Miranda July 7, 2012

Dinner

Marla July 7, 2012

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle-Road Rally 2012

Maureen July 7, 2012

The winning Road Rally team!

Miranda July 6, 2012

Waiting for a train to come

Marla July 6, 2012

Making our Road Rally shirts.

Maureen July 6, 2012

Practicing archery before the big game tomorrow

Miranda July 5, 2012

My boys were so wiped from the holiday, that they were in bed by 7:30pm so they didn't get to see fireworks : ( So, we did sparklers and bubbles at out neighbors tonight instead.

Maureen July 5, 2012

We spent some time at a magical land where the floors were made of ice, today. Ahh, it felt so good in there!

Miranda July 4, 2012

Happy 4th!

Marla July 4, 2012

4th of July pool volleyball and trying to cross snake road.

Maureen July 4, 2012

Jim had a big Dino Jump event at a megachurch in Hoffman Estates, today. We all went along to help out.

Miranda July 3, 2012

Maureen July 3, 2012

Thank you, thank you, thank you all!

Miranda July 2, 2012

Finally - look what I got in the mail!

Maureen July 2, 2012

Annie's had the classroom hamster all month. We were supposed to turn it over to the next kid yesterday, but with all of the excitement, we haven't been able to contact him. After hooking up the generator & turning on the air downstairs, we moved Fluffy down to Shel's room to keep him cool.

Miranda July 1, 2012

More Luau pics...

Marla July 1, 2012

Maureen July 1, 2012

Yikes!

Miranda June 30, 2012

Luau!

Maureen June 30, 2012

The puppies dug a hole under the fence opposite the hole that the kids had already dug on the other side of the fence, thereby making their escape! Annie saw them come through & brought them back in. Then Shel & I cut some junk trees down so that we could move the dog house over a few feet, blocking their hole.

Miranda June 29, 2012

Maureen June 29, 2012

Shopping!

Miranda June 28, 2012

Sleepy baby

Marla June 28, 2012

I cooked Cole some frozen salmon to put on a salad...actually I ended up burning the salmon and putting turkey on it instead. I found these instructions a bit confusing..."cook on medium-high FREAT"...maybe that's why I overcooked it.

Maureen June 28, 2012

Hot, hot, hot day! We got to the pool just as the lifeguards were taking their much needed safety break.

Miranda June 27, 2012

Fun with Uncle B

Marla June 27, 2012

Red Woody in Batavia.

Maureen June 27, 2012

Fun night watching Red Woody in Batavia with lots of cousins!

Marla June 26, 2012

Our car window getting replaced. I worked at the school library tonight as the librarian is recovering from a surgery (the school library is open about 5-6 times in the summer.) This is one of the teachers reading to some students.

Maureen June 26, 2012

Getting ready to go to Summer orchestra camp this morning.

Miranda June 26, 2012

Receiving his reward for the Summer Reading Program

Maureen June 25, 2012

Geocaching at Pratt Wayne Woods

Miranda June 25, 2012

Recovering from the party...

Marla June 24, 2012

Madison's beautiful face paint at the Swedish days parade.

Maureen June 24, 2012

Cooling off after the parade

Miranda June 24, 2012

Maureen June 23, 2012

Saw 'Brave' tonight

Marla June 23, 2012

Secret Colours at SubT. When we went to the car after the show we realized that someone had smashed our back passenger seat window and they took Lauren's backpack.

Miranda June 23, 2012

Creek walking

Miranda June 22, 2012

One of the paraprofessionals at Gianni's school lives on a farm and invited the kids over for a morning of farm play! So fun!

Maureen June 22, 2012

Cooling off

Miranda June 21, 2012

This my view - ALL day! My little boy's incisor teeth are coming in and he is miserable...so sad!

Marla June 21, 2012

We usually save the gift cards that Cole gets for his birthday/Christmas for when he really wants something. Today was the day, he got new headphones for his Xbox.