Day 182

Abby and I shared a very dimly lit lunch at Red Robin after a power outage.

Day 181

After years of trying, I finally made it to the Stray Dog.

Now, I love that place.

Day 180

If that was my job, those windows would just stay dirty.

Day 179

I met the Laughing Cow cow at the Self Workout in the Park in Chicago.

Day 178

Some of my beautiful day lilies.

Day 177

Here she is!  The ever awesome Abby scaling a rope wall during her Mudderland 5k.  She did a great job and had so much fun.  I was proud of the crazy nut!!

Day 176

Some of the pretty hollyhocks outside of the Stray Dog in New Buffalo.

Day 175

There are so many things that I like about Chicago.

One of them is the Bean!

Day 174

This is called the "Scare the crap out of grammy" shot!

Day 173

I love these.

Day 157

Natalie loves the pool this year.  She is our own personal fish!

Day 156

Keeping the flowers looking nice is a full time job with the heat these days.

Day 155

I have no idea why and no time right no to figure it out, but Blogger is refusing to let me post any pictures.  My step dad is in the hospital, so I don't have the time to figure out why right now.  Blogging is on the low end of my totem pole at this point.  Just keep checking back and at some point, you'll have lots of pictures to catch up on.

Day 154

I saw Dolvett Quince, one of the trainers on the Biggest Loser tv show at the

Self Magazine Workout in the Park yesterday in Chicago.

Day 153

Grammy and the graduate!

Day 152

Natalie is graduating from preschool today.  It is going to be really hard to be a teacher and not a grammy for that ceremony.  I just can't believe how fast time is going by.  It doesn't seem possible that she could be this old already.  Grammy loves you, baby and is so proud of you!!