Trip to the Shedd Aquarium

The same week as Lambs Farm I was feeling daring and decided to take Josh and my niece Luz to the aquarium. I was actually pretty excited for Josh to see everything bc this was a very big "Finding Nemo" period in Josh's life. It was the only thing that he wanted to watch and he loved it so much, granted we never let him sit through the whole thing, so he kept seeing like the first 30min or so over and over. Excitement???
Enthralled in the coral fish tank

Luz had a pretty good time too.

Checking things out

When we went into the new coral reef exhibit and came across the huge shark tank Josh got so excited. We sat there for a good 10mins watching the sharks.

Nemo's or mo as Joshua calls them. We took a lot of pics of Nemo, but I will spare you from all of them. This one turned out the best.

Cool Jellyfish

Luz and a huge stingray

Trip to Lambs Farm

Lambs Farm is a cute little place to bring the kiddos. It has a petting zoo, a carousel, bounce house, train and a bakery! It's actually only 15min from my house but I have never been there before. The week after the 4th of July my sister, who at the time was Josh's babysitter while Jeff and I were at work, took a weeks vacation so.....I decided that since I had the opportunity to be home the whole week with Josh that we would do fun things that we have never done before. Lambs Farm made the list and I am glad that it did bc it was actually a lot of fun and it was cheap which is always a nice plus. Josh waiting to board his first train ride.
On the train, not quite so sure about the ride.

Extreme close up

Joshua's first carousel ride, I think he liked it

I don't really know what is up with the "Flock of Seagulls" hairdo here.

Hanging on

A cow, duh

Watching the goats

Enjoying some rainbow sherbert at the end of our trip at the farm. It was a really great day together and I am glad that I finally got to check out Lambs Farm

4th of July, Better late than never!!!!

The last couple of years it has sort of become a tradition for us to host a 4th of July party at our house. Usual suspects at the party are my siblings and cousins and this year we had some great family friends and neighbors join in as well. Lots of good food combined with a bunch of pyromaniac guys= a lot of fun!!! I think the kids had fun too!!!! Josh, Gabriel and Frankie
Josh, Jocelyn, Gabriel and then Frankie and Jordan in the back.

My little cutie pie!

Josh and Uncle Isaam

The kids took turns riding in the wagon

Josh and Jocelyn got a really big kick out of playing in the rocks

Pyromania at it's finest

The guys were starting to get a little out of control and started to get a little to close to the girls comfort zone in the garage

One thing that is not too smart is a bunch of pyros that love to do practical jokes. Here is Jeff frantically dodging a lovely firecracker of some sort that was mysteriously thrown by Isaam!