Friday, July 29, 2011

Wiggs Family Vacation: Northern Style

This past year, we decided to try something different and vacation up north, instead of doing our regular beach thing. We started our vacation in St. Joseph, MI, where my life-long friend, Jessica lives.

It's a BEAUTIFUL beach town with a lot to do with young kids. Syd really enjoyed it and I LOVED having a few days with my best friend and getting to be a part of her life.

Here is Syd's self portrait during the road trip.



On our first day there, the girls decided to have a spa day, where we got our nails done. I wish I had taken a picture of the crazy-cool flowers Sydney had painted on her toes.




Our girl picture:


The boys' picture:


The next day was Father's Day, so we got up and did our traditional Father's Day breakfast: Beignets and Coffee. Here's a very proud Daddy:



A few other things we did while in Michigan.. PLENTY of time at the fountain area (Syd's favorite place), the beach, a Kid's funhouse and some shopping around the downtown area.


While we were still in St. Joe's, Zach and Josh drove over to Chicago, where Zach got to check something off his life's to-do list... go to a Cub's game.


Syd lost her first molar while we were in Michigan. She was very excited to see what the Michigan tooth fairy brought.


Jess is pregnant with her first baby, a sweet boy, so I had to take some maternity pictures while we were there.


So, after we left Michigan, we went to Chicago, where we spent a couple days. The biggest reason for our Chicago trip was so that Syd could visit the American Girl store. We stayed at the Wyndham, and spent a LOT of time at the American Girl store.


The rest of time we were in Chicago, we hustled to make sure we could see everything we wanted to. We went to the Navy Pier, Gino's Pizza, tried Chicago-style hot dogs, took a boat tour and much, much more.


Here a couple of my favorite family pictures from the trip:

1 comment:

Susan said...

Love it!!!! I'm glad you guys enjoyed it. I had no idea Zach was a Cubbies Fan. Even Lily has a Cubs hat :)