconds so before the ride even started we were sitting in the car instead.

We played one game - The Mouse Game. I have never seen this game before, but it is like roulette. You put a quarter on a number or row of numbers and they spin the wheel and let a mouse go and whatever number the mouse climbs into is the winner. It seems a little cruel, but we like roulette so we played a few times with the quarters in my purse. We weren't winners :(
We played outside some more when we got home.



We had a great fun-filled, family day!!!

Friday, July 2, 2010

A Fun Summer Day

This is what a Saturday looked like a couple of weeks ago and that is what we are planning on today looking like too!!! Just a day of outdoor fun and pool time!




Getting ready to 'jump'!


The basketball hoop was key into getting Luke into the pool. However, he wasn't digging his float, BUT he did LOVE hanging out on the big float :)