Sweet Home Chicago!

Even though it's not really home, it could be our home away from home. Since Sarah and I are celebrating our 2 year anniversary this weekend, we decided to head up to Chicago on Friday night. Mimi and Grandpa watched Reagan on Friday night and Grandma Candy and Poppa Bob had her on Saturday.

Friday night we had a great dinner at Ruth's Chris with Andy and Bridget and enjoyed a couple of drinks after dinner as well. We called it a night pretty early and got on the road mid day Saturday for a relaxing day at home After a quick trip to visit Grandma Candy to get our Reagan fix, we headed home to catch up on some movies and spend some good time together.

Sunday we headed to Great Uncle Ken and Great Aunt Vickie's house to celebrate lots of Birthdays - Great Grandma, Mimi, Mikayla, Jeff, Jenny and Kent(it was a big cake). Now, we are settling in for a nice night at home and hopfully watching the Bears win!

Our reflection in the Bean:

Before dinner with 106 ounces of beer at our table:

In their Bears outfits:

More Sunday best!

Reagan and Grandpa:

That's all!

Toes in the water

In order to get pictures on lines, I'll cover this past busy week in bullet form:

• Kenny Chesney concert with our friends Joe and Lindsey. Row 2, eventually Row 1 and Kenny signs Sarah's hat.
• Sarah's picture in front of the Tour bus makes the local paper
• Our Blog turned 1 year old! Our first post was Sept 17th, 2008
• Great weekend in Rockford with Grandma Margie
• Birthday celebration on Sunday for Poppa Bob
• Sunday night - Bears win!

Bubbles!

Kenny and Zac Brown

Bear Down!

We're trying to post a little earlier today since tonight is the season opener for the Chicago Bears and they are playing Green Bay. Football rules are in effect, so we don't answer the phone or the door while the game is on and discussions around non football topics are limited to commercial breaks only. I know it sounds crazy, but Sarah gets kinda crazy during football season. In all seriousness, we are very loyal to the Bears but understand that life goes on (but we are kind of happy the Packer game starts after Reagan is in bed).

This week was very exciting for us, Reagan continues to walk around the house and has started using more words. The oven, stove and coffee are "HOT", flowers and breakable items are "PRETTY" and anything that falls warrants an "UH OH"!

This week Mimi came home and watched Reagan for a couple days along with Great Mimi, Great Grandpa, Great Great Mimi and Great Aunt Carol. We also went to the Labor Day Parade on Monday with our friends Joe and Lindsey and their daughter and then visited their house on Friday for a fantastic dinner. It is so cute to watch the girls play together and share their love of Mickey Mouse.

A little before nap time:


With her friend Audrey at the Labor Day Parade


The were passing out Favor Ice to the kids, so I decided to make them look like Light Sabres. The key here is I use my nerd powers for good and not evil.


Her best Captain Morgan impression


A long walk around the house

Life is TOO fun!

This week sure did fly by. We finally moved back into our home on Tuesday evening after having our floors finished (see previous post). We were so happy to get home, especially since Reagan started having problems sleeping at night. Our poor little girl is growing so much and is developing so many skills, that she doesn't want to sleep. She gets too excited about all the fun things that life now has to offer her; laughing with mommy and daddy, trying to climb stairs, blowing kisses and the best yet....walking! We promise, she actually is walking, although catching video of her doing so is like trying to get proof of Big Foot. In fact, we have pictures of Big Foot below. Just joking. But I bet you looked.

Our weekend has been packed full of fun stuff. Jeff spent Saturday golfing with Bob and our friend Joe, while Reagan and I hung out with my mom. Today we had lunch at "the club" with Joe, Lindsey and Audrey. Audrey is Reagan's new BFF, she just doesn't know it yet. It is really cute to see the two of them together. We are meeting up with them again tomorrow morning for the Labor Day parade. I'm sure we'll get some great pics of them for our post next week!

For now, check out our newest pics below!

Reagan 'helping' mommy reorganize her clothes:


Yes, those are matching outfits:


With Grandma Margie:

Playing on her mat:

A few steps: