Nine Months and Counting!

Homemade Gourmet Party

My mother-in-law Polly is a consultant for Homemade Gourmet. A food company that caters to Moms who are too busy to make dinner, and really focuses on making gourmet meals that your family will love, and not be too time consuming so you have more time to sit at the table as a family. The 4 meals in 4 minutes recipes are GREAT!! And they are freezable. Also, the seasonings are what make it taste gourmet. So Polly came into Chicago and I had a party at my house. We had a great time of socializing and eating yummy food from Homemade Gourmet. If you are interested in time saving foods for your family, check out Polly's website at: www.homemadegourmet.com/pollylilly

Princess Makenna

Makenna is all GIRL!!! She loves to dress up, wear high heels, jewelry, and always wants to wear Mommy's make-up. It's so much fun having a girl!

Daddy's Idea of Fun!

Dress Up Fun!

Peoria Time

Grandma Pat brought the kids Valentine treats

Makenna and Grandpa Lee

Baking Valentine cookies at Aunt Fawn's house.

Playing outside at the park. It reached 66 degrees in Peoria that day. It was such a tease to have weather that warm so early.

Grandma Pat with all the grandkids except Michelle.

Mae & Makenna had fun on the slides. Makenna is really going to enjoy the parks by our house this summer. I can't wait to take her there.

Baby Nash is getting SO BIG. I can't believe he is 7 months already. He looks so much like his Daddy.

Makenna had her first bath with the boys. Surprisingly she didn't ask any questions about things she saw:)

Makenna and Drew played really well together. Drew is exactly one year older than her.

Well I'm back from another trip to Peoria. I figure it's the last time before the baby comes. It's so nice traveling with just one child. And Makenna has always been such a good traveler. Not sure I'm looking forward to traveling with two kids. It is nice that my sister's do only live a little over 2 hours from me. It's been so nice for Makenna to get to spend so much time with her cousins. Also, Grandpa and Grandma Esslinger only have to travel 1 1/2 hours to see Makenna in Peoria, rather than 3 1/2-4 hours to Chicago. Brett was in Minneapolis for business this week so it was perfect timing for me to make the trip before I got too pregnant and didn't feel like traveling.

Super Bowl Party

We really thought Arizona had a chance after they scored their last touchdown and were up by three.

We all participated in the 3-D specials during halftime. Don't we look great?

We wore RED to support the Arizona Cardinals. We wish they would have won.

The awesome T.V screen we got to watch the game on thanks to the Niska's. They always throw a great party.

The Sass's got creative with their homemade cupcakes. YUMMY!!!

Our Dells Vacation

We had a great time on our vacation in the Wisconsin Dells. We stayed at The Wilderness Resort. This place was amazing! It had so much to do. There were four indoor water parks, including the largest indoor wave pool, Arcade, the Largest Play Gym I have ever seen, 3-D mini golf and so much more. We went with my sister Brook and her family. I'm looking forward to go back next winter. We got a GREAT deal on a two bedroom/two bathroom suite. Next year, I will look forward to not being pregnant and will be able to go on all the water slides.

Mae and Makenna had matching Princess P.J's

The Hurricane was the best slide. Brett, Brook and Nate thoroughly enjoyed it. I hope to join them next year.

Brett and Nate went skiing one day. Had a great time!!

This is the largest indoor play gym I have ever seen. It went from floor to ceiling and I can't even tell you how many levels there were. You could get lost in this thing. The adults had just as much fun as the kids.

Brett and I enjoyed the 3-D mini golf course.

3-D geeks!! We had a blast!

The largest indoor wave pool. You could actually get a tan in this building. They had special windows on the ceiling that when the sun came through, you could actually get a sunburn. I felt my face burning.