A quick stop in Chi-town...

Nana and Papa just spent the last two weeks in Italy, to celebrate 35 years of blissful marriage!

Today is their actual anniversary,

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY you love birds!

On the way back to UT, they had a layover here in Chicago and we decided to go get a room at their hotel and spend 24 hours with them...

We went to dinner and then back to the hotel to swim... Avery had been talking about swimming for two days straight! He was so excited!!!
It was all he could think about...

And the pool was AWESOME!!! It was huge! And so warm! I imagine it would cost a fortune to keep that pool heated like that!

You could swim under a bridge and it would take you outside. It was so cool! The heat coming of the water would make this thick steam and then the snow falling made it really magical...

This is the only pic that we took with our camera, but Nana took some with her camera that really show the pool better.

Even KASEY got in! She wasn't going to until she saw the pool. She went back up to the room and got her suit on...

(She doesn't like to get her hair wet with chlorine water because it makes it very unmanageable)

This is Avery after he found out we weren't going swimming again... Awwww, poor little guy!

So we had breakfast this morning and tried to fit in as much talk as possible before they had to leave...

As we dropped them off at the airport, Avery was very sad and said he didn't want his Nana and Papa to leave. He said "Why can't Nana and Papa come to our house?"

It was so sad!

It really is sad to think of all the time we have lost with our families, but especially for Avery, he NEEDS his Grand parents, and his Nana and Papa, and his cousins...

Hopefully soon, hopefully soon...

We came home and put on all of our gifts from Italy. Kasey wouldn't get in the pic because she had just gotten out of the shower and didn't want to take a pic without getting ready!

So we couldn't wait...Troy is wearing his new chefs hat that he will be expected to wear whenever he is cooking...(Other clothes optional)

And his darling Italia sweat shirt- Avery in his Ferrari hat and his Le-Gondole shirt, so dang cute! And me in my apron which I will probably NEVER really cook in because I don't want to get anything on it! And showing my beautiful glass pen that you dip in ink...

I already tried to write with it and it was really cool, but a lot of work! I couldn't imagine having to write page after page like that. Thank goodness for bic! Also the darling hat that I'm wearing two pics above, was also from Italy.

Thank you Nana and Papa! We love you so much and miss you ALWAYS!!!