The Ledge

As an employee working in the Sears Tower (I refuse to call it by the newly changed name, "Willis Tower") we were offered an opportunity to visit the new attraction on the Observation Deck free of charge.

The Ledge is a series of glass bays that extend just more than 4 feet outward from the Sears Tower and let you look 1,353 feet straight down over the city. Here's a picture.

I've always had a slight fear of heights but I just had to put my fears aside and take advantage of this. It was truly a rush taking that first step over the side of the building and onto the glass platform. A journalist in the Tribune captured the emotion perfectly, "being suspended a quarter of a mile in the air with nothing more than three layers of half-inch-thick glass standing between you and a date with your funeral director." Pretty crazy, huh!

Here I am, trying not to freak out!

Playing Catch-Up: Krupa Family Gathering, Father's Day, Trip to Texas & 4th of July

Haven't posted in a long time - we've been busy! We of course have a million pictures from the last few weeks, so here's a few to document what we've been up to.

The Krupa Family had a big gathering a couple weeks ago. It was neat to all get together and the girls loved meeting all of their cousins, aunties and uncles.

The girls and their cousin Katie

Cousin James being sweet with the girlsMommy and Liv

Krupa Family of Four

All the family babies born in 2008!

Mama Diane & Papa Bede with the grandkids

Then the next week the girls flew on an airplane for the very first time. We all went to Texas to see my family and to attend my friend Tara's wedding. The plane ride wasn't too terrible, but pretty stressful nonetheless - toting around all of the baby gear was the worst part! The girls were restless in the beginning of the flights, but once we took off they slept pretty well.

Sleeping on the plane seat between Rob and I

Liv sleeping on my lap and mommy's much needed

bloody mary in the background.

Caroline on the seat.

We stayed at my mom's house in San Antonio and the girls had so much fun with their Grandma Karen and Grandpa Dave!... so much fun that we didn't even get ANY pictures of them. =( Sorry Mom!

Auntie Nessa

Mommy & Liners
Girls with their Great-Nanny

Pool Time! Their very first time being in a pool! They LOVED it.

Here with Daddy & Grandpa Richard

And Grandma Karen had a baby pool for them

They met their Great-Grandpa for the first time!

Aunt Vanessa & Uncle Jeremy

Us at Tara & Mike's Wedding

Fourth of July Weekend: Hope everyone had a Happy 4th! We stayed in town and went swimming and hung out at

Mama Diane and Papa Bede's house.

Nice hat Daddy

Caroline

Olivia

And Olivia is crawling! Forward!

We just discovered this in the last couple days. Here's a couple videos I got.

And in this one you can hear Caroline saying, "Mama".

She just started that about a week ago.

Baby Einstein

I was looking through our computer picture and video files and came across this video that Rob took. I didn't know he took this, must have been while I was out one day. Thought it was pretty cute - this must be how daddy entertains them while mommy is gone.

New Bath Alternative

So we ended up buying an inflatable pink duck bathtub for the girls. Safe and fun, but too small to fit both big girls at once. We'll just have to wait until they're more stable sitters to do the real bath tub together.

Olivia

Caroline

And some backbends for good measure...

Nice 'do!

Liv doing her work on the laptop

Happy Girls