Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Staycation

For spring break this year, we explored a few local attractions on Luke’s days off.  The highlight of our week was Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg.  We centered the day around the kids: they requested that we park in the parking garage, so park in the garage we did.  We ate at Rainforest CafĂ© where the kids loved watching the automated jungle animals and live tropical fish, and they each were excited to pick a souvenir from the gift shop.  We explored the mall via elevators and escalators and ended our time at Yu Island Kids, an indoor, colorful, Japanese-style moving playground!  What a great day!

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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Audrey’s 4th Birthday

We celebrated with a Rainbow Party.  She requested rainbow jello cups and a cake with rainbow gumballs on top after seeing both of these as “pins” on pinterest.

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Audrey adds so much color to my life.  I’m so thankful God has blessed my life with her!


Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Oops

So I was helping Audrey make some rainbow jello cups (which turned out to be extremely time consuming and time sensitive) for her Rainbow Birthday Party tomorrow, when I glanced over and saw Emily painting her fingernails (and trying to clean up her mess) on our leather ottoman…

Me:  “Oh no!!!  Emily, what are you doing?!?!?”

Emily:  (see below)

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