April turned the Big 3-0 on Saturday. For a surprise, without her knowing, I took her up to the Southwest side of Chicago. She had a a night of shopping, a great dinner, a late viewing of “New Moon” and an all day shopping visit to Ikea (one of April’s favorite stores).

We stayed at the Aloft hotels in Boling Brook, IL and it is a very neat hotel. Our room looked like it was furnished by Ikea so it had some interesting furniture and a comforter that I wanted to take home.

We didn’t take alot of pictures, so there aren’t alot and some of them were from my iphone.

Happy Birthday, sweetie and I hope you had a great weekend! Wish it could have been longer.

Although Ean had his party last weekend, Thursday was his actual birthday.

He got his last set of presents from grandparents and us.

Ean still wants to thank everyone for everything. He has played with almost everything so far that we have opened up for him.

Although, we were four days early, today was Ean’s birthday party. He had plenty of visitors including several aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins.  Ean wanted to have a Star Wars Lego cake and so he got one. He also received several new Lego sets, a leapster Tag reader with some books, some nice new clothes, a new transformer and several other fun things.

Ean really appreciates everyone that stopped by to wish him a Happy Birthday as do his parents.

Thanks to everyone who helped us celebrate Ean’s birthday!!

Although the color changing leaves look beautiful, the falling leaves also need to be cleaned up.

On a nice day, the family went out and raked the leaves in the yard and had a blast doing it.

Here is the photo album to shows the fun that we had:

While April and Ean headed to Ean’s school party, Ella and I had a playdate. We went to Its Playtime, a kid center that provides the space and the toys while we brought the fun!

These are some pictures of Ella in all her glory!

Although a bit chilly, Halloween was fun this year.

Ean the Vampire and Ella the Gator cheerleader!!

Here are the photos from Hallow’s Eve.