Chicago, Chicago, That Toddling Town ...

In the fall, I found out that Michael Buble was adding some US tour dates around the holidays and my sister and I started joking about how much fun it'd be to go see him again. Yes, we've already seen this tour, but it was just an idea. Anyway, we started half joking looking into tickets, airfare, etc. One day we decided, why not?...lets go for it! We ended up heading to Chicago at the beginning on December for a fun girls weekend. It turned out to be so much fun and exactly what I needed!

So, although this is out of order, this is our fun sisters weekend in Chicago the first weekend in December!

We walked around the city the first night we were there and froze our butts off! It was so so cold. Everyone knows I'm a fare-weather fan of EVERYTHING, but it was worth it. Being out with out having to worry about anything else held me over ... at least for a while.

We checked out the American Girl store. I'm pretty sure we were in there for over an hour ... it was so much fun. Someday, when we both have little girls we'll head back and do the tea party with our girls and their dolls! (yay!)

We also headed over to the trendy "Sprinkles" Cupcakes shop and grabbed ourselves a yummy snap for later. Chelsea is the self acclaimed cupcake addict ... so we had to make sure and stop by!

Here's our loot ... 2 chocolate peppermint, one double chocolate, and one strawberry! Delicious!

We immediately became familiar with the 'L'. We took it in and out of the city each day since we stayed closer to the hotel and the concert. It was kind of fun to see the city and chat (not to mention we saw some interesting people)

The famous store windows at Macy's were a fun catch as well ... I love any city during the holidays. It's so much fun and so pretty seeing all the lights and decorations up!

Our second day in the city it was a crazy blizzard! We were up and in the city pretty early and were a few of the first ones out there. So we snagged some sweet pictures!

Yes, we took crazy pictures in the Bean reflection!

Here I am ... a tourist sell-out! (Isn't that what you're supposed to do on vacation?)

It was freezing and we were wet so we stopped in a cute Italian place for breakfast and it was delicious. Chelsea had a HUGE breakfast sandwich on a Crescent and I went with a yummy fritatta!

Then, we headed back to our hotel and over to our first show of the day! Last minute we ended up getting cheap tickets to see Legally Blonde the Musical. It was a cute show, and we had amazing seats!

Sisters, sisters ...

We had a treacherous trip home (we decided to walk and immediately regretted it ... we were soaking wet by the time we made it back) and rewarded ourselves with a famous Chicago Pizza. Don't worry, it was so good we ate the leftovers for breakfast in the morning!

Next up was the main event ... Michael Buble!

My oldest BFF Lindsey and her friend Erin ended up coming out for her birthday weekend. We met up and headed to the show together. We had a crazy cab ride over, that none of us will forget!!

Here we are ... super excited!

The man himself ...

Seriously, if you ever have the chance (and you like MB, of course) go see him in concert. He's AMAZING!!!! So much better LIVE and he puts on a great show!! Believe me, I don't lie!

It was a quick trip there and back. Nick's dad came up to watch Seth so Nick could study for finals. It turned out to be perfect. Just what I needed. I'm lucky to have been able to do it and thankful to Nick to telling me to go for it! It was nice to get away for a few days. I think this is the kind of thing that makes you a better mom ... sometimes we need breaks too, right? That being said ...

It was the first time I'd been away from Seth for more than a few hours, so it was a little weird. I bought him a fun snow globe that was super tiny and the stupid TSA confiscated it from me saying there was no way to check to see if it was a bomb. I was mad and at that moment I started breaking down. By the time I made it to my gate I was in tears and wanted to be home. I missed my cute little Seth, I missed Nick and I just wanted to be home. Cheesy? Absolutely! Embarrassing? Yes! Especially at the time when people were staring at me wondering if I was loosing my mind! But, oh well ... such is the life of a mom (and a pregnant one at that!)

Thanks for a fun trip Chels