28th of June

Grayslake celebrates July 4th the first Saturday before that date. So we had early fireworks this year. After Miles' party we rode our bikes over to Central Park to watch the show.











Hope you have a happy 4th!

Miles Birthday Party!

How old are you Miles?


It's my birthday! I'm excited!


Ready to eat, but Miles wants to know "Where's the cake?"


Miles' favorite, marshmallow peeps! A special cake made with love.


Make a wish!


Present time...


Glad everyone is enjoying Miles' presents!


Fun and love!


Thanks for a great Birthday Party everyone!

Early Birthday

Because his Babi and Grandpa Wyckoff were going to be on vacation on Miles birthday we set up a meeting with them in Des Plaines at the site of the famous (but never visited by us yet) Choo Choo Cafe.

Here a model train brings you your lunch.


Miles loves it!


Ella and Miles ride in the free kiddie train ride that goes back and forth.


Walking with Babi and Grandpa to the park.


Babi enjoys the swing.


I enjoy the presents.


And the cake.

More Miles

Everyday Portraits

Hair a mess, clothes and face covered with lunch, but they're happy and they're beautiful!

Picnic for Karen and Hadley

Here are 3 generations of women who have been friends for a long time, their daughters/ d-in-laws and their granddaughters. This is not all of the clan though!

Jason's brother on TV?!? Well, maybe streaming video...

So I was watching the primary results online via CNN.com (since we don't have extended cable), and I called my brother because Ella wanted to talk to him. As luck as it:
a) he's in Minneapolis
b) he randomly went to the Obama rally tonight
c) I was watching cnn.com, which had a feed of the rally
d) he was sitting in camera view.

Now granted, I couldn't make him out (see screen shot), but we tried our best. He waved. He put his hand in front of the flag. He took his shirt off (not really). Alas, our desire for Scott to get his .15 SECONDS of fame was no match for the grainy streaming video. We had a chuckle nonetheless.

Picnic