Party of Five

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Roomie

Hey everybody!

I have a new playmate!

Uncle Fishy (aka Uncle Will) is living with us while he student teaches at Oak Forest High School.

Monday, August 23, 2010

I have been gone overnight for the past 2 Saturdays. On the 13th it was my friend Sarah's bachelorette party in Milwaukee. This was a super fun night spent with all of my college girlfriends and lots of dancing.

Limo ride!

Heading into the salsa club!

Getting our salsa lesson

Roomies!

This past Saturday was Father/Daughters Day in Chicago. For my dad's birthday my sisters and I pitched in for some Cub's tickets and a day/night to be spent in the city. We have done many overnight/day trips with my mom, but never just dad and the girls! So we started off at Stacey's, walked to Wrigleyville, had a drink at Slugger's, enjoyed an unusual Cub's victory, ate some bar food, watched a band at a street festival, walked a mile to a German bar for one beer, and then headed back to Stacey's to sleep. It was a very fun day!

3 strikes you're out!

Some random guy jumped in our picture!

I have had lots of fun these past two weekends, but could definitely use a relaxing weekend at home!

Thursday, August 19, 2010

SK 2010 - Heading Home

Our trip back home was just as great as our trip down.

We left Siesta Key at about 8:15 AM. Luke took about a 45 minute nap mid-morning and then we stopped for lunch in Lake City, FL. We hit the road again and Luke took another nap (this time an hour - woo hoo!) in the late afternoon and we arrived in Chattanooga, TN around 6 PM. This was our stop for the night. We ate at Fazoli's - yum! Wally and I always get excited when we see one of those. We checked in to the hotel and as if we didn't get enough swimming in during the week, we hit the pool up one more time! We were in bed by 9.

We were back on the road the next morning by 7:45. Luke took his longest nap yet of the road trips that morning - he slept for 2 hours! We stopped for lunch somewhere in southern Illinois and arrived in Peru just before 4 PM. We made a quick stop at the Zuk's and then went over to my parent's to pick up Nala. We were finally home at 7 PM!!!

It was a GREAT vacation! The drives there and back were great, the location was great, the weather was great, and the company was the best!

Now I guess I better find something else to blog about...

SK 2010 - Our Last Day

Friday was pretty much the same as Thursday except we ate The Daquiri Deck that night and headed back to the beach one last time!

These series of pictures with Wally and Luke crack me up - this is seriously a synopsis of their relationship right here!

Unfortunately it was too dark to see anything on the video, but Luke said his goodbye's and blew kisses!

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

SK 2010 - Thursday

Thursday we changed up our plans a bit to work with Luke a little better so we did the pool in the morning, a late morning nap, lunch, and then headed to the beach. Thursday night we drove to Bradenton (about a 1/2 hour drive) to see a minor league baseball game. Their mascot was a pirate and Luke wanted to see it, and then he got scared when he got closer, and then by the end of the night, he couldn't get enough of him. At one point, him and I were walking to the other side of the park where the mascot was and some music came on over the loud speaker. He immediately stopped and started dancing right in front of this section of people. They were all laughing at him and he was enjoying it. Then the music stopped and everyone clapped for Luke and he got really shy - it was too funny! Luke did get 3 balls too. One from an usher and 2 from some guys in the bullpen!