Party Central

Party season is upon us and we are READY!  Back to backs this weekend with Saturday's family June Birthdays and Sunday's Walgreens-friends party.  Bring it on summer!  

Ice cream and snow cones with friends at the Summer concert series in Market Square every Thursday

Almost every morning we have Luke & Claire crawl into bed with us, and occasionally I'm able to sneak out from between the two of them and go for a run without all hell breaking loose.  They do look pretty cute when they're all sleeping.

We had a perfect weather day for June/July birthdays

Brother snooze

Walker clan

Playing yard Yahtzee that Jeff & Jessica brought, so fun!

Mom getting in on the Yahtzee action

Luke was a big help

Ian playing the bean bag game with the kids

It was  also baby Elijah's first bd party!  Dug out a few decorations from the basement from Luke's 1st bd.

Luke took these pictures with the camera

Grandma:)

Claire taking selfies

Not many pics from my party with a few work friends and their families on Sunday, but it was a blast too!

London, Tubing, Camping & Father's Day

This week in June (since I am back-date posting this blog on what is today, July 31st, I feel compelled to remind myself and my readers on the time travel we are now doing) I spent most of the work week outside of London for a work trip.  The workshop I was at was held at Champney's Health Spa (http://www.champneys.com/spa-resorts/champneys-tring/), a venue made available to Walgreens Boots Alliance because of our majority ownership of their Champney's health spa branded products sold in our Boots stores.  The place was amazing, a bit like Downtown Abbey turned spa.  Safe to say our small group were the only ones working, as all of the other non-staff were milling about between spa treatments in their robes and slippers.  Even if we did have to work, the views weren't bad and I got a free massage at the end of it!  Unfortunately one of the nights I also got some sort of food poisoning and ended up spending the majority of the night with my head in a toilet.  Yuck!  The workshop was with some extremely senior executives from global that I was eager to make a positive impression on, and so I had to suck it up and turn it on the day after my little stomach issue.  I'm happy to say that my nausea retreated just in time and I was able to have a pretty solid day of impressing my superiors, if I do say so myself.  As with my trip to London last Fall, the business class air travel continues to be one of my favorite parts of the trip.

Champney's Health Spa

Formal gardens

View from my room

Front entryway

Went for a walk around the grounds the first day there

Got home Friday around lunchtime and Matt and I enjoyed a few hours on the boat together.

Farmer's Market on Sat am

After the Farmer's market we tried out the tube for the first time!

The kids LOVED it!!  They wanted more and more and more.  All three of us on that tube!

Saturday we went up to WI for one night of camping.  After a no-go situation at our original camp site in Lake Geneva (drunken site-mates), we went back to the Richard Bong Recreational Area where we had gone last Fall.

Claire helping put the tent up

It is up!  

S'mores

I think she is so cute in this picture.

Walking to the bathrooms

Our campsite

Take 2 on trying to get a good pic of these two

Sunset

Claire was just running around and singing

Me and my babies

Happy Father's Day to DAD!! sleeping in the HOT tent the next morning

Spent a little time at the beach before heading out on Sunday

Happy Father's Day gifts and cards

Mini golf

Already a true golfer, she threw down her putter and had a tantrum in frustration

Dinner at The Mean Weiner

Reuben in honor of my Dad - yum!

Presents for Matt from his parents