The Langel Family

This was Maya's favorite part of the whole trip. She absolutely loved going to the pool especially going down the slide. She went down...

The animal kingdom was one of the last parks that we went to. There was a whole dinosaur part which Ethan of course loved. He also was jus...

After a long day at the park the kids enjoy a bubble bath

Erika, Mark, Eric, and myself went to Universal Studios one of the days during our stay. The kids stayed back with my parents because there...

One of the mornings before heading to the parks we had a character breakfast at Chef Mickey. We had a buffet breakfast during which every 1...

On the first morning we were at Disney World we went to the Magic Kingdom. We made sure to get up early and try and get there as early as p...

We went to Disney World (thanks to my parents!) for one whole week. My parents and my brother and sister came as well. Ethan drove to florid...

Eric's aunt has a pool in her backyard and invited us to come over one weekend. The kids jumped right in the pool. Maya liked playing ...

Eric's family was here the first week of June for a family graduation party. Over the hot hot weekend we went to downtown Naperville to...

This was the first day that we were able to get the pool out this summer. Ethan and Maya stayed in the pool for about three hours. This ye...

Since, I have not posted since Ethan's birthday about three months ago I decided to compile everything that happened in the spring and p...

Ethan turned five years old on March 21st. My family was able to come over and celebrate his birthday, again. Of course they went overboar...

This year Ethan had his fifth birthday party at Monkey Joe's. We had never been there before but, the kids had a blast. Brett, Frank, ...

Joe and Maren are expecting a baby any day now. A couple of weeks ago Eric, Ethan and I went to Iowa to celebrate their baby shower, Maya st...

I had made the mistake of telling the kids that my parents were coming over to see them. So Ethan and Maya grabbed their chairs and decided ...

Maya Grace turned two years old yesterday. It is amazing how time flies by. She is coming into her own and definitely has her own personal...

We had Maya's Birthday at our house this year. we had some friends and family come over to help her celebrate her day. Of course, it had...

While Ethan and Eric were outside shoveling snow Maya and I were making cupcakes to take to the babysitters to celebrate her birthday. Maya...

Last Wednesday morning we woke up to a quite the snow storm. It was more snow than I have seen in a long time. We had school off on Wednes...

For the past three weeks Ethan has been taking Skiing Lessons. This is the first day that I remembered to take a camera. He has improved qui...

Two days after Christmas we headed to Iowa to have Christmas with Grandma and Grandpa Langel. After the eight hour trip there the kids were...

This year we stayed at my parents Christmas Eve, which was easier than going back and forth from our house. The kids loved it and with the ...

On Christmas Eve we went to Church and then headed back to my parents house for dinner. Ethan couldn't contain himself so he was able to...

On Christmas Eve we went to my parents house. It was the perfect weather to be playing outside. It was warm but there was plenty of snow. Th...

These are the first christmas presents of the season for Ethan and Maya as you can see they were quite happy with the gifts. Molly and Jack ...

The week before christmas we went to Santa's Breakfast at my dad's club. We ate so much food, ethan was especially excited about th...

It has been an annual event to go to my dad country club to decorate Gingerbread houses. Every year it has been one of Ethan's favorite...

You will notice there are only two pictures of the Langel family putting up the Christmas tree this year. This was the calm before the stor...

On Saturday we woke up to Ethan flying through our door screaming that there was snow outside and asking if we could go and play out in it. ...

Last night was Halloween and we lucked out there was not rain and the sun was shining. It got a little chilly as the night went on but it d...

On Saturday night we were able to take Ethan to go and see "The Lion King" in the city. We went with my mom and my sister. I had E...

Grandma and Grandpa Langel came last weekend with Tera and Kevin. They were able to go to Ethan's soccer game and we also went picking p...

The other day we went over to my mom's house to play in the leaves since they have huge trees that drop tons of leaves, we only get abou...

Kate, Jim, and Will were able to come over a couple of weekends ago just to hang and watch the blackhawks game and have some pizza. It was ...