Oh, The Places We'll Go!

The last week, we went to lots of fun places!  We are enjoying our summer and using all our free days before the craziness that will be the school year begins!  I don't have a lot of great pictures thanks to the GREAT CAMERA LOSS OF 2011, but I did get a picture here or there from some of our latest adventures!

MORTON ARBORETUM

We went to the Morton Arboretum with our neighbors, the Staniaks.  It was a really fun day!

Abigail playing in the tadpole pond

Abigail and Caitlin in the rock throwing creek

Miss Reese

The girls in a playhouse

More rock throwing

Abigail and Chase braving the rope course

Mr. Chase!

LAMBS FARM

On Saturday, Auntie Mo Mo and I took the girls to Lambs Farm while the hubbys golfed.  It was a nice morning out!  Lambs Farm is such a special place and I think it's wonderful that it's in our area!  (It was also a free day which was great for us!)

Auntie Mo Mo and Abigail on the Merry-Go-Round

BROOKFIELD ZOO

Yesterday I took my 4 lovelies (my 2 and the 2 I watch) to Brookfield Zoo.  I wasn't sure how it would go being outnumberd 4 to 1, but it went really great, thanks to 4 really well-behaved kids!

Waiting for the Dolphin Show

Funny Picture.  There was this peacock walking around with it's 2 babies...and the kids really wanted a picture with it...but everytime I tried they couldn't concentrate on the picture cause they didn't want to get too close!  Look at the 3 brave kids...and how far away the peacock is!

PIRATES COVE

We went to Pirate's Cove to celebrate Chase's 3rd Bday and Blakes 1st Bday.  It was our first trip to Pirates Cove this year and we had a blast.  Not many pictures, but the kid were busy the whole time!  Check out Caitlin's cute shirt...the Staniaks made pirate shirts for all the kids!  Abigail kept asking if we were going where the "maties" are...I was confused until I realized she calls pirates "maties".

Caitlin LOVED the water ride!

Those are a few of our adventures the past week or so.  We are back to watching kids this week, and in a few weeks Abigail starts preschool 3 days a week.  A few weeks after that, Caitlin starts preschool 1 day a week.  I can't believe how busy we are going to be...but I'm so lucky that I'm able to be with my kids every day and do outings like these!!!!