(Backup) Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall

I kept meaning to do an update with photos from our summer adventures but the Indian summer weather we've had here had me thinking summer wasn't really over.  Here  are a few summer highlights.

We spent a long weekend in Elkhart Lake, WI with Nana and Boppa.

Hazel turned 1!!

We spent a long weekend in Missouri at Lake of the Ozarks with some of our friends.

We camped in the backyard!

We had a block party with fire trucks!

We had a lot of random fun on bikes (Zach learned to ride without training wheels), at the beach and just playing outside.

Made it to the Willis (aka Sears) Tower in Eclipse day.

We spent a weekend in Louisville, KY for a friend's wedding and luckily had Nana and Boppa meet us so the kids could have fun while we were at the wedding. We hit up the Louisville Slugger Museum (worth it!).

And now we are all back in the routine of school and soccer.  

Sorry for such a long post but I wanted to make sure I got all these pictures up of summer.  I wish we had seen all of you that live far away.  Come visit!!  Chicago in the fall is lovely.  Plus everyone is excited about post season baseball.  Go Cubs!!

1st Grade Begins!

Zach had his first day of school today and I think it was pretty great.  He was excited to go to school and excited to tell me all about his day.  Of course he said his favorite part of the day was going home.  Ha!!

School Days Are Back Again

Have I really not updated the blog since June?!  We clearly had a busy summer.  I'll try to do a summer update post in the next week or two. 

As for now, today was Gunnar's first day back at preschool!  He was excited to head back and see his buddies.  He has a new teacher this year but she has been at the preschool for a while so we are all familiar with her.  When we asked him how his day was we got a simple reply of "good!"  That will most likely be about as much information as we will get from him.  His school days will mostly be a mystery to us but he thrives in his own little school world.

Just Another Day at the Office

Looks like this never uploaded to the blog.  I wrote this on July 26th.....

These fellas all went to work together today.  Yep!  Rich's office had a bring your kid to work day so both boys went.  I think they had a day full of activities for the kids which should be fun.  

And Zach had a loose tooth that finally fell out today!

Hazel Mac is ONE!!!

Hazel is becoming quite the little lady and is the big number 1 today!  We spent the past few days having fun as a family in Elkhart Lake, WI but I'll post those photos at a later date.  Right now let's focus on little miss Hazel Mac.  She is getting so big, has a beautiful head full of hair, and is pulling up to standing all the time.  She walks around furniture or with our help but is yet to take steps on her own.  She's close though! 

Hazel Mac has added so much more fun and laughs to our family.  Yes....3 little people are hard but its worth it.  The boys adore her still but she has no trouble putting them in their place when they do something she doesn't like.  She's pretty much the boss of the house these days. 

Here is her year in review......

And just like Gunnar at this age, you can't keep her in one place for very long.  Peace out!

She was ready to cruise in her new ride from Nana and Boppa but wasn't a huge fan of getting messy with cake.  We will see how she does when we celebrate more this weekend.  Happy Birthday Hazel!

Here are the links to Zach and Gunnar at this age.  It's fun to look back and see them being so small!

http://zmakesthree.blogspot.com/2011/11/one.html

http://zmakesthree.blogspot.com/2014/05/g-man-is-one.html