Our fam's new car, Liam is perched in the backseat
The family room in our hotel for the weekend
My cutie husband getting ready for dinner
Me on the Riverwalk
Will on our balcony
The bedroom in our hotel
On our way back from dinner this huge fountain had a light display to music.
Shirt and hat we got for Liam
One mirror in the bathroom had a tv in it! So cool!
Will driving into the cityWill has been working so hard and so much lately, I wanted to do something special for him! Since we can't go on a vacation for an entire week this year (because of vacation time being used for classes) I planned a long weekend in Chicago. We were sad to leave Liam but he did great at my mom and bobster's and we left without tears! yay!
We arrived at our hotel Friday late morning (the drive was so quick!) We were able to stay at the Elyisan Hotel (we booked with luxuryhotelsofchicago.com and got a GREAT deal!) Our suite was beautiful and huge and super modern. I would totally recommend this hotel, they had wine and chocolates and hand written notes for our us upon on arrival. The staff also doesn't accept gratuity.
We walked around and shopped and got a couple little things we had been wanting (Will a northface hat and shoes) and myself a trench coat and perfume- will's pick from Barney's)
We went to dinner Friday night at Carmine's- delicious Italian food!
Well Saturday morning we decided to grab Chipotle for lunch and go to Navy Pier. Since we walked like 7 miles on Friday, and navy pier was 1.5 miles away Will wanted to drive. Well we parked in a 15 minute stop to run in and get our food and apparently you must have your flashers on while in a 15 minute spot so our car got towed! It was not funny then but after about an hour we were laughing about it! pretty quick turn around for me. Here we are pounding the streets of Chicago looking for the impound lot. We never made it to Navy Pier... haha!
Well our parents are so sweet and my car was techincally my dad's and the same with Will's truck. So everything in my car looked like Craig Perkins was the owner and everything in my wallet says my name is Alyssa Laing...so we had to pay for the tow and Dad had to fax a notarized letter saying we had permission to have the car for them to release it! Dad was so quick- way to go Dad!
We went to Dinner at Tavern on Rush Saturday Night and to this awesome theater to see the new Pirates movie and to Ghirdelli for dessert! Yum!
Sunday morning I was able to get a massage which was wonderful and we headed home to get Liam. We were so excited to him and likewise!
Liam had an ear infection which we think he is pretty much recovered from but I'll take him for an ear check this week.
Well we have been wanting an SUV for sometime and planned on getting one anytime. So after the parking fiasco in Chicago Will decided we needed our own car! So Monday morning we went to Honda (I call the whole place Honda Pilot) and the Lord was totally with us because Will used to work there (Enterprise is inside of the building) so we got such a good deal! Praise the Lord! He has been so gracious to us. Marriage and Life and Parenthood has it's struggles and Will and I are just so blessed by each other's care for each other and support of those around us! The Lord is so good!
We are super thankful for this exciting time in our lives.
Monday afternoon we celebrated our purchase at the pool and we grilled out and cooked, just the three of us Monday night.
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