Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Summer 2018

As always, this spring and summer were filled with a lot of fun. It has been a very fun year now that both boys are bigger, more active, independent and have a lot of fun playing with each other. We had a lot of fun "mommy day" Friday's (trying to enjoy some of the last of our days knowing Zander starts kindergarten in the fall) as well as a lot of fun filled weekends. Our spring began with Easter at Grandma and Grandpa's with Easter egg hunts and spending time with family and friends. We had a fun trip to St. Louis to visit friends. We then spent a lot of our spring at T-ball with Zander who had a ton of fun with his friends. It was fun for him as well as Zaiden with plenty of little siblings to play with during practice and was a nice opportunity to enjoy the spring/summer nights outside. The highlight was going to a Sox game with friends.  Our summer was then often spent with weekends at the pool and the boys loved the community pool in our new hometown. Zander really made a lot of progress with swimming and turned into a fish. Zaiden loved to follow his lead and had a blast as well. We also went to 2 waterparks and loved going down the slides together. We spent the 4th of July with grandma and grandpa and cousins where the boys turned into thrill seekers and loved the rides which followed up later in the summer with a trip to Santa's Village. We also had many trips to parks, zoos, museums, baseball games as well as enjoyed having visitors. Here are some of the pictures to highlight our summer fun (unfortunately, many photos were lost  on my phone so not able to show all).

Rainy family Cubs game (we had fun anyway!)

"mommy" zoo day

A sick day turned into hiking day

Feeding goats in St. Louis 

Aquarium with friends 

Our last full mommy day at the Arboretum 

Beach day

Zaiden at his first Cubs game 

T-ballin




Cubs family day

Farm with Papa

Legoland with friends (and of course loving the rides)

Pirate's Cove theme park

T-ball day at Sox park with his BFF