This year, the boys are getting just a little bit more excited about Christmas.  They still don’t totally get what’s going on, after all, my oldest is only 3 1/2 right now.  But you can definitely tell they are starting to believe in the magic of the holidays.  It’s so fun to see.  And I…

Choo choos, Christmas trees and Chicago landmarks.  My husband is a sucker for Groupons.  He must buy one a week, probably more.  Good thing, though, because he always finds great ones and we’ve done a lot a fun stuff as a result.  Last weekend the Groupon was for the Wonderland Express train exhibit at the Chicago Botanic Gardens. …

At the “Christmas Tree Patch” this weekend, Charlie and Nate had more fun driving their cars around inside their racecar shopping cart than looking at the trees.  They really couldn’t be bothered.  I spent more time zooming them around the aisles of Home Depot – “Let’s go fast Mommy!  Let’s turn here!” – the best…

Boys will be…well, boys.  The other day the boys were having fun in the neighbor’s yard after they re-discovered their “squirty pencils” in our garage.  It turns out money can buy happiness.  The dollar store sold the squirty pencils all summer (oddly, for $2.00).  My dad initially bought them a couple of these up at…

I realized today that it’s been way too long since I’ve taken any shots of my own boys.  And this one, he’s really hard to nail down.  He runs as fast as he can from my camera most of the time.  So for once, I think *not* having taken pictures of him in a while worked…