Visiting Melanie and Dennis

Our final post of vacation photos. On our way home from Indianapolis we stopped in Chicago to visit Mike's sister Melanie and her husband Dennis. (Plus their two cats, Oreo and Keebler.) Good conversation and great food from Portillo's -- plus fun with cats!

Hayley and Oreo. 

Mel and Dennis.

Hayley playing doctor with Jonah, the stick pony.

Collin and his new pet doctor kit.

 

Hayley and Keebler.

July 4th: Day Two

And now, pictures from the big bash on the 4th at Mark & Steph's house.

Ta-da!

Steph doing bubbles with the kids.

Hayley and Collin.

Collin had to ring the doorbell every time he went in the back door.

Mike, Sherry, and the kids.

Pat and Norm.

Da guyz.

Ta-da!

Pensive Hayley.

Ready-for-a-nap Hayley.

Mike and the kids.

Ben reading to Hayley.

Mark cleaning up after a beer disaster.

Mike and Hayley.

Collin and Hayley eating brownies.

Mike and Collin.

Fireworks!

Collin saying goodbye to Pat.

Hayley saying goodbye to Pat.

Hayley saying goodbye to Norm.

July 4th: Day One

We spent the Fourth of July holiday at my brother's place in Milwaukee for a big Miller family get together. Here's what we did on the first day (actually, July 3rd).

Dennis and Melanie.

Mark fogging the yard for mosquitoes. 

Hayley playing with Sneakers the cat.

Hayley wearing Mark's Colts hat.

Stephanie, Melanie, Pat, and Mike -- with Dennis and Norm in the background.

Norm and Pat.

Alec and Hayley. (I think Alec is eying Hayley's brownie...)

Ben, Melanie, and Mike.

Steph and Dennis.

Norm opening Father's Day presents. 

Hayley and the cat again. (One of these two is not as happy as the other...)

Alec playing with Hayley in the sandbox (horseshoe pit).

Ben playing with Collin.

All the kids playing in the sand.

Collin and Hayley riding Mark and Steph's motorcycles. 

Hog on a hog.

Brothers.

Guys with iPhones

I'll let the pictures speak for themselves...

Thanksgiving 2009 (Part 3)

Our final batch of Thanksgiving pictures, from Mark & Steph's house:

Alec and Melanie.

Thanksgiving dinner, with Melanie, Dennis, and Ben.

A post-dinner nap, with the Hauser brothers and their grandpa.

Collin and Sneakers, sharing a moment in the sun.

Pat watching Hayley and Collin while the rest of us bowled.