enJOYing the little things . . .

Long Overdue . . .

for J&S. I'll let the pictures do the talking. A picture is, after all, worth a thousand words.

I had the honor of having Grace of Momentary Bliss shoot with me. These are her amazing images.

Hope your week is off to a great start!

City Excursion

Back in February Rocket turned three. We asked him what he wanted to do to celebrate his birthday. Naturally, our train fanatic asked if we could go for a train ride. It was his first ride on the Metra, and we took it all the way into Chicago. 

We asked Rocket what he wanted to do once we got into the city. His older siblings tried desperately to convince him that he wanted to visit a museum. Much to their dismay, he announced that he wanted to visit the Sears Tower. (And, yes. We refuse to call what is now the Willis Tower anything BUT the Sears Tower. After all, Ronald and I were both born in Chicago and have lived in the area our entire lives. It will forever be the Sears Tower.)

We went all the way up to the Skydeck. It was the kids' first time to go up, and they loved it! Something new to both Ronald and myself are the see-through ledges on the west side of the building that protrude out and over the city. At first I wouldn't go on (scary!), but I couldn't miss the photo ops with the kids. Cadence, Clark, and Ronald loved being out on the the ledges.

The birthday boy would have no part of the picture taking. He wouldn't even walk out onto the ledge. In the middle of my picture-taking, I eventually found him doing this . . .

Silly boy. I love him so.

Clark turned five almost three weeks ago. Blog post about his special day to come, hopefully before the end of this month!