Santa's Village

 Matthew, Max, Molly, Logan, and Mikayla

 This is his angry face

 She will take her picture with anyone she thinks is like a princess

 Logan's first time on the fire truck ride at Santa's Village

 Bo bo and Matthew

 Max, Mommy, Molly, and Mikayla-Molly told Mikayla she was a very good driver

 Ti ti, Logan, Uncle Steve

 Matthew at the funhouse

 Max and Bo bo

 Bumper cars

 Bo bo and Matthew bump into Mikayla

 Nine, Molly, and Mikayla

 I loved his facial expressions going around this ride.

 Feeding the birds was popular

 Logan's looks says-why are we in this room with these birds flying around?

 Mikayla was an expert at getting the birds to come on the stick

 Logan with his Mommy

 Mikayla, Molly, and Matthew (with Bruce the bear)

Beautiful Weather

The weather has been so wonderful lately, I am trying to do as much outside as we can.  Before we know it, it will be cold out.

 On Tuesday we went for a walk around a forest preserve near our house.  I showed the kids where Grant proposed to me.  Molly couldn't believe it, she kept saying, "so right there?"

 The kids love looking for things in the water, especially shells.  We actually lucked out and found two, empty ones of course.

 On Friday Matthew had off of school, so we went to Waterfall Glen in Darien.  It was really pretty there and we had fun once we got off the prairie path that was 4 miles one way in the hot sun with 3 kids.  We drove around to the parking lot closer to the waterfalls.

 Max thought the waterfall was cool

 A bunch of people on a little rock looking for minnows.

 After this excursion Matthew was wet from the waste down, Molly from  the knees down.

 Molly, Bo bo, and Matthew

 Mommy and Max were the first to brave the falls

 Molly, Mommy, Max, and Matthew

Nine didn't want to venture off the rocks by the waterfalls

 Max, Bo bo, and Matthew

 This was the other end of the tree they were sitting on.

 Max was doing some pull ups.  He's pretty strong

 Matthew's class has a stuffed bear that goes home with a different kid each weekend.  This weekend we had Bruce, so Bruce is in the picture with them here.  Luckily, Bruce made it back completely dry.  Had he gotten wet Matthew actually has the same bear so if needed we would have swapped out Mr. Cuddles (Matthew's bear) for Bruce.