Guess who was in town Memorial Day weekend? No...not Lindy and Trevor, they live here silly.
Don and Liz!!! They drove down on Friday night from Minneapolis just to see us. Well, to see us and many other people they like. But we like to think its us - is the vain? Anyway, we spent Saturday morning at the Lincoln Park farmers market. Apparently farmers markets really don't get good until later in the summer, so there was limited goodness here. But we enjoyed the beautiful weather. Not pictured is the six of us going to Chicago Pizza and Grinders for lunch, which was awesome.
To be honest, we mostly just relaxed and enjoyed genius weather with Don and Liz. They lived here, they know what they wanted to do. Don was kind enough to take some power shots of me, Caitlin and "HELLO BABY"...aka Max.
Seriously, the weather was amazing. I'll have to do a post later about the terrible experience we had at a dessert place in Evanston that tastes like fart.
This picture is about as dreamy and cheesy as precious pictures get...but don't mock. Secretly, you love it. At least it was candid and not a set up.
Ella and Heather met us up to party with D&L. It was great, they got to see Lindy, Trevor, Heather and eventually Jenna in downtown Chicago (
click here for more about that awesome adventure we had with Jenna). They also got to see Chunqing. Good times. Did I miss anyone? I'm sure I did.
Keep this on the DL (not downlow, but Don&Liz). Cute couple? Me thinks yes. They kind of thought this picture made them look special.
We stopped by Frontera Fresco for Mexican goodness and the opportunity to touch my first iPad. Me likey...both the food and iPad. Don't worry, I only bought the food.
Talk about special...especially delicious soup!
Don and I have identical cameras, so its clear that we like to take pictures and discuss them.
Finally, Caitlin and Max. The other day Caitlin complained that there is not enough pictures of her and Max together, so we are trying to be more aware of that. The thing is that when I get home, I basically monopolize the time with Max because I miss him all freakin' day. Also, the weekends are MINE! But I can learn to share if she can. Max, is it hard to be so loved?
Guess who was in town Memorial Day weekend? No...not Lindy and Trevor, they live here silly. Don and Liz!!! They drove down on Friday night from Minneapolis just to see us. Well, to see us and many other people they like. But we like to think its us - is the vain? Anyway, we spent Saturday morning at the Lincoln Park farmers market. Apparently farmers markets really don't get good until later in the summer, so there was limited goodness here. But we enjoyed the beautiful weather. Not pictured is the six of us going to Chicago Pizza and Grinders for lunch, which was awesome.
To be honest, we mostly just relaxed and enjoyed genius weather with Don and Liz. They lived here, they know what they wanted to do. Don was kind enough to take some power shots of me, Caitlin and "HELLO BABY"...aka Max.
Seriously, the weather was amazing. I'll have to do a post later about the terrible experience we had at a dessert place in Evanston that tastes like fart.
This picture is about as dreamy and cheesy as precious pictures get...but don't mock. Secretly, you love it. At least it was candid and not a set up.
Ella and Heather met us up to party with D&L. It was great, they got to see Lindy, Trevor, Heather and eventually Jenna in downtown Chicago (click here for more about that awesome adventure we had with Jenna). They also got to see Chunqing. Good times. Did I miss anyone? I'm sure I did.
Keep this on the DL (not downlow, but Don&Liz). Cute couple? Me thinks yes. They kind of thought this picture made them look special. 
We stopped by Frontera Fresco for Mexican goodness and the opportunity to touch my first iPad. Me likey...both the food and iPad. Don't worry, I only bought the food.
Talk about special...especially delicious soup!
Don and I have identical cameras, so its clear that we like to take pictures and discuss them.
Finally, Caitlin and Max. The other day Caitlin complained that there is not enough pictures of her and Max together, so we are trying to be more aware of that. The thing is that when I get home, I basically monopolize the time with Max because I miss him all freakin' day. Also, the weekends are MINE! But I can learn to share if she can. Max, is it hard to be so loved?
There are few events in this world that would justify attempting to make a cake shaped like a sombrero. The 5 de Mayo might be one. The other one would be Don Julio's triumphant birthday party last Saturday. To celebrate, he decided to have everyone pick up Taco Bell and bring it to the park to eat and go ape shiz on a pinata. Yes, it was cool.
Patrick sits proudly behind his creation. Okay, he wasn't beaming with pride. He had intended to create a sombrero hat cake, but it kind of turned out to look like a woman's derby hat with raspberry's. While we waited for Taco Bell to arrive, we discussed how we could have made the had more authentic. Learnings people. 
People started to arrive - and with them, precious Davis. Don Julio brought together about 20 people from school and church. Co mingling and food eating occurred, until disaster struck and the balloons floated into the trees. Fortunately, I was there to save the day.
Lest ye think we are wimps, just know that we take pinata busting very seriously...especially when there are 3 big prizes involved.
Birthday boy Don was the master of puppets. 
Don certainly worked me over with his skills. I swung many a time, and missed as many as I swung.
Patrick was equally without success, though he did get a decent wallop or two on that sucka.
Caitlin carefully calculated her swing, but she knew that don was no dummy. She anticipated his evil-doings, and took her chances by swinging at a different spot then where she had discovered the pinata.
BOOM SUCKA! Don't stand between a pregnant woman and her candy!!!! Serious damage was done...but it still needed some more bashing.
Cake time! This cake ended up being freakishly delicious.
27 years old and he's still got it. Nice lungs Don. 
Caitlin and I got busy doing what we do. Good luck guessing what that is.
Games were played and bonding occurred on all fronts. Caitlin practiced her mothering skills with surrogate child Davis.
And Don got busy being a kid on his birthday by playing with his new toy truck. Happy Birthday Don. What would I do without you? Probably go to Taco Bell alone, which would just be plane sad.