Dave Matthews – Baby Blue Acoustic version (at First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre, Tinley Park, IL 9/26/09

November 27, 2009
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Mike's Favorite Day of His Summertime Vacation – October 2009

November 27, 2009
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Pictures of the Kids – Fall 2009 (partial)

November 27, 2009
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Pictures of the Kids – Summer 2009

November 27, 2009
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Labor Day Weekend 2009 – Part 3 (Abridged)

November 25, 2009

LONG delay between post 2 of 3 and post 3 of 3 of our Memorial Day Weekend adventure. In a nutshell, we went out to Woodfield and had Maggiano’s for lunch. Joshua leaked out of his diaper (pee-pee) so bad that it made a puddle on the floor underneath his high chair. I sopped it [...]

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Labor Day Weekend 2009 – Part 2

September 10, 2009

Welcome to Part 2 of 3 of our Labor Day Weekend 2009 adventure log! This part will give you a glimpse into a normal weekend day at our house, as it was our lazy day of the holiday weekend. Still tired from our day in Chicago with the Sina’s, we decided to take a much [...]

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Labor Day Weekend 2009 – Part 1

September 7, 2009

The Acton Family “North” had a magnificent Labor Day weekend filled with sightseeing, shopping, eating, and napless days for the kids. I will cover the weekend in a multi-part blog, beginning with our time with the Sina’s in downtown Chicago. Forthcoming parts will include our “lazy day” and lastly our day out shopping in Schaumburg [...]

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Five Year Wedding Anniversary "Celebration"

June 6, 2009

Yesterday, June 5, 2009, was Mike’s and my five year wedding anniversary! Congratulations to us!!! In the past five years, we have moved from Green Bay to Lake Villa and had two beautiful children, just to name the highlights. To celebrate this special day, we…………did NOTHING!!! That’s right! Nothing out of the ordinary, at least, [...]

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Lovin' Our Klean Kanteens!

May 31, 2009

As you may have read in my previous post Going BPA-free. How About You? I have eliminated all of the number 3, 6, and 7 plastics from our kitchen cupboards. Mike and I have drunk from the same Nalgene bottles (#7 plastic WITH BPA) since 2004, and after finally catching on to the anti-BPA movement we [...]

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Going BPA-free. How About You?

May 12, 2009

*This post is a work in progress…doing research and making notes here.* What are other families choosing to do given this BPA scare? As a mom of a 2 year old and a 5 month old, I’ve been doing a fair amount of research on BPA, its effects, and products containing it. I’m not gonna [...]

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