Kendall's Pool Flips!

Kendall's getting really brave in the pool - check it out!

Florida for the Fourth!

Kendall and I came to Florida with Grampa for our annual fourth of July trip.  It's been a nice relaxing trip, full of firsts!

Snuggling with Daddy the day we left

Rode the bus to Chicago!

Waiting for the parade to start!

Waving to the pagent princesses!

There were a lot more where that came from;)

This is as close as she would get to the subway man...

Hanging with her new friend!

Ice cream every night while you're on vacation!

Waiting for the fireworks while playing with all the glow stuff from Googa!

Heading to the pool;)

Too much fun to make it through dinner...

My little beach girl!

I think we'll do this every year!

From last year:

Venice!

Natalie and I headed to Venice for a night.  It sounds like a short trip, but we arrived at 930am on Friday, had the full day and didn't leave until 730pm Saturday.  So, it was plenty of time.

The Alps

Our first look at Venice;)

Words don't give justice to many of the pictures, so I'll just let you browse.

The buildings were a little close together!

Gondola parking only!

An Italian Weiner!

Traffic Jam!

Govt building, St Mark's Basilica, the Campanile

St Mark's Basilica

The Basilica is attached to the Doge's Palace

Having lunch on the canal - our first Venetian meal

It was SO delicious!

The Grand Canal

Inside St Mark's Basilica

View from the top of the Basilica

The Campanile

It's a clock - 3:40...

The entire inside of the Basilica is tiny mosaic!  Can you imagine the time that took??

Extremely steep steps

We ran into a wedding outside:)

Part of the Doge's Palace

The Bridge of Sighs

I caught this guy taking this picture...

The leaning tower... of Venice??

Happy hour at the hotel

Nighttime Gondola ride!

Grand Canal at night

Venice's only 5-sided building

The Rialto Bridge

Our Gondolier;) 

The Square floods at nightly high tide!

Crazy night clouds

Limoncello!

Tour of Doge's Palace

Chomp!

All in all, Venice was AMAZING.  The tips told us to get lost (wander around), which we did and LOVED it.  Also to stay at least a week, which baffled us.  We weren't sure what anyone would be doing there for more than 2-3 days... anyway, definitely go if you have a chance!