Places We Lived and Loved

Well - what a whirl wind that was. We spent 5 days in STL and then forced a few friends to return home with us here (okay, we didn't really force them). In the end a little over a week of vacation fun has resulted in feeling like a few weeks. My guess is it is because of the two different locations. Another result of the time spent doing many things - STL Zoo, Science Center, Boat House, Art Museum, Six Flags, going to a new fav for various flavors of Gooey Butter Cake, Family Days, swimming at Aunt B's, Coffee House play dates, trip to see the Cheese Farm, swimming at the park here and working on GS Badges are many many pictures!!

We will start with these - simple, but there is so much organization of pics to be done and this is our first day "off" vacation - give me a few....

Places We Lived and Loved........


The middle flat in this building is our first apartment - although the landwoman called it a flat, apparently technically not an apartment. Marlo was great and she kept her buildings fabulous. We had more room (1,400 sqft) in this place then in our first house (900 sqft). This was our home for 1 year, just down from the Loop, walking distance from so much and biking distance from even more. We loved it.



This is the first house BigGuy and I owned. It was super cute and comfy, but it was always too small for him. Once I was pregnant he was ready to put it on the market. Can you imagine that we put our entire family in this house for a holiday!


Okay, it wasn't snowing this past weekend, but we also didn't do a drive by of our old house. Funny, we drove by the street and even on portions of the street when we went to church - just not down the street. So this is the best pic I have easily found of our second house - the one we lived in for 9 years and had all three kiddo's.




This is SuperStars first school. Dewey International Studies Elementary. Wonderful starting place. Huge school. This is why our current elementary seems so small.


Our parish. Beautiful church. We did actually attend, but the last thing I was thinking about was taking a picture. I was all super focused on spiritual things at the moment. Okay, or I was focused on keeping Babers out of the street. So this is the best SMS pic I have - a cake that I deco'd for Babers adoption/christening.