There are so many things we love about Illinois.  The sunrise and sunset, the restaurants, the museums, and parks but really what keeps us coming back time and again is the people.  These people are part of us. They are our friends who we love like family and our family who are also our closest friends.  We couldn&#…

We decided to do our road trip to Illinois a little differently this year.  Instead of trying to drive straight through the night and get to Illinois as fast as we could we decided to stop at many places along the way and took three days to arrive. It was such wonderful family time. We enjoyed every moment of swimming…

You "donut"  know how much we love you. Puns always make this wonderful man laugh. Father's day was very rainy, gray and cool day. We enjoyed it by spending time together indoors. It was relaxed time just hanging out together watching movies. Dylan came up with the idea of making Nate some map…

The end of the school year always comes with so many celebrations!  Aliya had her last Band concert for the year.  She loves music and really has enjoyed playing flute this year but is thinking of switching to saxophone or clarinet so that she can be in the jazz band in the future. Trent had an off season robo…