Fourth of July!

I hope everyone that reads this blog had as nice of weekend as I did.
It was just filled to the brim with relaxing....enjoying family.... spending quality time with friends...EATING....and drinking...and of course remembering and appreciating all of the freedoms that we enjoy living in our fine country.

Friday night we headed over to Moe and Jim's house for their annual Fourth of July bash.

Finnegan has taken to calling his Great GrandPapa, Papa Francis! Francis is his middle name....and calling them both Papa was a little confusing, so now we have a Papa Francis.
Here is a photo of these fine gentlemen.
There was also the awesome light up flag Moe gave Finn.....Mama's saxophone must have made quite the impression on him the other week because Finn can be found taking almost any object around the house and making it into a saxophone. He puts it up to his mouth and toots away....humming is more like it. When they picked me up from work tonight Nick had taken an empty paper towel roll and had drawn keys on it. Finn serenaded me all the way home.

Is it a sweet light up flag.....
Or killer sax?

Finn also played with chalk....


And so did his Daddy...(Mike is his brother....real nice Nick) :-)


Thanks for such a great party Moe & Jim!
And then the very NEXT night we had another awesome party to attend, this time at Erin and Neal's. Unfortunately the weather didn't cooperate as well (lame) but that didn't dampen anyone's spirits. All of the kids had a blast playing in the rain.I had a few of Erin's now famous Pink Panty Pull Downs! heh....and Finn really enjoyed seeing all of his cousins!

The Host and Hostess!

Jen is ALWAYS good for a laugh....here are her and Finn playing with the table confetti.
Note: Finn does NOT have his ear pierced...


And to wrap up the weekend Nick's Aunt Moe and Mom Kathy were kind enough to treat Erin and I with tickets to see Mary Poppins, the Musical.

It was SO SO good. You just FORGET how many amazing songs there are. Feed the Birds? Step in Time? Chim Chimeree? Just to name a few! It was colorful and bright and wonderful. The kids in it....blew. me. away. After the show we went and ate at an amazing Chicago steak joint right on the Chicago River...it was a gorgeous evening so we sat outside and took in the view. It was a really wonderful afternoon. Thanks again Kathy and Moe!

I will close the post with a great photo of Nick and his brothers...why? Because they are just cute and rarely ever in a photo together all looking the same way...or smiling...etc. This is a somewhat major photographic milestone.