We had a great Halloween. I took the kids out for pictures but as you may notice one cutie wanted her picture taken and the other didn’t. Addyson enjoyed the make-up part of being Snow White almost as much as the dress.
Hayden was a storm trooper. He is all about being a bad guy.
This is a true picture of my kids. Oh how I love them!!
Within four days Hayden has lost two teeth. He came to my classroom and asked me to pull them. He wasn’t excited either time, but has really enjoyed the money afterwards.
I left Addyson with my phone the other day after school. Later I found some interesting pictures on it. I love the people I work with.
We had a water leak in our kitchen a few weeks back that had caused a mess in our house. We haven’t had a kitchen for almost a month now. We have made our dining room a make shift kitchen. So we are hanging out it the bonus room a lot.
A few weeks ago we went with our church youth group to Lambert’s and Begg’s Farm. For the kids the bus ride was just as much fun as where we go.
We didn’t have to wait to long to get a table. Of course the highlight of the meal was catching the hot rolls.
After lunch we headed to Beggs Farm. Grant was not able to go with us because he had lots of chores he had to do.
The kids had fun on the air trampoline. This was their favorite.
On our last day we headed out for doughnuts. I think we found the best doughnut place in the city. These were amazing!!!
We went to the Children’s museum for the morning before catching our train later that afternoon.
I didn’t realize how strong Hayden was!
Addyson climbed up the net tunnel but then got scared when she had to go across to the other side. Grant had to go in after her and rescued her.
They had an incredible building area. Grand and Hayden hung out together building two separate things. Grant was building a skyscraper and Hayden was building a space ship.
Addyson and I were behind them building with wood. She build the fort learning how to use tools and the correct way to build. We had a blast and stayed her for about forty-five minutes.
We then headed to the water room. I thought it was cool that they had rain coats for the kids to wear. Even though we all cam out pretty wet.
Addyson found a play kitchen where she was making popcorn like her Dede.
We had an amazing time in Chicago and would go back anytime. It was good to get away for a few days.
It was my intention to take a cab to Lincoln Park but Grant thought if we walked two miles yesterday then we could do the two miles there and the two miles back. That was the best decision because we could walk along the beach for a good part of the walk. You can see in the kids face they could have stayed there all day.
We did finally make it to the zoo. I loved that it was free and that you could walk in at several different points.
It was a gorgeous day outside and was so much fun walking around looking at animals. The gorillas were a crowd pleaser. The baby gorilla was adorable and I could have watched them for a lot longer.
I think these pictures are hilarious.
The kids found a place to climb and have fun. Unfortunately, right after they started climbing a school group came in . I don’t think I have been on the other side of a field trip. It wasn’t fun. 
All the places to eat in the park were closed for the season so we decided to walk back and eat a big lunch/supper at the cheesecake factory. I took a picture of our dessert because it was huge and delicious.
I think the four plus miles we walked that day worn most of us out!
We started our morning off with a trip to Walgreens to get snacks aka breakfast. These snacks lasted us the next two mornings. We then took our second cab of the trip to the aquarium.
We got there just a few minutes before they opened so we took some crazy pictures with the Chicago skyline in the background.
Hayden was super excited about this day because we would get to see sharks. We sat down and watched them for awhile.
Thought it was funny that both of the next two pictures the animal/cute girls were posing for pictures.
After the aquarium we decided to walk the two miles back to our hotel. Along the way we were able to stop at two places I really wanted to see. Our first stop was Grant Park.
We had trouble getting around the park because they were getting ready for the Chicago marathon that was to take place that weekend. We finally did make it to the fountain. It was pretty impressive.
We then made our way to Millennium Park. By this point the kids were tired of walking but we had only gone half of the way. Luckily I had a small snack for them to give them the energy to make it all the way back.
In this park we visited the Bean. It was fun to take pictures and goof off.
As we continued to walk back to our hotel there was a Starbucks lady handing out free samples of an iced coffee drink. She promised there was no caffeine so we grabbled it continued on our way.
For supper this night we hit a local hotdog place call Downtown Dogs. We grabbed the food to go and ate in our hotel room. The hotdogs were good but their french fries were the best!!
