Seattle Trip

Here are a few shots from our Seattle Trip. If you followed Aaron's Blog, we did get out there Saturday evening, loosing one day. But after that the trip was great, we had perfect weather (whoever says it rains in Seattle everyday has it wrong) it was sunny at 60-70s everyday, low humidity! A great break from the Chicago heat. This first pick is at the Ballard Locks in northern Seattle. By the locks they had a beautiful garden and lots of roses.


This photo is of the famous "flying fish" at Pikes Place Market.




Then Aaron by the original Starbucks and a picture of us hiking at Mt Ranier. Unfortunately it was very foggy in the mountains, and came home to find our camera not working any longer. I'm still in the process of trying to figure out if we can fix it...so no picks after Monday.

Summer is HERE!!

WOW, I haven't posted on here for a long time! Just thought I would show some highlights of how our Summer's going so far! Kels is on the swim team this year, and is loving it! Her best stroke, I'd say, is the backstroke. Here she is taking off for the freestyle.

Getting ready to take off for the relay...

And Saturday mornings, Josiah plays T-Ball! He likes it, but we were gone for 1 of the games, and then last Sat it was cancelled due to all the rain, so he hasn't played for a while. He only has a few more games left. He also started basketball camp this week. (4 days for an hour & half in the morning) He is LOVING that! So this summer so far has been pretty crazy for us!

We had a pipe leaking just outside our basement wall, and water was seeping into the basement, so we got that fixed last week! The kids loved watching the digger working just outside. They were so funny all lined up watching out the window.

My poor yard :( Oh well, it's fixed, and our bill was MUCH less then they quoted us! (Gotta love that!)

And, we've been camping twice! (so far...going again over the 4th!) Memorial Day weekend, there's a group that camps at some friends of ours - this year there were 15 campsites! They live along the Mackinaw, and their property connects with one of his brothers, who has a lake. It was the most PERFECT setting! They have a huge shed with a kitchen & full bathroom in it, then down a long lane (right by the river) is a big clearing where everyone camped! The kids had so much fun, since there were alot of other kids their age!

Here's the lake - with this enormous swing! (Kels went off it!)

Then the other weekend we went with some friends to Starved Rock for the weekend. It was soooo beautiful...the weather was perfect!

Our nightly visitor...

Eating breakfast around the campfire :)

Hope everyone's doing well! Love you all! -Kristy

My Birthday

This first pic is of me on our "bike the drive" where they closed down lake shore drive from 5-9 on Sunday Morning and we biked down the the Museum of Science and Industry and back to our house.




The next is the fabulous plate of food at the wonderful restaurant "North Pond" Aaron surprised me with.















Just a fun picture from the restaurant's front, looking at the city.

Love you all! Again....let me know when you want to come up to Chicago this summer! Our July/Aug has open weekends!