Old Camera, New Camera

At the beginning of the summer, our friends gave us their old camera.  It is awesome and so much better than our current camera.  Since then, we have reveled in having much better picture quality.  The only thing we really use our old camera for is for videos (because it's the only video camera we have) and for outings that we don't feel up to taking the good camera, namely the beach where we don't want to worry about sand and biking to the zoo, etc.  Thanks, Butler's for the extravagant gift.  You are awesome (and missed so much)!

So here is what was left on our old camera.  I don't know how old this picture is.  There are books on those shelves and Elias has hair so it has to be OLD.  The boys were playing with all the LEGO sets. 

Do you remember when it was a thing to say, "Oh, gag me with a spoon." No? Well, me neither. 

This is from our trip to Milwaukee.  We had to get rid of some gas so Tyler could take the fuel tank off and fix the seal so we decided to cross something off the ole' Chicago bucket list.  It was rainy and a bit cold that day and the kids weren't super excited to back in the van after a very short trial at a playground.  It ended up being a fun day with a stop at a very interesting mall (which we drove under) and a tour of Milwaukee (which turned out to be unique and somewhat interesting). 

All dressed up and ready to go out for our anniversary dinner.  We went to Kiki's Bistro on the northside of downtown.  It's a French restaurant and the entire experience was incredible.  The food was phenomenal, the ambiance was quiet and intimate, and they brought us a special dessert just because it was our anniversary.  On the whole it was a capstone Chicago eating experience.

This is the best picture we have of all our children together.  I don't know why but we still haven't gotten a better one of all four of them.  We also still don't have a picture of all six of us.  Welcome to the family, Albert; we'll document your addition to our numbers eventually.