Chicago adventures with Grandma and Grandpa Fox!

After we had opened presents and hung out for a while we thought it would be fun to go downtown and check out the American Girl doll store. Unfortunately, Brett had worked most of the day and so it was up to me to get it organized and since I had been downtown a total of 2 times before that...I wasn't the best to for the job. BUT, we finally caught the train after standing at the train station way longer than we needed to than we finally made it to the American girl doll store an hour of walking later...yes we took the bus back to the train station and left our stroller on the bus...oops! Still it was so fun to do it together and I LOVE going to the city. So much excitement and beautiful things to see.

The next day Brett's parents and I and the kids decided to go downtown again but this time we drove. We went to the Science Center. It is the largest science museum in the Western Hemisphere and the lines proved that to be true. NOTE: Buy tickets on line and NEVER buy them at the museum. The line was awful just awful. Inside though was tons of interesting and fun things to look at and do. Jacob was very excited about the HUGE tractor.

There was a fun hands on area that we once again had to wait in line for to go into...THANK YOU Grandpa for waiting in line for that one. Giselle and most of the kids loved the water. Pick up a ball and put it in a tube and it shoots it to another area of the room. Tons of fun! Yes Giselle did get wet..so did Jacob of course!!

Jillian and Jacob really liked playing with the tractors and being farmers!

Jolie helping a very happy Giselle..she actually had the freedom to run around and play.

Fuzzy picture..but Dad really was happy to be there..I PROMISE!!!!

Sadly after this day I couldn't get our camera to work. It was giving my problems while we were there..as you can see how fuzzy this one is. Turns out our lens is not doing so well. So I don't have any more pictures but the kids and I had a GREAT time with grandma and grandpa. They got to go swimming, eat breakfast at the hotel every morning..which I loved too. Go to the movies, play dolls with Grandma and just have fun. Poor Brett, he was SWAMPED with work...December is his busiest time of the year. So he didn't get to do most of the fun stuff but he was able to see his mom and dad a little bit and we are so thankful they were able to come up and spend some time with us and see where we live now! Can't wait till we get to see everyone again!