The Bauers: More Chicago/ Michigan Lake House

This will definitely be one of my longest blog posts:-) We have had such an amazing time in Chicago/Michigan...We are so grateful to the Putz family for the incredible visit we have had!!! We were in town for Kelsey's 30th birthday and had a great time celebrating at one of JJ's charity events and then a party with a great group of people afterward.

Kelsey, Me, and Emily at the Charity Event

Bobble, Craig, and JJ...notice Matt and JJ's vests...they were Celebrity Servers...

On Friday at the Sox game, we went into a suite and put ourselves in food/drink coma for Kelsey's birthday...the view for the game was awesome...the background actually looks fake!! The games were so exciting...a month ago, it looked like it wasn't gonna be their season...they actually took over 1st place while we were there and didn't lose a game :-) Great job JJ and thanks a ton!!!

Happy 30th Kelsey!!!

On Friday the four of us went downtown and did the Boat tour that Kelsey suggested...it was a gorgeous day and an amazing tour...there is so much history to each of the buildings...the river runs right through all of the buildings....

The girls on the boat :-)

Always make sure I get a family photo at the game...the guy in the background must be feeling left out!!!

On Sunday we drove to JJ's parents lake cottage for the All-Star break...it is a beautiful place with so many things for the kids and adults to do...including just kicking back relaxing!!!

Craig kayaked around the entire lake :-)...later that day he went out again and we saw him capsized :-(

Kaelyn, Codi, and Carli on the boat waiting their turn to tube

Carli in the Kayak~

JJ tried really hard to dump Carli and Codi on the double tube!

Waiting patiently on the boat for adults to take them out!

Madeline, Kaelyn, Craig, and Carli

Carli and Kelsey being dumped on the single tube :-)

Carli and Kelsey had a wrestling match on the trampoline :-)

I was surprised by how much Carli enjoyed the fishing...she was even taking her own of the hooks :0

Codi and Kaelyn were buddies :-)

Craig caught a couple really nice small mouth bass :-) I caught the most though :-)

Relaxing on the deck...Like JJ's dad said...if you can't relax at this place...you have issues!

I caught a pretty decent bass on my Disney Princess pole I was using :-)

Carli's emancipated mother (Kelsey) was so patient teaching her how to ski :-)

Gorgeous view from the back porch!

Tubing time again!!! Carli must be exhausted!!---she tubed several times (enduring JJ's efforts to dump her) and gave skiing a whirl for quite some time :-)