Illinois

My mom and I went to Illinois in August.  We arrived on Saturday and went to a nice restaurant for Henry's birthday dinner.  On Sunday, we celebrated Henry's actual birthday with a Harry Potter family party.  We got to see baby Adeline get blessed at church, and Chris was the high council speaker in sacrament meeting so that was a bonus.  We played with Jane and held Adeline while the big kids went to school on Monday. We also got to see the solar eclipse at 90% in Illinois.  Back in Utah, Jace went with Grandma Mayne, Lucian, Kolten, and Talan to see the eclipse in totality.  It took hours for them to get back to Utah- not until 1:00 in the morning! On Monday night we did Henry's birthday piñata. On Tuesday Chris took the day off.  We went to lunch at a wood fire pizza place and on a walk at a nature reserve. On Wednesday we came back home.  Our connecting plane in Chicago got delayed 3.5 hours so we got home much later than expected.  I was very glad we got to go see Chris, his family, and especially the new baby. I am also posting a few pictures of Jace and Violet playing around at home around those same dates.