Zachary turns seven

My baby is seven and almost done with the first grade! I know we all say this but he's getting so old.

We had a low key birthday weekend. Friday night we went out for pizza downtown Naperville at Giordano's. Opened a few gifts & ate some cake.

Saturday Mark took Zach, Cameron, and 2 friends from school to a movie & restaurant. They had a great time. And props to Mark for handling 4 boys for an outing!

getting ready to open a few gifts

blowing out the candles of my masterpiece!

Lindsey's 1st birthday

Lindsey turned on 1 February 12!

We had a nice weekend/get together planned with my Mom & Dad who had flown in from Phoenix, my sister & family came down from Michigan, and my in-laws drove down from Wisconsin.

Lindsey however was not impressed & was not happy being forced to participate in present opening & cake eating. The poor little peanut ran a super high fever all weekend and I ended up taking her to urgent care on Sunday morning, where she received antibiotics for an Upper Respiratory Infection.

We made the most of the circumstances and we managed to snap a few of the necessary pictures. None of which she smiled in.
Oh well, hopefully her 2nd birthday will be better.

Happy Birthday Lindsey Lou, we love you!

The Blizzard of 2011

Mark attempting to start the shoveling. It was so deep in some spots that the snow blower couldn't get through it.
We (mostly he) had to take off the 'top layer' to get the snow blower going.






Sitting on piles in the driveway.
I have never seen so much snow!
















Climbing the mountain of snow in the cul-de-sac after the plow came through.
They had a ball!















The snowplow had to help from a tractor to clear the snow in the cul-de-sac.