Aspire Illinois 2024

Monday, October 21

Eric and I traveled to Chicago, IL for our October Aspire event in Schaumburg, IL.

The girls did Day 47 in school. Sierra worked from 11-3pm. They attended the meeting for The Living Nativity at 6:30pm at the church.

Tuesday, October 22

This was our set up day for our Aspire day.

The sunrise in Chicago.

Hit up a local coffee shop.

Set up day.

Our hotel lobby.

My dinner from a local BBQ place. Loaded mac and cheeser.

The girls did Day 48 in school. Sierra worked at Chick-Fil-A from 8am-3pm. They had soccer practice at 7pm.

Wednesday, October 23

This was our Aspire event day in Schaumburg, IL. Long and busy day.

Tried food from this cool little place - Minnie's!

Sierra left for the College Getaway event that she was attending at Pensacola Christian College. She arrived around 3:30pm.

Thursday, October 24

Eric and I left at 4:45am with our team to catch our flights at O'Hare. He flew to Dallas for his next event and I flew back to Jacksonville.

Kylee was in a drama production at PCC. Here are a few photos from that.

The rest of my day and Friday, I had a bad headache. I did not get as much accomplished as I would have liked. Thursday, I took Summer to her American Heritage Girls club at 4:30pm. We then decided to watch a Hallmark movie. It was nice to be just the two of us. :)

Friday, October 25

Friday, Summer did school. I went to the chiropractor and did a couple errands. At 5:30PM, I took her to her horse riding lessons. Then we watched another Hallmark movie. :)

Addie got her "brag tag". This is a badge that seniors get that say their name, major and show that they are almost done! So proud of her!

The barn kitties loved me. :)

Then came home to my own kitties. :)

How you leave your kitchen when your headache has persisted for two days. :(

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