{"id":599,"date":"2008-06-21T08:45:13","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T13:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=599"},"modified":"2008-06-21T08:45:13","modified_gmt":"2008-06-21T13:45:13","slug":"A few pictures from our stopover in Chicago...","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=599","title":{"rendered":"A few pictures from our stopover in Chicago&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, there are a zillion pictures from our trip and of course, I&#8217;m way behind.&nbsp; The trip was great, the kids were amazing travelers, I got to spend great time with everyone in my family, and we did some fun stuff.&nbsp; We got back at 4am on Thursday morning, and believe it or not, we&#8217;re back on the road this weekend, just for a quick trip to visit Brian&#8217;s cousin &amp; his family outside Nashville while Brian does a race today.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>But the reason for this post!&nbsp; We stayed with my friend Michele in Aurora, IL on Tuesday night, and the kids burned off some of their restless car-supressed energy on Wednesday morning before the marathon drive back.&nbsp; She got some great pictures, and she&#8217;s already resized and uploaded them for me \ud83d\ude42&nbsp; Whew!&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><strong>Morning tea &#8211; Josiah, Michael, Analise &amp; Emma<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i145.photobucket.com\/albums\/r230\/kackertfam\/20080618002.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Polar Bear Swim in the backyard pool<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i145.photobucket.com\/albums\/r230\/kackertfam\/20080618011.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I a monkey!&quot;&nbsp; He&#8217;s hanging on the crossbar over the ladder, 6feet up.&nbsp; He also hung over the climbing wall, 8feet up.&nbsp; I was crazily hollering for him to get down while Michele caught this cute picture \ud83d\ude42<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i145.photobucket.com\/albums\/r230\/kackertfam\/20080618027.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Bruise Brothers climbing the wall.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i145.photobucket.com\/albums\/r230\/kackertfam\/20080618030.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Happy time with Playdoh<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i145.photobucket.com\/albums\/r230\/kackertfam\/20080618039.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Analise and Emma on top of the 5ft cat climbing tree.&nbsp; <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i145.photobucket.com\/albums\/r230\/kackertfam\/20080618042.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Michele and a quiet moment with the boys (there weren&#8217;t many of those!).<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i145.photobucket.com\/albums\/r230\/kackertfam\/20080618058.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Surveying the situation from the playhouse.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/i145.photobucket.com\/albums\/r230\/kackertfam\/20080618026.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, there are a zillion pictures from our trip and of course, I&#8217;m way behind.&nbsp; The trip was great, the kids were amazing travelers, I got to spend great time with everyone in my family, and we did some fun stuff.&nbsp; We got back at 4am on Thursday morning, and believe it or not, we&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-9F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}