July

4th of July festivities started with some shopping at the outlet mall and trying the special Starbucks drink! We finished off the night watching fireworks at our usual spot with our neighbors!

 Nate and I had a fun night with friends at the Lakeside Festival in Crystal Lake!

Lake in the Hills Ribfest and carnival with Grammy and Grampy was a blast! Love this tradition. Jemma tried ribs for the first time this year!

We had our annual family reunion weekend with my Dad's side of the family! Nate and I had so much fun spending time with my cousins and their husbands and the girls had a blast with their cousins and bonus cousins! 

Highlights included celebrating my Grandma's 98th birthday, bowling, date night at Game Show Battle room and manicure/pedicures!

Jemma and I went to a Chicago Sky basketball game with her summer basketball camp! We got to sit courtside for the warmups!

June

 I feel like we always get off to a slow start to summer! Here's my random photo dump from June!

Birthday shopping and lunch at Oak Brook with my mom, Aunt Mar, Jade and Jemma!

Birthday dinner for me at Fat Rosie's!

Birthday dinner for me at Hardware with Katie and Lauren!

Strawberry picking at Heider's Berry Farm with Grammy!

Grammy and Grampy joined us for one of Jade's soccer games! We had delicious pizza at Little Pop's afterward followed by a campfire and smores at our house!

Jade had her final soccer game of the season with this team! Most of the team has been playing together for a few years so the end of the season was hard as the most of the girls are going in different directions for next season.

We celebrated Nate on Father's Day with his choice of dinner at Station One Smokehouse! We had to wait FOREVER but it was definitely worth it. The food was amazing.

Jemma and I went on a painted duck hunt in downtown Naperville. We found them all with the help of some Starbucks along the way.

Jade got her ears double pierced!

Jemma also kept busy this month with basketball camp through Naperville Central High School and Jade kept busy training with a USL-Y soccer team and taking summer school to bridge the gap before joining honors math next year!