Celebrating Jaz's Birthday

We celebrated Jaz's birthday at home with flowers, balloons and a cake.  The boys made cards for her and we gave her a gift card.  We had a great time celebrating her birthday.

Valentine's Day & February Photos

We celebrated Valentine's Day at home this year.  We had steak and crab legs for dinner.  We made chocolate covered pretzels and strawberries.  The boys had fun making and exchanging Valentine's with their class.  Liam made a cute bag to store his Valentine's.  

Grayson had a playdate with his friend Leo and they had fun making homemade pizzas.  

Dinner with Muellners and Glasscotts

We had dinner with some St Clement families, the Muellners and Glascotts.  We started the night at Fig & Olive with dinner and then headed to a local bar for drinks afterwards.  We had a great time catching up and even got to play some darts.

Johanna's Birthday Dinner

We had a great time celebrating Johanna's birthday at Coda di Volpe with some amazing friends!

Vail Ski Trip with the Ross Family

We went to Vail (Lionshead) to ski with our friends the Ross Family.  The first night we hung out at the condo and ordered food.  The next day we went skiing with the whole group (Phil, Kat, Logan, Pax, Craig, Maria, Ethan, Elle, Grayson and Liam).  Liam had ski school and Grayson skied with us.  At the end of the day poor Liam was dehydrated and had altitude sickness and couldn't find his instructor.  As soon as I saw him I knew he was not okay and was very worried.  Eventually we found his instructor and he told me Liam was in the level 6 class which is moguls. The coach told me he did keep up with everyone, but had to do pizzas when going down the black moguls.  I wish they would have moved him down for a little more practice on the regular mountain.  The next day we skied again with the group and Phil, Kat, Craig and I went to dinner at Montauk Seafood.  We had a nice dinner.  Our final ski day my clients Steve and Suzanne Zaruba met us for the day.  We had fun skiing with them and they were very helpful with the boys.  Overall we had a great ski trip!  We can't wait for the next one.  

Liam's Basketball

Liam had a great season with the i9 basketball team from St Clement.  They had their final game of the season and won against a 2nd grade team!  They played so well and were so happy to win the championship.  Afterwards we went to celebrate with pizza at D'Agostino's Pizza.  The boys had fun playing hide and seek tag, running around with their trophies and eating pizza.  We had an amazing team with the best coaches.  It was cute to see Coach Justin talking about Liam and giving him his trophy in front of the whole group.  Liam was so happy.  We are so proud of basketball star.  He's very aggressive and did such a great job marking his man.  What a fun season!

Dinner at Swift & Sons - Wrigleyville

We had dinner with the Rinaldi's and the Ramirez's.  We went to St Alphonsus for the first two years of school for Grayson and first year for Liam and met the Rinaldi's.  Their son is one year older than Grayson, but they did spend one year in the same grade as Grayson's birthday falls after the cut-off.  Fast forward to 2022 when I met Michelle on the school field trip to the Botanic Gardens.  Her son Leo was in Grayson's class and a friend to Grayson.  We became friends and kept in touch because the boys played JFL football together.  Somehow we figured out that Michelle and Carolyn Rinaldi are BFFs from  6th grade.  What a small world!  After figuring this out I decided we had to have a dinner together so I planned dinner at Swift & Sons - Wrigleyville.  We had the best time together.  There were lots of crazy stories told and too many laughs to count.  I'm so glad we all got together and we can't wait for the next one.