One vacation down, one to go!!

Well.....this past week being in Chicago with family went by entirely too fast.  It literally feels like we just arrived in Chicago but now we are on our way back home.  Actually about an hour-ish outside of Phoenix right now and I am very glad to be getting back to our home where the sun shines everyday:-). Here's a lowdown on our first trip.  We went to a farmers market our first morning in Chicago and the weather was simply amazing! Later in the afternoon, we went to a celebration party for Dave (johns brother for completing his residency and now they are on their way to Connecticut for his fellowship.  Mady got lots of cousin time with her cousin Clara.  We went in to downtown Chicago one day to see Adam and Erika, so Mady got more Aunt and uncle fun time in!!:-). Mady also caught her very first fish with uncle mark and aunt TT(timarie).  She was sooooo excited about that new adventure!  John and I got a date night somewhere in there so we went to a super nice restaurant called Wildfire....amazing!! We went to see the movie Maleficant with Angelina Jolie and it was actually very good!  We don't get many date nights anymore so this was much needed:-). Our last night in Chicago (last night) we went to our traditional family favorite pizza restaurant called Aurelio's pizza, always have fun there!! Between mark and timarie's dogs, cousin Clara, and all the attention from grandpa/grandma, and aunts/uncles it was no surprise that Mady was not so happy about coming back home today. She did very well on the flight though so I was very proud of her.  As fun and nice as vacation always is; there is just nothing like coming home to your own comfy bed!!:-) we will have three nights at home until we head out to San Diego for two days and then on to LA to surprise Mady with Disneyland!!!  We are having a super busy summer, but it has been great so far!! Here is a picture of Mady on the flight home playing her games!!