Showing posts with label Chicago. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicago. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Midwest summer

This summer, we spent some time in the midwest with family between Wisconsin, Chicago, Indiana, and Ohio. We kicked off the trip in Wisconsin and then spent time in Chicago. Jeff had to head back to Utah after that first weekend and I had some work trips so the kids had a great time with family between Wisconsin, Chicago, and Indy. We all met up about 2 weeks later in Ohio for the family reunion. 

Emily & Aaron went to Grandma's house in Wisconsin and Aaron lost his first tooth there. I was in Florida for meetings and Jeff back in Utah so we both saw this over FaceTime. He was pretty excited to have finally lost his first tooth. 


No trip to Ohio is complete without a trip through the brew-through.

On the way from Ohio to Chicago. 

We got to hang out with Uncle GT at the airport while waiting for our flight as he was waiting for his. 

Thursday, June 1, 2017

Road trip out of Raleigh to visit with family

First leg of our moving road trip out of Raleigh was to DC. There we saw loads of Jeff's family and had a great time at his cousin's wedding. 
After DC, Jeff flew back to SLC and the kids and I began our road trip west. Next stop after DC was Ohio where we met up with my grandpa who is 92 years old.


Some interesting storm clouds. Really only experienced some rain. (Kyle took the pics, I was driving.)



My Aunt Theresa arranged for us to meet up with her and Grandpa for lunch together at Cracker Barrel. It was nice to catch up with them in a small setting since we so rarely get that opportunity and when we do, it's in a much larger group. 



After lunch, we spent the afternoon in Toledo at the Children's Museum which was pretty amazing. And our museum pass got us free entrance. Really a great, unique museum. 

Late afternoon, we headed toward Indy to see Kristin and her family. We had a wonderful day there together playing, walking through some woods, eating ice cream, grilling and just chilling. 

From Indy, we headed toward Chicago. We arrived in time to have lunch with Jeff's Grandma Edith. We had a nice afternoon together by the pool while the kids swam and we got to talk and catch up in person. 

From Grandma Edith's, we headed to Tommy's place to catch up with my family there. Jeff flew in that evening and met up with us for the final leg of our trip (flying to SLC). We had a great time chilling with my sisters and brothers and nieces and nephews and my mom came down from Wisconsin as well.
Emily and some of her girl cousins packed in a jeep. 


Trevor and Kyle were BFFs and always together. Trevor is the same age as Aaron, only a few weeks younger, so it was sweet to see Kyle and so sweetly brotherly with Trevor. 

Kyle's selfie at the pool

Cousin chili and ice cream dinner courtesy of Grandma

Baby Mia. This was our first time meeting our sweet little niece. 

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving time. Travel time. Chicago and Wisconsin tour for us. I flew with the kids in to Chicago and Jeff came in from Salt Lake City after being there for two weeks. I failed to take very many pictures because I had a horrible cold that pretty much knocked me out for the first part of the trip. Nonetheless, it was nice being together again and getting to see our families and spend some time with everyone. 
Going through the airport. Everyone had a job since I couldn't carry all the bags myself and tend to Aaron. Even Aaron had a job. 
Aaron holding Olivia at Grandma's house. He loves that cat and would pick her up any chance he could. Not sure Olivia liked it that much. 
The kids with all of their cousins on Jeff's side. 
Chilling at Grandma's house. 
Sleepy. 
Sleepy.