A year in review....part 2

End of November 2014
Bahamas trip!!

 Ha! I found the picture from Audrey's little birthday party!!

 Here we all are getting ready for our Dolphin Experience!

The Dolphin Experience was super fantastic!

 The whole family

 Both girls at the top of the Surge

 Cruising around on the crazy river

 The whole crew getting ready for the crazy river

 How cute are these rainbow bikini girls!!

Darren feeding a ray....though lesson learned: let go of the squid or your hand will be crushed in the rays mouth

 View from our room

I think this is a picture of each of them doing this crazy ride.  I did not participate in this fun!

December 2014

Had the girl's Hip Hop Dance recital, performed in a play, went into Chicago to see the city all decorated for Christmas, and went to MS for Christmas.

 Our house!! Finally took the plunge and went all in on lights!

With their dancing buddies Maya and Dylan

The girls were in A Suess production of The Sneetches and The Grinch.

 It got cold!! And we had a bit of snow.

 My tiny dancers

 We made gingerbread houses

 I love me some four person Hadden selfies!

 The girls in front of one of the decorated window's in the Macy's downtown.

 Letters to Santa

 First time ice skating!! It was at the outdoor ice rink at Millennium Park - just under The Bean.

Holy Cow!! Outside of Harry Carey's restaurant!

 Our fancy Christmas Eve dinner in Naperville - Audrey was drinking sparkling apple juice!

 Opening presents on Christmas day

 Obligatory Christmas morning PJ picture

 Max the cat is always a huge hit with the girls!

Our dressed and Naked wines!!

 Family photo

Audrey is just so cute!!

And that completes 2014! (though I will start with New Year's Eve with the next post)

A year in review.....Part 1

It has been brought to my attention that I have been a total slackerdoodle regarding my blog.  So in an effort to catch up I am going to hit the high points.  It has been one doozy of a year!!

March 2014:
We moved to Naperville, IL

March - May 2014
Already summarized through Easter and swim team but thought I'd put a couple of Easter pics - especially since I love how my hair looks!

June 2014
End of School (though I feel like I may have posted about this already, but am too lazy to look back!) and Beach Trip to Gulfshores AL with my side of the family

 Field Day at school - all the Kindergarten kids wore yellow

 How cute is Audrey??

Last day of Kindergarten

The whole gang - complete with our matching T-shirts!

July 2014
Beach trip to Hilton Head Island and a quick trip down to FL to see my BFF Stacy and SeaWorld

End of July 2014

Had a super fun visit from our friends from Zachary - Elizabeth and Lauren Bradford - and went into the city to see Navy Pier and the Museum and the zoo.

 Love this picture of the girls by the river in downtown Naperville

August 2014
Did the (kids) Spartan Race with our favorite family up in Naperville the Kuntz family, went to Wrigley to see the Cubs, and had a visit from Papa and Weecie where we went into the city to do an architectural boat cruise and the Sears tower.  And I let the girls dye the ends of their hair with Kool-Aid.....it has still not totally come out of Audrey's hair as of March 2015!

End of August 2014
Girls started First Grade at Fry Elementary

 This group will later become the Puff Ball Crew!!

September 2014

Cheering on (from afar) the Noles and a super fabulous girls night out in the City seeing Zac Brown Band at Wrigley Field.  And the Cookie learned to ride her bike!

October 2014
A visit from John and Jane and Halloween

November 2014

Girls turned 7 - what in the world?!?  They had a dance party for their birthday....sadly Audrey was sick and missed the party.  Though we did have a little party for her at our house a few weeks later (though I cannot currently find any of those pics!)

 Group shot - which I used as a Thank you note for the girls.

Went to Atlantis in the Bahamas for Thanksgiving with the Hadden family - which is so many pictures that I will start there next time.