Do you ever happen upon something that just brings back a flood of memories? We have had an incredibly busy fall and I do intend to get you updated on everything that happened, but in the meantime I wanted to re-share some of these pictures of our trip to Chicago. In 2006. It's really hard to believe that it's been over six years since that trip. It's hard to believe because the time has flown and hard to believe because I've gotten quite behind on my scrapbooking!
I have spent most of my days off so far for the holidays working on getting this trip in the scrapbook. I'm not totally six years behind, but I had soooo many pictures of this trip that I simply dreaded sitting down to do something with them. Finally, after all these years I just had to get them off my "to do" list so I started working on them. A funny thing happened while I was working on them. The dread turned into fun as I remembered how much fun those ages were. Just look at CBT being amused at himself in that mirror.
And, how long has it been since James let Christopher hug him? He still tries, but James usually successfully fends him off. Maybe it was just something about standing in front of a sub...
And, how long since they worked together to wrestle a Komodo Dragon? Ok, I know I'm getting too nostalgic and that they really didn't wrestle a Komodo Dragon. You do have to agree that they were awfully cute then.
Yep, those were the days when they both were as toe-headed as they could be.
It might have been this series at the baseball game that got me thinking about posting these pictures. When we were in August, Chicago was having a heat wave...it was in the upper 90s the entire time we were there. (Part of the allure of going to Chicago in August was to escape the Atlanta heat. Got that wrong.) It's supposed to get to 20s here tonight...I'm longing for the heat of the summer already and winter is just getting here.
Can't you just feel the summer heat? Wrigley was a fun place to go, especially if you weren't a Cubs fan. They lost that day (as my friend who is a Cubs fan predicted), but it was still really neat to be there. Very different from going to a Braves game at Turner Field.
If you've never seen the "Bean" there, it's pretty cool. It's just a huge metal bean in the middle of the park. But, it's really cool because it reflects just like a mirror but with distortion. I could have done an entire album of just our pictures looking at the bean and the reflections of ourselves looking at the bean. Now that I think about it, that was a lot like an infant being fascinated by looking at mirrors. (Insert maturity joke here.)
The original impetus for the trip was to go see King Tut. The Field Museum was hosting the exhibition. The Tut exhibition was cool, but so was the rest of the museum. You could truly spend a week going through the various museums there.
Here's to my wishing for spring already and for the boys of summer to show up. I guess I wish winter away too quickly....we do have a little football game coming up. For you college football fans, Roll Tide Roll!
Maybe I'll blog about how our family watches an Alabama football game.....and then maybe not.
I wish you and yours a blessed, joyous and prosperous 2013.
