The Windy City...

We headed up to Chicago on Friday with the perfect weekend planned. We really need to stop planning... or at least come up with a backup plan. Of course things never go the way we want them to, especially in a crazy busy place like Chicago. Just out of curiosity for those of you from around here, how long does it take you to get to the temple? With and with out traffic? We drove for 5 hours on Friday... blah. Leaving on Friday was just a bad idea. Driving home without traffic took us 3 hours. Not to bad. I decided that I really don't like big cities. Stop and go traffic for miles on end just isn't my thing.

Waiting in traffic...

Kiah really was this happy in the car, she did great! Evan, not so much but he did sleep. When Kiah got tired at the end of the drive she started crying until she fell asleep. Everyone around us in the traffic jam just stared like they had never seen a crying baby before.

Saturday was a much better day then Friday. It is always nice to go to the temple. Dallas and I switched off with the kids so we were both able to enjoy a session. Dallas thinks (and is pretty sure) that President Monson's son was in the same session as him. He thought that was pretty neat. Lucky for us we saw our Bishop at the temple and he is a great photographer :) He took the top photo of our family. Makiah was sleeping in the car so she missed out on our cold photo shoot.





It was too cold to go to Lincoln Park zoo which was the original plan so we settled for IKEA. That place is huge! I should have taken a picture :) Utah's IKEA doesn't even compare :) I got some dishes for the kids and a train set for Evan's Christmas present (shhhh don't tell).