I was in Chicago for a few days on a work trip and was treated to a Chicago Sox game in a Suite and had a great time.

They gave us these great t-shirts so that we would look like locals....

Poor Dad got a bummer party....we totally forgot to sing Happy Birthday to him.  But the Jimmy Johns and Cake were good so all is good right????  Not to mention a few presents.

The only way that we could bribe the girls out of the pool for Grampa's Party was ICE CREAM !!  Nana has these little ice cream cups and I don't know if it was eaten or worn, but that is what the pool is for right???

Cake and Ice Cream are done, so now onto one of Nana's backyard toys.  This may look like a great time, but what you didn't get a chance to see (next time I will have the camera ready) is seeing Mom trying to get off of the see saw.....it was GREAT !!!!

Well, our Handsome Boy has started Kindergarten and he couldn't have been more excited.  He is gone all day and does well, ok so we are a little chatty, but I couldn't imagine which parent he gets that from????  This is his Thursday uniform for Mass days.  We tell him every week that he can take the tie off after Mass, but he insists that it is part of the uniform and has to wear it.  It's funny because all his friends do the same thing.  I am sure it won't take long for them to be bored with the ties.  Poor Jenneth is lost without Tristen during the day and when he gets home it's "Watch Tristen, Watch Tristen"  She wants all his attention.

This is the first day of school and we had to take a picture of the Star Wars backpack !!!!

Now do you love the socks or what????  I tried to get him to pull them down but he thought they looked like soccer socks and said that if he play soccer in P.E. than he is ready... God love him.  I did end up buying him black golf socks so we didn't have to worry about it.

So my friend Sandy asked if I wanted to take the kids to Kings Island for the day....Yup, just us Mom's and the kids.  Not sure what we were thinking.  Did you know that you can spend 10 hours in Nickelodeon at Kings Island????  You Can !!  We did get a few hours at the Water Park, but it was so crowded we couldn't get on anything.  Thanks God for Jackie as she volunteered to go on this flying thing with Tristen as I would have gotten sick.

Here's Tristen, Jackie, and Mackenzie on one of those crazy things that brings you up to the top then drops you, and then does it over and over again.  

Just another fun filled ride at Nickelodeon.

Here's Tristen with one of those characters from Fairly Odd Parents.  At least I think that's who that is.

Mackenzie and Tristen in the bumper cars.  They fall right in that height where they are about an inch too short for the bigger rides and they were almost too tall for these, but they had a great time that that's all that matters.

Tristen wasn't too happy with Dora as she took his hat from the U.S. Open that had autograph's.  I had to explain that she was just being silly and he would get his hat back.

Tristen had his kid party delayed a bit as the first time I scheduled it was Race Day.  It turned out to be a great party and a good time was had by all.  Especially for Grampa and Jenneth who went through the goody bag and ate all the candy while everyone else was bowling.

Miss Innocent herself.....I just couldn't resist this cute picture.

So I go put a load of laundry in, come back to my room and Jenneth has gotten her little pillow, BoBo, and tucked herself into my bed.  She thought she was the funniest thing ever.  It was really cute.

Connor came all the way from Alabama to visit his Cousins.  This was after all 4 of them were in the ducktub and we were getting ready for bed.  Now I am sure you have guessed with the 4 of them, bedtime was not anytime soon.  

During one of the family dinners on Race weekend the kids had yet another pool party in Moms backyard.  Poor Jenneth got abused by everyone.  

Not sure what was going on here as it doesn't look like Molly is going anywhere anytime soon.   Would love to understand some of the conversations that these two have.

Of course now they have gotten poor innocent Connor involved.  They were playing King of Hill, but it was really funny because they are too young to realize this is what they were playing.  As you can tell, there really weren't any winners.

Here was the kids table and Connor just wasn't too sure of all of this. He was loving that the fact that the kids got their own table. 

Yes, Tristen lived to see 6 years old.  He had a great party at Mom and Dad's house.  Cha Cha, Aunt Pam, J.P. and Amy were there as from Florida.  Thanks everyone for a great party.