Girls Weekend 2022

JJ and Crystal came to Chicago for our annual girls weekend this year! 

We spent Friday night in Downers Grove with dinner at Wasabi and drinks afterwards at the Cellar Door. It was really great weather and nice to sit outside.

On Saturday, we headed into the city for some fun! We spent Saturday afternoon doing a River North food tour. 

Stop #1 was the Doughnut Vault for a donut. Definitely one of the best doughnuts ever eaten!

Stop #2 was Lou Malnati's for pizza. I'm a big fan of Lou Malnati's, but we don't get it often because no one else likes it.

Stop #3 was XOCO for carnitas tacos. These were delicious! We were served the tacos by Rick Bayless' daughter.

Stop #4 was Club Lago for Italian Beef. Not a fan of their Italian Beef. I'm used to a more au jus type sauce, but this was more like Thanksgiving gravy. Good if you like that, but wasn't what I was expecting.

Stop #5 was Fabcakes for a cookie! Salted caramel chocolate cookie, I think. Whatever it was, It was delicious!

We checked into our hotel and relaxed afterwards. Before dinner, we walked around Millennium Park for a bit.

See that balcony up there??? That's where we had dinner!

We had dinner at Cindy's Rooftop and it was great! We had an awesome spot in the restaurant, the drinks and food were delicious and the views were amazing!

When we left, there was tons of traffic... people were driving on Michigan Ave celebrating Mexican Independence Day. People were shooting off fireworks from their truck beds! It was a little crazy! We finished up with a few more drinks at the Gage.

Another fun weekend catching up with JJ and Crystal! I love that we continue to get together every year! Definitely look forward to our weekends! :)

School pictures

We had school pictures on Wednesday. Avery set out her clothes the night before, of course. Morgan just winged it Wednesday morning. :) 

Curriculum Night

While the girls were with Matt at soccer practice, I went to curriculum night at school. I stopped off at both 4th grade classes. Both presentations were basically the same. One new thing this year is the girls are going to get letter grades on their report cards. But, they aren't getting them on their papers that come home. We still get the 1's, 2's, 3's on the papers. For the report cards, those are converted into a letter grade magically. :)

They had a couple of fun things on the walls that the kiddos did. I love that Morgan put she looks up to her dog. Ha!

Roadrunners (Black #1) Game

Morgan got asked to sub on the Black #1 team since they were short players. It was a really hot game! The girls won 2-1.

Dress code day at dance class

Avery got a special treat for wearing the correct dress code to dance class on Saturday. :) She is really loving the new tap and jazz combo class!

Roadrunners Game #1

The girls had their first soccer game with Roadrunners Friday night. They were nerv-excited for the game! :) They both played great... Avery on defense and Morgan on offense. Their team won 7-3. Morgan scored 2 goals and had at least one assist that I remember seeing. It was hard to tell who each girl was because we were facing the setting sun, so it was a lot of silhouettes! Once the sun went down, it was much easier to watch the game!

 

Labor Day Weekend

Well, we made it through the week somehow without all gettin Covid. We contained it to just Avery! She felt better before her quarantine was over... no surprise. And was really excited to go back to school on Friday. We spent the day Saturday with dance class, a little pool time and a birthday party for Erin and me at a local pizza place. My parents were in town and Brett's family joined us for the party, too. Mama Ruth even came! There was a fun old school game room and the kids all got loads of tokens. The claw machine was not rigged to lose like so many seem to be, so the kids kept winning stuffed animals!

Doing their best emoji impression

Popsicles are the best!

Her choice of picture cracks me up!

1st place!

Yes, we may have won about 20 of these!

On Sunday, we relaxed. On Monday, we had a BBQ with a couple families of the girls' friends. The kids all played really well and Matt smoked delicious pulled pork. Back to the daily grind tomorrow. Boo!