Little Travelers

We have been quite the little travelers recently. Not meaning to, we planned two trips just a week and half apart from one another. The first trip was going to Chicago. Ricky went there for a business conference and we turned it into a family vacation. We stayed from a Sunday to a Sunday!! I needed a vacation from my vacation. Chicago is one of those trips that you want to see a lot and do a lot. Go, go go! The first 3 days Amber and I were on our own to explore the city while Ricky was at his conference then the rest of the week we got to spend all day with him. I was looking forward to that because Amber really misses her daddy during the day. Just the other day when she woke up in the morning the first thing out of her mouth was, "is daddy at work?" I replied, yes. She then sighed and said, "again?" Broke my heart. Well I digress back to the windy city. We packed in the trip, the navy pier, the sears tower, the zoo, the aquarium, the children's museum, shopping, and eating out! It was tons of fun but not a very restful vacation. Then we came home stayed a week and half and then we were off to Florida. Tallahassee to be exact. Home to the Florida State Seminoles. We went to see a football game and to bask in the glory of all things FSU. That was a very restful vacation. The only thing we planned was the football game and the rest was just whichever the way wind took us. Which included seeing and walking around the entire FSU campus and LOTS of shopping in FSU stores. We all came away with FSU memorabilia. We weren't sure how Amber would do at a football game but she did awesome!! It happened to be a noon game and boy was it hot. So the second quarter she and I took a break and went walking around where the concessions were, which happened to be under the stadium seating so it was much cooler. But the rest of the time she was a trooper and every time the warchant was played she did the tomahawk chop!

Now that we are back from our trips our fall activities have started. Amber has started ballet and is loving it (mainly b/c of candy she gets at the end of each class) :) And I have started MOMS again and Amber is liking her class she goes to as well. Tomorrow I have planned to start doing some little "schooling" during the week on days that we don't have anything else planned. I've been wanting to do this and pinterest has great sites out there with plenty of resources. But we will be going through the alphabet learning bible verses. So tomorrow and the rest of the week its all about the letter A. So i have some crafts and different ways to learn the letter A to do during the week.

Well in a nutshell that's what's been going on lately!