Andersonville

We love to walk around Andersonville. It's got great restaurants, pubs, antique shops, lighting stores, furniture stores, etc...We do this so often that we wanted some photos of our favorite places.

One of our favorite brunch places


Anthony dreams of George's Ice Cream...this is a shot of their chalkboard

A New Addition to the Family

We are pregnant!!  Sara is 12 weeks along and her due date is somewhere between December 30th and January 4th.  As you can imagine we are very excited.  So far Sara has been very very tired, but luckily she's had very little sickness.

We will find out the gender in our 20 week check-up which will be in August.  We've included a couple shots of the little one below.

This is at about week 8.  Sara sees a smiling whale while Anthony's first thought was a duck swimming to the left (with a tiny beak).  If this were an ink blot test what would our guesses say about us?  What do you see?

This is at about week 10.  This is less animal and more human like.  Whew.  

The Fire Win!

Our neighbor, Francis, his little girl, Madeline, Sara and I all went to the Chicago Fire vs. New York Red Bulls MLS match this afternoon.  It was great fun!  And while the video below may suggest otherwise, Madeline was really into the match and cheering (and dancing) along with the crowd for most of the time.  The Fire won 3-1. This was the celebration of the third goal:

(Sara wouldn't allow me to get her on video - you may notice an abrupt stop as I started panning to the right).  :)

Here are some photos from the match.

Taking Off and Landing

Spent some time around O'Hare last night.  Here is the whole set.  It was a beautiful night for a flight.

I tried some post processing by layering multiple photos on top of each other...

Taking the L to Navy Pier

I took some photos on the L and then around Navy Pier early Sunday morning.  I'm not sure if any of these are good enough to post to FineArtAmerica to try and sell so for now they are just on Flickr.

The L photos


The Navy Pier photos

More Wrigley

I took some more shots of Wrigley Field yesterday...you can check them out on my FineArtAmerica page.

Here's one of them:

Night Game

We celebrated our 2nd anniversary Chicago style by enjoying nachos at the Cubby Bear and then taking in a Cubs night game.  We took part in the time honored tradition of buying tickets off a scalper taking the 50/50 chance they were legit tickets...which they were and they only cost us $10 per ticket!  It was a beautiful night.  You can check out Anthony's pictures on his Flickr page.

Vegas...For Work?

We went to Las Vegas last week Monday through Wednesday for work...we swear!  Sara had a conference and Anthony went to visit a client.  It was a hectic trip and we really didn't get to see each other much even though we were staying in the same hotel room but it was still fun to travel together.

Sara got up by 5am Tuesday and Wednesday to make sure all the lyonscg conference stuff was ready to go for the day and then had dinners/events late into the night.  Meanwhile, Anthony worked on Eastern time which meant he was up by 5am but it also meant he had some free time in the afternoon to play a little poker (won $23!) and take some photos of the Vegas Strip.



On Tuesday Anthony drove the 45 minutes to check out Lake Mead and Hoover Dam.  It was impressive.