We made another trip to Schaumburg to see the other side of the family. Bill’s nephew Eric and his wife Liz had a new baby boy in March. We had to go meet the newest little cousin, Jacob!

Jacob makes Brendan look absolutely HUGE! They do have matching red hair!

Trevor would much rather cuddle Johnny the dog than get in a picture with Uncle Steve and Aunt Beth

We had a nice dinner with Liz, Eric was in Texas waiting to be deployed to Poland (army). The boys mostly chased the dog and cat while the rest of us passed the baby for cuddles.

We didn’t get back home until after 10PM, but there was still time for hot tub. Hot tub EVERY DAY!!!

It was a beautiful day for crazy playing in the backyard. Gramma’s lawn is so soft and fluffy compared to Arizona grass. It was so humid that the bubbles would land on the grass and not break.

Samurai Trevor had to take on bubble assassination duty

Bubble mania

We didn’t do the “boys running in circles on the deck” video this time because Kieran and Malcolm weren’t here. So there is “boys running in circles in the yard” to fill in for now.

We promised some people at home that we would eat some White Castle sliders, so today was the day.

Hot tub every day! Brendan made sure it happened.

Thanks to Aunt Erin and family, we spent the day at Brookfield Zoo.

Croc doesn’t stand a chance against horde of cousins

Trevor is having a little conversation in parseltongue

I think the snake is listening

When the sculptures are more fun than seeing the real thing…

Impossible to get them all to look at the camera!

I had better luck getting 20 goslings to say cheese!

The special spider exhibit was cool, but I can tell what was Brendan’s favorite part!