Chicago Babymoon

Last weekend, Todd and I got to take an adults-only trip with some friends to the Windy City! We counted it as our last "hurrah" before Baby Girl makes her debut in a couple more weeks (hopefully). Many, many thanks to Aunt Ally, Uncle Randy, and Grandma V. for watching the boys while we were gone! These are just a few pictures from our trip... Todd and I down at Navy Pier. Every Saturday night during the summer they have fireworks down at the pier so we all went down and enjoyed the fireworks and the beautiful skyline. Such a crazy change of scenery from home! Ryan and Shanelle down at Navy Pier also...

This is kind of a random picture, but just thought I'd give you all an idea of how HUGE and torpedo-like my belly is these days. I still have 8 weeks to go, and I'm already getting the "Oh, any day now, huh!" comments. Let this be a lesson to all of you reading this: pregnant women do not really want to hear that because basically all we hear is " Dude! You are freakishly huge!" I'm allowed to say how huge I am, but no one else may comment!

And what's a trip to Chicago without some Chicago-style deep dish pizza??? We did a lot of good eating on our trip, but my favorite was probably the pizza at Giordano's. I make sure that any time I ever go to Chicago I have their pizza. Totally worth the 2 hour wait! I can say that because we weren't waiting with kids!

Darin and Michele walking dinner off (and maybe dessert too, can't remember!) along Michigan Ave. We stayed at the Inn of Chicago and the location was perfect for being downtown. We were basically just one block off of Michigan, so it was easy to get everywhere we (the girls) wanted to go (shopping).

We had a great time with friends and it was so nice to come home and see the boys. I feel like I am officially ready to start preparing for this baby to come now. I sort of have been in denial about it really happening so nothing has been done yet...no name, no clothes, not sure where this baby will be sleeping...Hopefully we'll have every bit of these 8 weeks left to get it all figured out!

This Week at our house...

We made our first trip out to Pumpkinland to pet the puppies... ...and feed the goats and llamas. We'll be making lots more trips as the weather continues to feel more and more Fall-like, I'm sure! I'm a little sad that Baby Girl won't be born in time for a newborn pumpkin picture at Pumpkinland like we have for Jackson and Deacon.

And Jackson started pre-school this week! He seems to really like it a lot and I can honestly say I've been enjoying a couple quiet mornings a week with only a sleeping Deacon at home. I think Jackson's favorite thing at pre-school so far is the fun train table. Whenever I drop him off, he immediately heads there and basically only looks up long enough to say "bye, Mom".

Can't wait to get to school!

This kid does his best to foil any and all attempts to take his picture these days, hence the evil/mischievous grin. But it's still kinda cute!