Random house shots

Kaiky and I took some pictures around the house, ok, no only pictures of my room. And one of her in bedroom. That's pretty random to me.

This is our room. One of the two rooms on the second floor of our circa 1920s Cape Cod style house. I believe it used to be only one long room that someone divided and added a bathroom into. It's a very different layout and the ceiling is low. Initially, I hated the room and wanted K&K to share it, kinda like a Kids' Clubhouse.
But Bob had a vision and hauled our huge, 4-poster bed upstairs all by himself and cut the legs off the bed frame to make it fit. He used the extra legs to make matching side tables. Pretty ingenious. These pictures were taken on the day he presented the room to me. I was at work and hadn't seen it. It turned out awesome!


Kaiky's room is the best one. On the first floor with three windows, it gets a lot of morning sun. If the kids were to be upstairs, this is the room I would have wanted! Looks like these three are happy there.

Tuesday, August 26 - First day of school

So you may have noticed a jump in dates on the blog? Well, we moved out of Round Lake! We did it just in time to start the kids on-time in their new school. It was very exciting...and tiring for mom and dad!
Kyle and Kaiky in front of the house.

The neighborhood crew at the bus stop: Kaiky, Jordana, Kyle, Carolyn, Dylan and Ethan.

Here comes the bus!

Friday, August 8 - Party at Patti's!

We all got together after work for a Party at Patti's! We all had a blast!
I only brought Kyle's head to the party. He looks like a coconut.
Oops, there he is!
The trampoline was the hit of the evening!
Patti, me, Jen and Dory.
Patti made awesome asian salmon, pasta salad and roast beef sandwiches.
MM mm good!

Tuesday, August 5 - Go Cubs Go!

Today was a big trip to the Cubs Game with Grandma and Grandpa!

Go Cubs go!
"I'll have popcorn, cotton candy, coke and, oh yeah, a foam finger!"
Cubs win!

Monday, August 5th - Corn!

Call me crazy, but growing our own corn was VERY exciting for me. Bob planted it, I tended it and the kids picked it. It was sooo sweet and awesome. It's so fun to just go to your back yard and pick it right off the stalk whenever you need an ear of corn. Next year we'll plant more!
Kaiky pickin' corn amongst the mosquitos.

Check out all those ears!

Perfectly straight rows of kernels, no fertilizer or pesticides. I guess I'm an organic farmer!

Kyle's big birthday bash!

Kyle's 8th birthday party was one of the best we've ever had and on the lowest budget! We filled over 300 water balloons, many buckets of water and provided squirt guns and the bounce house and just let the kids go crazy! They had a great time!
Here's Kyle peekin' out of the bounce house.

BFFs Cori, Kaiky, Kyle and Chris

"I love it!!"

"ooooh ahhhhhhh......"

Happy Birthday, Kyle!

Kyle is 8 years old today! Happy Birthday!