what to do?

i have to make a big decision.

the kind of decision that changes your life.

like, a major life altering, kick you in the gut, change your life for the better or worse, make you pee your pants thinking about it decision.

what to do?

can't even wait.

barclay's birthday weekend.

barclay's birthday was sunday but we started celebrating early.

friday, the two of us went shopping after work and ate some dinner together.

saturday we went to the farmer's market and ate lunch at this adorable bakery, magees. then we ran errands and went to a late dinner at raggata and went out to hugos for drinks and dancing.

sunday we went to brunch at dudley's downtown {so good! i even ate squash in my frittata. shocking!}. jennifer drove in from louisville to eat with us and it was so much fun chit-chatting over mimosas.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my roomie and bestie, BARCLAY!

take me out to the ball game.

thursday night trav, barcs and i went to the legends game. they won and we had dollar beers and hotdogs!

quote of the week...

the girls and i went to the children's museum in lex today. it's a little place but liv had a blast!

love this pic! liv walking on the moon.

playing in the "kentucky river".

lilly being such a good girl!

playing on the real life size horses.

so happy!

when we left this is what she told me:

"i have my happy face on!"

olivia kate

it's nice to know...

that i can in fact save a life.

case in point:

olivia had her first swim lesson yesterday. she refused to go with the instructor and stayed by my side the entire time. as she got a little more time to relax she became a little more brave and started to make her way down the steps in the shallow end. then....

she let go of my hand and jumped head first into the pool.

needless to say i jumped in and grabbed her by the foot, seeing as though we are at swim lessons because she does not know how to swim by herself, yet.

next time i'll bring my suit!

Chicago 2010

so let me start by saying that we had a great time in chicago!

we were only there for a short time but we got in A LOT of fun stuff.

so come take a tour of our trip with pics!

{sorry about the long list of photos. my trial on photoshop ran out and i'm too cheap to buy the real thing right now!!!}

we got in a bit of traffic on 64 so i veered off and took the scenic route down 60, stopped to take a pic of the state capital.

trav and i at the state capital.

trav sleeping! i basically drove there and back.

trav's jeep hit 70,000 miles once we got to chicago.

the willis {sears} tower.

chicago stock exchange.

lunch on saturday at the athena room. a great little greek place in lincoln park.

the art institute museum.

the "bean". this thing is soooo cool. there were tons of people trying to get photos.

our reflection in the bean.

had to stop for a jamba juice fix...i miss this place!

lego woody!

kev and i on the skydeck of willis tower.

trav and i on the see through floor of the skydeck. craziest thing ever and your stomach does a flip-flop. if that floor went out you'd totally be dead! :)

this wall is full of hot sauce. heaven on seven is a great cajun place and it was our last stop in chicago.

this trav at the end of our three day vacay! he was so tired. what will he do if we ever have enough time off of work to be gone for a week?!

so that's it!