Bathtub = 1....Lucas = 1/2 a tooth....

Poor baby slipped in the bathtub last night and cracked half his front tooth! It looks terrible - the tooth was already growing in crooked so I think that makes it looks worse...little man can't catch a break this week - fever, cough, and now down 1/2 a tooth...ugh.

Helping Daddy....

Lucas loves mowing the lawn!

Progress...

Time for some "before" and "during" pictures of the house we are renovating...

Dining Room

Upstairs bathroom

Living Room

Drywall starts going up on Monday - can't wait! Estimated moving day in about 5 weeks...any volunteers? :-)

Cyclocross...

So the past couple of weekends Nate has been doing his cyclocross racing...this past Sunday he came in 2nd place out of about 100 guys! He also took the leader jersey!

So proud. Hoping to check out his race in Beverly this weekend with the boys.

Balance.

I love a good, balanced day. My day yesterday was just one of those days. In the morning I had some me time. I am in a photography club that meets once a month - yesterday morning we headed up to Glencoe Beach to photograph the sunrise. AMAZING.

Nate and I then took the kids to the Midnight Circus (not really at midnight) - the Circus in the Parks. It was so cool and the kids loved it. It definately appeals to adults as well - so much fun. Definately go if you can! We got to reconnect with some friends we just don't see often enough - Joel, Sherri & Dario. We had so much fun - thanks for inviting us!

Then at night my niece, Kacie, babysat the boys so Nate could go out to dinner with friends.
We went to fin sushi bar in Ravenswood - so good!

We started out with the bacon wantons - never had bacon at a sushi place, but these were amazingly good - bacon, cream cheese and celery wrapped in a wanton.

The sashimi was so amazing -so creatively displayed too!

Love a balanced day - me time, kids time and hubby time. Ahh...bliss.

Chicago Gourmet

My sister and brother-in-law were so kind to invite me to the Chicago Gourmet with them yesterday. They were working the event and I just got to have some non-kid related fun! I had no idea how cool this event was!

The setting was amazing at Millennium Park...and you couldn't ask for a better day!

They give out a wine glass with a plate that wine glass can rest on. You walk around to each tent and samples wines, champagne, vodka, tequilla, etc...and also some AMAZING food that the tops chefs in Chicago prepare....

Each tent is decorated differently...some go all out (Target's tent below...the circles are canisters of spices)

In the chef tasting pavilions they had 3 chef tables set up. My brother-in-law, John Hogan, made an amazing seafood salad...you can tell by the line to get into his tent it was a huge hit!

The crew below working the Keefer's table...

Chef hard at work....

A couple of the other chef tables... Prairie Grass

Naha....

Then John did a demonstration on stage. Lin Brehmer (from WXRT) mc'd. The other chef is Tony Mantuano from Spiaggia. They were all quite entertaining. What a great chemistry they have on stage!

Great pic of Kris and John!

John and Tony

Tony, John, Kris & Lin

Me & Lin Brehmer

Sarah Grueneberg was in the audience...she is another chef from Spiaggia who is on this coming season of Top Chef...she wouldn't say if she won or not...

Overall I had an AMAZING time...thanks Kris & John for inviting me. It was so good to do something fun like this that wasn't about the kids....just what I needed. You guys are the best! xoxo

Photo Sessions...

I've been been busy doing lots of photo sessions the past couple weeks...stop by my photography blog if you'd like to check it out.... http://kimgayeskiphotography.blogspot.com/