Saturday, November 29, 2008

Just another day in the life of Zachary

Reading a book to himselfPlaying with his trains and trucks
Daddy's home...quick! Hide under the table!!
Soup and Bread at Aunt Krista and Uncle John's
Off to Cosley Zoo for the Christmas music and lights display
Storks lit up while the ducks huddle together at their feet

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving

After an amazing meal at John and Krista's (Dane's sister who lives around the corner from us!) along with John's brother and his family, we all went for a walk through Wheaton's campus.

Monday, November 17, 2008

Toy Testing

Zachary got to do some toy testing for Thomas the Tank Engine products today. Basically that meant that he got to go play with trial products that weren't in the stores yet and tell them what he liked about the toys. He had never seen Thomas before so this was quite a treat. He even got paid...in toys!! They took us to a wall of all the Thomas toys and told Zachary that he could pick out anything he wanted to take home. Well, he was too busy still playing so (not knowing anything about Thomas myself) I picked out the dump trucks because they had parts that move and hey, if you lose one you still have another one right? :)

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Friday, November 7, 2008

2 Toots

Tonight was all about trains! First we went to a new restaurant that just opened in Glen Ellyn for dinner with our neighbor Sherry. I've been looking forward to taking Zachary to 2 Toots since I first heard about it. It is located right next to the tracks and inside the restaurant your food is brought to you on an electric train! Zachary LOVED it!


Next we were off to visit Bob (Sherry's husband) at his train club. I've never met anyone more into electric trains than Bob. They have an elaborate display of replicated train stations and cities. Tonight was an open house so they were running the trains on the tracks. Zachary loved watching the trains go back and forth between the 2 main rooms. We got to tour Bob's latest replication project which took up an entire room!

While Mom's Away...The Boys Will Play!

Where was Mom?? I hopped on a train this morning and met my old college roommates downtown Chicago for our 5 year reunion (2 years late).
My College Roommates: Marianne, Kelly and Sarah

That was our junior year and now here we are 9 years later...

We hadn't all been together in 4 years! There had been 2 weddings, 3 kids, and at least 1 dog since then. It was so great to be together again. The day after we graduated from Wheaton we each wrote out predictions of where we would be in 5 years (2006). We not only made predictions for ourselves, but for each other as well. We finally got to read the letters for the first time with each other today. You could tell what we were passionate about then, but the letters didn't come close to the ways God had shaped our lives. After reading the letters we made predictions for 3 years from now, which will be our 10 year reunion (2011). There are a lot of changes coming up for the 4 of us so it will be fun to see what God surprises us with by then! These are awesome girls that I'm so glad to have as dear friends.

It's always an interesting thing leaving your guys alone for the day. I always wonder what they will do while I'm gone. I was thrilled when I returned home and Dane told me that he had a video to show me...

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Fall



We're enjoying fall while it's here. It was over 70 degrees today for the third day in a row. I took these pics of Zachary just before we walked to Library time with our friends Robin and Lilly.