My big Girl

Addy is finally sitting at the table like a big girl. No more highchair for her. She looks like such a big girl!

Happy 55th Anniversary Nana and Papa!

This past Friday was Nana and Papa's 55th wedding anniversary! Addy and I were invited by my mom to go out to lunch with them at Port Edwards. Addy was so great at lunch. She always gets so excited when she sees Papa and then she runs to Nana. It is cute. She looked at the fish and lobsters with Papa and even got her own dessert of ice cream. We took some pictures and thought they turned out really cute. The dress she is wearing is adorable. She got it from her Aunt Charlotte, Uncle Josh and cousin Riley. The shoes were thanks to Auntie Em. She wanted to wear them so I had no choice. Enjoy pics!

Prayers and Thoughts

I wanted to send my prayers and thoughts to the Laudick Family during this hard time. Therese Laudick passed away last week. I have so many highschool memories of being at the Laudick's house for get-togethers, cast parties, summer parties and even a camp out. She was always such a friendly and sweet person. I felt so comfortable at their house. She had the most amazing Christmas village with all her houses. It was one of my favorite things during the holidays. She will be missed by so many people.

Lakeside Gala-Hello Dave

Today Jay, Addy and I met my parents at the Lakeside Gala. It was a lot of fun. We went to see our favorite band Hello Dave! They did not disappoint and gave a great performance! My parents were kind enough to help watch Addy since she didn't want to watch the band the whole time. They ended up taking her back to their house and Jay and I enjoyed the rest of the concert.
Addy also rode the carousal for the first time with my mom and loved it. My dad got some great pics. We had a great 4th of July weekend!

4th of July

We had a wonderful 4th of July. Our festivities started at Addy's friend Parker's 1st birthday party. We had a lot of fun and we also got to see Addy's other friend Tessa who we haven't seen since she was really little. The weather was beautiful and Addy loved being outside with the other kids. For dinner we went to my parents for a BBQ and Addy loved watching Grandpa light off fireworks. She thought it was hilarious. She also loved talking to Nonna and playing with Auntie Em and Uncle Bryan.
It was a wonderful day! Enjoy the pictures!

Visit at the Park

Last week Addy and I went to the park by our house and ran into a highschool friend of mine Scott and his son Ethan. It was the second time we have run into each other at the park. It is always nice to know someone there at the park especially when it is always pretty crowded during the summer. Well Addy thought Scott was hilarious. He was hiding from her and jumping out and she thought it was pretty funny...no she laughed so hard and loud that everyone could hear her. When she really gets laughing it is hard not to laugh right along with her. I was trying to get her to calm down so she wouldn't go to close to the edge, but Scott thought her laugh was funny so he would keep doing it. Gotta love that. :) I think Ethan got a little jealous of Scott playing with Addy, but it is good for him to deal with that now since Ethan will be a big brother in November!!
Here are a couple of pics.

Weekend

This past Sunday we went down to the city for my parents anniversary and my sister Emily met us there. It was Addy's first train ride and she did pretty good. Well the way down there she fell asleep and on the way back she was good for awhile, but started to want to get down. We went to Millenium Park. We saw the Bean and walked all around. We ended up in a kid's activity tent. They had different things for the kids to do. Addy loved playing with the hula hoops and throwing the balls from the buckets game. For lunch we went to Dick's Last Resort where there was a Beatles Cover band playing and too bad we didn't eat out by them but Addy LOVED them. She couldn't take her eyes off of them. It was too cute. She definitly is like her mom with music and the stage. After that we went down to Navy Pier and walked around. All and all it was a fun day and glad we could all be together to celebrate my parent's anniversary. Check out some of the pics!