Vacation 2015

We decided to take advantage of one more free flight for Zander (lap sit) before he turned 2 so we took a long weekend over the President's Day holiday to visit San Antonio, Texas. We were more than happy to leave behind the freezing temperatures of the Midwest to soak up some Texas sun! Zander was really good on the flights and seemed to enjoy watching all that was happening at the airport as well as the take off/landing and flying through the clouds (although at one point he really realized we were no longer on the ground and got scared and repeatedly said "down, down"). We had a lot of family fun as well as a lot of good food! It was a great trip and we are now even more restless waiting for spring to arrive. Here's an overview of our trip in photos:

We had fun hanging out at the hotel pool and got to do some swimming. Zander loved wearing his sunglasses!

We had so much fun just being outside and spent some time having fun at the playground and soaking up some sunshine!

We spent most of the day Saturday at the San Antonio zoo and Zander loved seeing the animals we read about in our books and know a lot of the names of the animals. We all really loved watching the monkey's play!

 





The highlight of Zander's trip was the 3 mile miniature train ride around the park. Zander loves trains and had so much fun. He pointed out every train gate he saw go up and down and screamed "tunnel!!!!!" when we passed through the tunnels. We were hoping to take him for another ride on our last day, but we got rained out.

We ran a (somewhat rainy) 5K race at the art museum which was a lot of fun and a good way to meet new people. Zeb lead the Gilliam family and pushed Zander in the stroller including up and down the hill  and helped me place first in my age group (he finished 5th in his which was great impressive as he pushed the stroller and talked to Zander the whole time!)

 

We had a lot of fun on a boat ride through the river, it was a good way to see the whole river walk and down town area as we were not able to walk the whole thing

 

 

We also made a visit to the Alamo

 

We got rained out on our last day in San Antonio but ended up having  a lot of fun at the Children's museum before flying back to Chicago

 

Watching the planes!

 

Snow Day!!

Super Bowl Sunday brought us the blizzard of 2015. We were lucky enough to be bundled up at home to watch the snow fall all day. The total brought us 19 inches of snow!! Zeb and Jasmine shoveled about 4 times during the day just to keep up with the amount of snow which only followed by a night of wind blowing and drifting to do it all over again on Monday morning. Luckily, CPS cancelled school so Zander and mom got to stay home for an extra snow day! We had some time to play in the snow both days, but there is only so much you can do with 19 inches of snow and a 3 foot toddler and a 12 pound dog! We had fun anyway....but now can't wait for it to melt. Maybe then we can make a snowman:)

 

We hope our new tree (Murray the Maple) makes it through this winter

 

 

We woke up to drifts of snow in our backyard

Having some fun all bundled up