June 2017

The last day of first grade!!!!!  Summer is here!!!

We celebrated with an all school chapel and then headed off to the park with lots of friends...of course we ended the day with ice cream!

Flipping with happiness for SUMMER

We had dinner with Gus T at Chili's  He was hilarious and kept stealing Brayden's hat to put on Haddie....and Haddie could not get enough of him

We headed to Nashville for an adult get-a-way to CMA Fest!  It was a blast.  We saw so many great artists---some in bars, some at the big stage, a couple at a small HGTV venue and Blake Shelton even made a surprise appearance at a bar!!!!

For father's day we decided to get crazy, we painted daddy a grilling place and of course we painted something for each of us too!

Happy Father's Day!!

We headed to Willow Creek Church for Dad's Fest.  We were able to see Tom Ricketts speak and then enjoyed a big fest with food trucks, slides, root beer floats and more.  Aaron and Brayden even got to play in the biggest game of catch to break a Guiness Book Record!!

We went to the "drive-in" at Palatine Library to see Sing!  We made our own cars while we were there and then enjoyed watching the movie sitting in them while eating popcorn

We went to the Volo Car Museum and it was a BLAST!  We spent the majority of the day there and saw so many cool cars...here are just a few of the cool rides we saw...

And then that evening, we headed to the drive in to see Cars 3 and Mater even stopped by!

We took a trip to Brookfield Zoo--we were able to explore the exhibit Dragons and visited the family area where the kids and Aaron fed birds

We always end the day on the carousel

Brayden joined a summer swim team, Frontier Flyers.  It was awesome watching him become a stronger swimmer over the summer and best of all, he LOVED every minute of it...and even ended up with some blue 1st place ribbons!

 

She scooted while Brayden swam

And Marshall played Tball (and flirted with the coaches)

Sleeping with her brother

Haddie and Marshall did a gymnastics class...they both did well and Haddie is doing one this fall too

We were able to see Minions 3 with some sweet friends 

And spent lots of time swimming and slip-and-sliding

Marshall's soccer wrapped up

A Trip to Pirate's Cove...Brayden is almost out grown it, which makes me so sad...it truly is a fun, special place!