Chicago

We had a great weekend last weekend in Chicago. On Friday night Josh and Doug and I went to "Top Golf". For those of you who have not been there it is this super fun driving range. It has computerized balls and targets and it keeps your score when you hit the ball. You have to try to get the ball in to certain spots and you can play against other people. It was a great time.

On Saturday the boys (Doug, Josh, and Jacob) went to Lego Land in Chicago. It is a really amazing place with rides and everything imaginable "lego"

Grandpa Doug and Jacob outside Lego Land. then Dad and Jacob and Daddy with a life sized Darth Vader.

Jacob LOVES Batman. So it was pretty exciting that there was a Batman there.

There was a whole jungle with animals made of legos

They also did the whole city of chicago. This is the John Hancock tower downtown

This big spider was part of the Harry Potter exhibit.

The picture below is made entirely of Legos

There was a room where you could make cars. Josh made Jacob a car and it won every single race. I guess not surprising when you see how much bigger it is than all the other cars!!!!

We met at the zoo in the afternoon and this huge grey back gorilla was just laying in the window.

there was another gorilla that was sitting in the window up on a log.

At the gift shop Grandma and Grandpa got Jacob a new truck that he really wanted. At the end of the day he did not want to put it down and fell asleep with it in the car.

While the boys were at Lego Land the girls went to The American Girl store. We were there for over 2 hours and had lunch and got Olivia a new doll. There are some great pics that I will post when I get them from Mary Jane. This is how many packages we ended up with!

This is Molly. It is Olivia's "look a like" doll. It has blonde hair and blue eyes like Olivia. Her lovely braids are courtesy of our sitter Maddy. The bracelets and headband were made from a craft kit for the dolls by Olivia and Grandma Diane.


This past weekend was Jacob's first visit to Kinnick stadium. He had gotten up super early that morning and was tired and crabby. Josh got $200 for our tickets to the game and we took the kids to Wal Mart for toys!!!