To Cleveland!

We attended Jackie (Tyler's cousin) and Nick's beautiful wedding in Cleveland. It was so fun to see the O'Brien side of the family. Lily loved it because there were so many girls to play with.

Posing with Bamma!

The Mayer Clan

We asked Lily to give her wedding smile and above is what we got!

Dancing with Monica

We went 2 days early and saw some of the Cleveland sights. Em, Fro, Nick and Chris came, too! Tyler and Bridget are enjoying a sno-cone at Geauga Lake water park.

We make a special visit to see GG. All of my pics came out dark. :(

Joey (Ty's godson) joined us at the Cleveland Science Center.

Enjoying the hotel pool!

The 4th

We were in Glen Ellyn again for the 4th this year. Below is Bridget and Daddy at the parade. We brought Lil to the fireworks this year. She was more interested in her glowstick and than the actual fireworks...ha!

Bamma also got her her first rollerblades. When she started to head down the driveway I got a little tear...she's not a baby anymore. She looks so big in the skates!

9 months old!

9 months old...well, actually almost 10 months! I'm a little late on my postings. Bridge learned how to crawl this month! ah! She has gotten really fast and is already pulling up on things! In the second picture you see that she has also learned to point. Her hair has gotten really thick. We've said good bye to baby food and she's onto table food. She likes it much better! She's still a snuggle bug and her sister is her fav!

Auntie Emily Visits

Another great summer week! We saw the play "The Velveteen Rabbit". It was really cute and now Lily has been asking, "Can I see that big Easter bunny again?" This was the test run to see if she would be able to go see Mary Poppins and I think she will make it!

Auntie Emily (Lily's idol) is in town. We went to the Children's Museum with her and saw the Barbie exhibit.

This one is hard to see...:(

Engaged!

Yeah! Gregory and Katie (finally :)) got engaged! So excited to have another sister-in-law and another Aunt for the girls! Congrats and can't wait for the wedding!!!

Touch-a-Truck

Chillin in the limo!

Taking a drive!

Buddies!

Their favorite was the bathroom on the RV. ha!

Bridget...asleep of course!

At our local park they have a program called Touch-a-Truck. The kids can climb on any kind of truck you can think of....limo, school bus, police car, dump truck, ambulance, bomb squad truck, and even a HUGE monster truck! Lily went with her friend Norah and they loved it!

Lake Shafer

Last weekend was the annual Mark Family Reunion at Lake Shafer. Lily was excited to eat junk food, and ride the cars and boats.

Motorcycle riding with her cousin Nathan!

Playing in the rain with her cousins Nathan and Mikey.

Lily and Jack getting soaked!

Bridget hanging out in the backpack and loving every second of it!

Riding in the pink car, of course!

The racecar!

Taking a nap!

Tyler and I anticpated many hours hanging out in Kiddieland. We did start out there as you can tell from the pictures above. But Lily quickly graduated to the "big kid rides"! She rode the scrambler, sleds, log flume and her favorite The Dragon. The Dragon is a pretty big ride. I didn't dare go on it until I was at least 10!!! But our dare devil Lily, went on with her hands up! She would giggle the whole time! We tried putting her down for a nap. When we went to go check on her, she was just staring out the window at the rides. We rode rides until about 9:45! Lily literally rode rides until she passed out in her stroller! ha!

It was such a fun year because there were 8 kids under the age of 2 1/2! Lily still has her ride bracelet on. She says she's wearing it just it case she can ride the rides!