08.04.08
urgh, take 2 for July’s festivities!
well i had written up this whole post and i’m sure you’ve guessed it by now- it crashed and i lost it all. So this may be a bit more abbreviated than i had originally intended- sorry about that…
so we’ve been fairly busy over the last month or so- just doing the usual visiting family and friends… spent some time in elizabeth, climbing at the palisades, visiting renee in champaign, hitting the racetrack to name a few…
we got trin and ben for a weekend in early july and we ended up having a very full weekend! we took the kids climbing at uncle bela’s gym (which they LOVED and we could barely get bennett to stop climbing!), had a playdate with the blackburn kids, and hit the brookfield zoo, and we can’t forget getting cici’s pizza- it wouldnt be a visit without cici’s!
My mom and little sis came in for a wonderful weekend of girlie-ness! We hit Wicked the musical downtown, made fun faerie costumes which you’ll see some of below, and went to the Field Museum to see the mythical creatures exhibit. I didn’t get any photos in there, but i was able to expand my wing library with all the wonderful moths, butterflies and dragonflies they had on display.
This past weekend I convinced Kathy to let me take the girls out for a faerie photo shoot of their own. We needed some fun pics of them for my book i’m working on..
After the shoot and a trip to the pool, we had one more photo sitting to get a cute shot of the all the kids together in their matching outfits Marge got for them a while ago. The last photo is of steven and shannon enjoying the spiderwick chronicles field guide, our inspiration for the morning shoot 
