4-Points Photography

As some of you already know, my parents are phenomenal photographers. After joining a camera club for fun years ago, they have moved themselves up into the professional grade category and are now trying to make it a business! To check out their work, go here!

www.4pointsphotography.com

Easter with Family

We had a full house for Easter this year. Brian's parents came up to visit again and this time we were joined by Brian's sister, Jen, and nephew, Ryan (both pictured here), who flew up from Tampa!

It was a very eventful weekend. Highlights:

• Chase's very first swim at Elmer and Sheila's hotel pool (he loved it)!


• Coloring Easter eggs with Ryan. Ryan put the plastic decorative wrap around his first colored egg and the spoon before dipping it into the boiling water to seal it... producing an Easter egg with a long, silver appendage!


• Easter egg hunt Saturday morning at an area church. Ryan made out like a bandit!


• Yummy pizza at Gino's East!


• The Easter Bunny came to our house for the first time! He hid eggs everywhere for Ryan to find Sunday morning. Once again, he made out like a bandit!


• Grandma and Grandpa (also known as "Maw Maw and Paw Paw") brought Easter baskets full of goodies for Ryan and Chase!


• Brian's pool table saw lots of action. Ryan, the future pool shark, challenged us all to at least one round (and beat several of us)!


• Ryan was so great to his baby cousin Chase all weekend.... He took such good care of him!

Phew! I'm exhausted just thinking about everything we did this weekend! Lots of the above highlights were captured on film, so keep your eye on our Photo Album to see all of our photos from the weekend (I'll download them as soon as I can)!

"Exploring Chi-Town" Blog

So many people ask me what to do and where to go when they vacation in Chicago that I started my own little info blog of everything we know based on our own experiences in the city. It's a work in progress but if you're ever planning a trip to Chicago and want some info/recommendations, check it out (and feel free to share it with others)! Also, if you have your own input to add to any of the posts, please do (via comments)!

www.explorechitown.blogspot.com

FYI, I added it to our website's "Links" page, too.

Search Blog (I'm Slow)

So you know that box at the very top left of this page with "Search Blog" next to it? Apparently you can use that to search for specific posts by keyword! I can't believe I just now figured that out. Anyway, thought I'd pass that information along... just in case you are as slow as I am!

SQUEAKS!

Tonight Chase found something funny about my McDonald's cup full of ice, and he surprised me with a new kind of laugh! Thankfully I managed to catch a little bit of it on video. Make sure your sound is up and ENJOY!

Goodbye Gina

I'm not thrilled with this week's American Idol results. I don't think it was Gina's time. I didn't think she would ultimately win, but she was sent home too soon. Out of the bottom three she was the one I thought they would send back to safety first. She definitely deserved to stick around longer than Phil and Haley. *sigh*

And Gina was from Naperville so I was rooting for my suburban neighbor!

RrrrrAAAAArrrrr!!!!

This photo makes me laugh so I just had to share it!