Egg Coloring

Over the weekend we all sat down and had some family art time. We each had to color in at least 2 eggs. here are the results.

Zach's Eggs	Meg's Eggs	Mom's Eggs	Dad's Eggs

Vacation Day 5

Wednesday morning Chris and the kids joined Grandma Judy and Aunt Julie on their trip to Pointe Betsie.

Elizabeth stayed home to pack up for our vacation w/in our vacation at the Crystal Mountain Resort. As soon as we checked in we put on our suits and headed to the water park. For a break, we did the Michigan Legacy Art Walk, which was alot harder than we had expected. Then we did the Alpine Slide. We rode a ski lift to the top of the mountain and rode the slide down, it was really cool.

Vacation Day 3

Monday was a relaxing day. We spent most of the day at the cottage. For dessert we took Great-Grandma to get ice cream at Riverside. That night we watched the sunset on the beach by the Pointe Betsie Lighthouse. Meg and Zach each made artwork on the beach, the difference in the 2 pieces is pretty comical.

Zach Describes His Painting

Sunday afternoon it was rainy and down right nasty in the Chicagoland area, so we stayed inside and the kids did some painting. Zach had a very involved story for his painting involving: a person, a tornado, monsterland, a cowboy, a shark, a daring escape, and a little boys imagination.

Meg also had one of her beautiful and colorful flower paintings.
Here she is describing hers.

Zach, Doggy Doc

This weekend we headed over to the Hammel Family zoo to escape the cold (-22 with wind chill yikes!). Meg and Zach had a great time playing dress up. Meg was a doctor working hard on a young horse. Zach after saving a dog's life went back to working the phones as the Zoo Director.

We spent most of the rest of the weekend indoors. so on Sunday night we had our neighbors over to play a little Wii bowling.

Let It Snow, Let It Grow

Sunday we went to the Garfield Park Conservatory to check out their holiday flower show. The show featured beautiful white poinsettias, other white blooming plants and bulbs, and plants with silver foliage. The conservatory is having its 100th birthday soon, so they had the kids make birthday hats. We also took some photos for the Christmas card and enjoyed the break from the cold.

Visitors from Cali

Last week we had crazy weather. It rained every day. Thursday we had winds up to 70 mph and too much rain. Our backyard was actually flooded. We had a little seepage into the basement, but at least we didn't lose power in the thunderstorms (lots of people did).

This weekend Aunt Margaret and Allison came to visit and check out colleges. Saturday we took them to the Niki in the Garden exhibit at the Garfield Conservatory. Sunday we toured Northwestern University and then went to see Blue Man Group. Meg came along and loved it.

Today was Meg's open house at school. Tuesday will be her first day of school.

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Meg with a cicada

Welcome cicadas! We've got lots of cicadas here, but we're being told this pretty light for the 17 yr cicadas, so we're expecting more soon. Meg is loving it. She is always covered with cicadas when we go outside now.

This weekend we kept things pretty low key. Saturday's soccer game was rained out .Sunday we went to IKEA and then went to a bbq. Monday we made our very own art garden.

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Little Artists

We had a busy week and didn't take any pictures. So lets take this opportunity to show off some of the kid's art work. The pictures to the left are from Meg. She drew them at church and then colored them in when we got home. One is a self portrait and the other is Zach in the morning.

Want to see more of the kids artwork?

* Meg's art gallery (click here)
* Zach's art gallery (click here)

Have a nice week everyone.

A N"Ice" Visit

Grandma and Grandpa Mclean Came up for the Annual Ice Sculpture Festival in Downers Grove. MEg and ZAch had a great time showing off all their favorite sculptures.