Summer Vacation, Part 1

It's been more than a month since our adventurous summer vacation and I'm just now finally getting around to posting pictures of our travels! It has been a crazy summer- our two week vacation was fun, but we were constantly on the move! From Georgia to Illinois to Wisconsin to Canada and celebrating birthdays and national holidays in between, we certainly had a grand, but exhausting, time. Then we returned home to jump right back into work. I can't even explain how busy things have been around here, but I think they're finally starting to settle down.

So we flew to Chicago, as has been tradition for the past 3 years, to visit with my parents. Before even getting on the plane Jason was pretty sure this was the last trip we'd be making for a while. Only problem was it was just the beginning...

Never travel without your
"Go Go Babyz" Travelmate

Also- never travel without your iPad

Yeah, our flight was only just the beginning. After several delays and a detour in flight, we landed late in Chicago and only had time to go to bed to get a decent sleep before taking off the next morning to visit Jason's family in Wisconsin (it actually works out nicely that my parents and his dad are only about an hour and a half apart). We had a lovely time visiting with the Floods, and getting to eat one of our traditional faves- a ponzarotta! That would basically be a deep-fried calzone. Yum!

Cousins!

Second cousins!

Ponzarotta

Nonny and poppy have chickens!

Any eggs?

Maybe the egg was "staged", but it was exciting anyway!

We spent one night in Wisconsin then traveled back to Naperville. I dropped Drew and Jason off at the "green house" (Drew's name for my parents' house, to differentiate it from the lake house) before making a trip to the same urgent care clinic we visited with Drew on his first trip to Naperville. James had a horrible case of hives!

At least he's not bothered by it!

We never did find the cause, but they came and went throughout our entire trip. Thankfully they didn't seem to bother him much!

We enjoyed one nice full day in Naperville at the Morton Arboretum- another yearly tradition. We just had to get pictures of the boys in the little Adirondack chairs. And of course explore all the other fun the garden had to offer! We had a few showers, but that just added to the fun!

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Frog pond

Musical flowers

We found more chairs!

A new yearly tradition

We finished off our Naperville stay by celebrating Drew's birthday! We were happy that Jason's mom, dad, and aunt (and respective family members!) were all able to make it down to Naperville for the party!

He certainly is a traveling boy!

We kept the party nice and simple because as soon as we cleaned everything up, we hit the road for our long journey north...