Early Morning Beach Time

7:30am, Sunday morn at North Avenue beach :-)  We joined many others from our church to watch the annual baptism service in Lake Michigan.  It's become a fun tradition for us as a family - and it's pretty awesome to get to spend an hour at the beach before church!

Two Special Days

A trip on the Metra to the Choo-Choo Diner with our pal Sam

 And a silly Father's Day photo booth at church :-)  We love you Dad!

Savannah

We went on vacation to Savannah for Auntie Lyndsey's graduation from the college of art & design and had a wonderful time!  Nana rented a beach house for all of us on Tybee Island so we spent most of our time on the beach but also had lots of fun exploring Savannah.  And of course we loved hanging out with our cousin Emmie!

This was the tree in our front yard that had a face in it - Emmie and I thought it was creepy and decided to throw things at it.

On the trolley tour of Savannah with Auntie Lyndsey, cousin Christie, and the rest of the gang.

There was an awesome fountain in Savannah for for us kids to play in and beat the heat!

May Happenings

My school has a multi-cultural festival every year and each grade represents a different culture/country - preschool represented Brazil this year and we learned two songs in Portuguese that we sang at the festival.

Grandpa Bob and Grandma Chris came to visit for Memorial Day weekend and got to see the multi-cultural festival too.  We also went to the beach and Nana was here for a night too so we all went out to dinner.

I bought two goldfish with my own money that I earned from my allowance.  I love having pets and taking care of them!

Mayra Family Visit

Grandpa Mike and Grandma Lisa came to visit and we had so much fun!  We played lots of games and went downtown and had a picnic in Millennium Park.  Koen got a new bike without pedals for his early birthday present and he loves it!  It helps kids get the hang of balancing without training wheels and I quickly learned how to ride my bike with out training wheels after practicing on Koen's.

We also got a new tree planted in our backyard!

We all went up to Milwaukee for the weekend to Uncle Doug and Aunt Lyn's house for our cousin Rachel's college gradutation - Koen quickly became a HUGE fan of Rachel :-)

I hung out with the guys.

Our cousin Izzie was there too!

Koen's favorite ladies - Rachel and our cousin Michael's girlfriend Meggie.

Nature Preserve

They do actually have these around here - just need to be willing to make the drive out of the city!

No Training Wheels!!!!!!!!!