a bff, 2 adorable sons and one beautiful location!

Becca and her boys!

halloween party - yet a bit too hot for costumes

the heat just won't go away - but that doesn't change halloween for the little ones! cupcakes still taste as yummy even when the icing is melting down the side of the wrapper!

oh, my how they've grown

i've always felt like my nieces were my own children, especially before having my own, but the feeling continued even after the birth of my girls. It's nice to share such a close relationship with my sister, which has allowed us to love one another's daughters so much! i can't imagine my girls not having their "Aunt Tata," (tata being the name that i called her when i was little!) with each visit we make back to illinois, there are changes in all three of them - their heighth, their personalities, the length of their haircuts, the topics of conversations, the level of "coolness" that they still apply to their once, mind you, VERY cool aunt, (why does that have to fade away?) - all of it, they just keep growing up and there's nothing we can do to stop it!