Summertime, Summertime, Sum, Sum, Summertime

Well, it looks like another month has gone by since the last time I blogged. I follow blogs of some other people who seem to find time to blog every single day or at least, every couple days. I wish I was that dedicated. The few hours of time I get to myself after Olivia goes to bed at night, seem to be spent doing other things like crocheting, perusing facebook, or just vegging in front of the TV (clearly all very important things! ha ha!).

In any case, there's a lot to catch up on from the past month. Let's start with our Memorial Day Weekend trip to Springfield, Illinois. We had a last minute change of plans when we learned that Yusaku's grandmother (his father's mother), whom we had just visited on our trip to Japan in January, had passed away. I am so glad that we went we did and that Olivia and I got to meet her (see the post about our visit here).

Yusaku and his parents flew to Japan for the funeral, so obviously he wasn't able to come with us to Illinois. My parents, who had originally planned to drive separately, rode along with Olivia and I and we stopped halfway there to spend the night in Indianapolis. I wish we could have joined Yusaku, but it just didn't seem very practical to take Olivia on such a long plane ride and mess up her schedule with the fourteen hour time difference for such a short trip.

We got to Springfield around lunchtime on Saturday. We had a great time visiting with my grandma, aunt, uncle, and cousins. Sarah, who is getting ready to move Chicago, was actually there looking for apartments that weekend, so she took the train down on Sunday so she could visit with everyone. It was really nice to see her and everyone else since we hadn't seen them since Olivia's Baptism.

Here are some pictures from our trip.

Olivia and Grandma at the hotel

Olivia taking a bath at the hotel

Olivia visiting her Gram at her apartment

Having a serious conversation with Daniel at Kaitlyn's house

Enjoying the porch swing at Aunt Patty's and Uncle Rick's

The whole gang at lunch on Sunday

Olivia and Aunt Sarah

I love this picture of the three of us...might need to frame it! :)

Olivia and her godfather/cousin, Daniel

Olivia and I at the "beautiful" Springfield Zoo ;)

All the cousins recreating a photo from our childhood

Sitting on a turtle (though you can't tell) - another photo recreation

I'll continue sharing about what we've been up to this past month in the next post.