Wedding Weekend

We spent this past weekend celebrating in Galena, IL for Jazzie's sister, Nellie's wedding. We made the trip to Galena on Friday to help get things set-up and have a pre-wedding celebration with family and friends. Saturday we celebrated the big day as Nellie and Chris got married. It was a beautiful wedding at a beautiful location and we are so happy for them both. Zander was a trooper throughout the whole weekend and thought he was pretty cool wearing his little tuxedo (thanks to the Bunch family for letting us borrow it!!). It was a very busy weekend and Zander is a very busy guy these days, so I did not get as many pictures as I would have liked, but here are a few:

 

More summer fun

After a busy and fun filled Labor Day weekend, we realized our summer has come to an end. Jazzie is back to work at the schools and Zander will be going back to daycare next week -our daycare has been closed for vacation the past 2 weeks so Zander had some babysitters as well as a few days with Grandma Lynne and Zeb. We had a ton of fun this summer and it is amazing to see how much Zander has grown over the past few months. He is now a really good walker and is really good at climbing and even starting to run......uh oh!! He is also very vocal and says many words and will point out of lot of things he sees (airplane, bus, truck) and ask for things (shoes, outside, etc). It is also fun to see him problem solve things and is very smart and sometimes creative (example.....I told him I was going to put the peppers that we just picked away so he picked them up and tried to hang them back on the plant!! good thinking!!)

We had a fun day with his best buds again including a hike (of course playing with bugs and worms...gross)
followed by a trip to the park and out for ice cream

Zander attempted his first "Race" with a half mile this Labor Day weekend although he decided he was not having
fun and only walked a small part of it and wanted to be carried the rest of the way......maybe next time!



We love spending time playing outside in our backyard and Zander loves to help water and
pick vegetables from our "garden"

We have been enjoying many areas of the city including the many parks, pools and fountains
and even found some time for a beach day!