Life's Little Blessings

Congradulations to our family friend's son and his wife as they welcome their daughter tonight.  They named her Arabella Milann, her middle name is a combination of her mom's first name Mila and his mom's middle name Ann.  She was born at 7:13 pm and weighted 7lbs 7.3 ozs and 20 1/4 inches long. 

So this weekend was amazing!  My husband Jim totally surprised me and spoiled me rotten for my 30th birthday.  We first took the train into the Chicago and then walked from Union Station to our hotel.  Yes, we are stayed the night.  We stayed at the Swissotel.  I had to take pictures of our view from the hotel windows because we were on the 36th floor. For dinner we went to a restruant too was called Fog de Choa, which was a Brazilan steakhouse.  It was amazing.  They had a gourmet salad bar and when you ready for the main meal you would flip these cards over and it would indicate to the goucho servers that you were ready.  They would come with meat on swekers and crave some off for you, they had 12 differnet types of meat.  With the meat they served us with cheesy garlic mashed potatoes, carmelized bananas and fried platentas.  Everything was so delious.  When had dessert, they wrote Happy Birthday with strawberry sauce on my plate...

I would like to say congradulations to my friend Zulema and her fiancee Aaron as they welcome their first child and son into the world.  They named him Levi Lucas and he was born on July 13th @ 6:06pm.  He was 8lbs 9oz and so adorable.

Welcome to the world and to our family Audrey Rose!  Today my cousin Elizabeth had her first child and daughter.  She was born weighing 5lbs 2.7 oz and 19 inches long.  My cousin Elizabeth and Audrey

By one of the parks that is walking distance to our house has a little forest presevation.  It is really beautiful walking throught it in the fall when leaves are beginning to change.  The girls today wanted to go through it on our way to going to the park and I was up for the extra distance for getting more exercise.  Eva and Maggie both call it "the jungle,"  but they were willing to let me snap a few pictures of them.  They also had so much fun at the park.  The only thing I wish this park would have are swings both for infant/toddlers and older children and a seesaw.

So today Jim and I decided to do a family day since it was Jim's first day off in about a month and half.  So we went to church as family like we do every Sunday and then headed to Chicago.  The girls knew we were going to "the Big City," which is what they refer to Chicago, but they didn't know what we were doing.  I didn't even know what Jim had planned to do.  Once we got into the city we drove all the way to the lake.  So the girls got to see Buckingham Fountain and Lake Michigan before we got to our destination.  Once we got to our destination, which was NAVY PIER, the girls were so excited.  We went on the Ferris Wheel first and while we were waiting in line they took a family photo of us.  The girls were so fascinated in all the sights that they could see while riding the Ferris wheel.  Then we went to lunch at Bubba Gump, while we waited for our table we watch a performance of pirates.  It was really interesting.  They would...

The girls got a new toy today from Grandma Kathy and Aunt Beth.  They each got a FRISBEE!  They were pretty cute with it and I was pretty impressed with how well they both did with throwing it since they never had one before today.