Julia's birth hospital

Julia was originally from Danville and she wanted to see the hospital where she was born. We have always talked about going there, but today it finally happened. We stopped on our way to Charleston. It was really neat seeing the hospital because it was so special to Julia. She was adopted on Christmas Day 1996. What a great gift that was! We are so happy that Craig adopted her! She is such an amazing girl! We love you Julia! (Oh, and her brother Ethan is a pretty amazing guy too and we love him lots too!)

Julia's 14th Birthday

Happy Birthday, Julia! We celebrated her 14th birthday with a steak and crab leg dinner at home. She wanted brownies for her cake so we made Gheradelli double chocolate brownies. She also went to lunch with her Dad today and then went ice skating with all of her friends at Millenium Park.

Dinner with The Millards

One of Craig's best friends (Jon) has kids that are close in age to Julia & Ethan, but they moved to California. Jon still lives in Chicago, but goes back and forth between CA and IL. His kids were in town visiting so we finally got them all together for the first time in two years. We had dinner at Lalos and the food and service were terrible, but we had fun hanging out with them. After dinner we ate brownies that Meghan made, ate popcorn and watched the movie Salt - great movie!

Baking chocolate skillet cookie

Julia had her friend Kayleen over for a sleepover while they are on winter break. We ordered pizza and they made a chocolate skillet cookie that Julia got for x-mas. The girls made the skillet cookie and even let Ethan help out. I forgot to take an after picture. Oh well.

Early Christmas

We actually celebrated Christmas a little early since we will be in Charleston on Christmas day. We woke up and opened presents while listening to Christmas music. Julia got a Coach poppy bag, instyler hair straightener, Betseyville weekender bag, clothes, PJs, headphones, Bath & Body Works stuff, perfume, earrings and a few other things. Ethan got x-box 360 (for Craig and Ethan), a skateboard, clothes, PJs, guitar book, guitar double stand, device that turns an acoustic guitar electric (he has both types of guitars), boots, x-box games, and a few other things. Craig got leather gloves and a nice scarf from the kids and I got a leather jewelry roll and a clarisonic mia. Craig and I will exchange at my parent's house. I hope everyone had a nice Christmas!!

Ethan's Orchestra concert

Ethan plays the cello in the orchestra at school. He's also in pro arte which is a group you have to try out for. He's really good at the cello and the guitar. Sorry the pictures are not the best.

Rebar at Trump Hotel with Allison, Scott and Johnny

Craig and I went to dinner at Smith & Wollensky and then met Allison, Scott and Johnny at Rebar inside The Trump Hotel. We don't get to go out with Allison & Scott as much since they have their beautiful girl Cora, but we make up for it when we do go out. We had such a blast! It was fun hanging out with Johnny too. He used to live here and moved to CA last year. He was in town for his friend's wedding.