Category — Family

If you ever wonder where Ethan gets his big blue eyes, this picture says it all:

It has been an amazing year and we want to thank all of our friends, family, and other Hurry Home regulars for your support and readership. We have really enjoyed sharing with you some of the Hurry family adventures over the past year and thought we would post some links and revisit some of the year’s highlights (some of the links go right to image galleries, but most of them link to the posts that contain the links to the photos and video.)

We also would love to hear from you and invite you to leave a comment below, highlighting any of your favorite posts, pics, or videos.

December

• 12/2008 – Christmas in St. Louis (Photos)
  
• 12/2008 – Thanksgiving in Indy (Photos)
  
• 12/2008 – Hurry’s Chi-Town Adventure (Photos)
  
• 12/2008 – The Hurrys are Expecting
• 12/2008 – Tabla Madal Jam in Kathmandu Music Store (Video)

November

• 11/2008 – Boing, Boing, Boing (Video) [Read more →]

Earlier this month, Bridget, Ethan and I spent the weekend in Chicago and introduced our little man to the “Windy City”. We got to get away as a family and experience Chicago together and it was great to see the city during the Christmas season, all decked out in holiday decorations.

We stayed at Hotel 71 which is in a great location downtown on the Chicago River, within walking distance to some downtown hot spots. We arrived on a Friday evening and started the wknd out with a pizza delivered from Giordano’s, one of our favorite Chicago pizza spots and spent the rest of the evening getting settled. The Hurry family loves pizza (especially Chicago style)!

Saturday, we got to spend the day walking around the city, checking out some shops. We took Ethan through Macys (Chicago’s original Marshall Fields) so he could see all the decorations and toys they had displayed. We also picked up some world famous Frangos Mint Meltaway Chocolates and stopped by the Walnut Room briefly to check out the amazing Christmas tree setup there.  We then spent the remainder of the morning in Millenium Park and had lunch at Park Grill, a restaurant right in front of Cloud Gate (otherwise known as “The Bean”. ) There was an outdoor ice skating rink right in front of the restaurant, so we had a great view of all the action from our window seat. We relaxed at the hotel in the afternoon and headed back out for the evening for a stroll down Chicago’s “Magnificent Mile” and had dinner at foodlife, located in Water Tower Place.

Sunday morning, we had breakfast at the Tempo Cafe, had some great food there and wrapped up our Chicago visit shortly thereafter. It was nice to get away for the weekend. Enjoy the pics!

Dear friends and family we want to share some exciting news with you all, we’re expecting!! Bridget is about 12 weeks along and is due in the middle of June. We invite your prayers and support as we prepare for the arrival of this wonderful gift.

We recently got some new pics from our family photographer, Brandy Cunningham. She wrote a post on her site after the shoot, check it out. She has been our photographer since before we were married, so we highly recommend her if you are in need of photography. Thanks again for the great images Brandy.

In our family, we have a tradition when we celebrate birthdays. We don’t just celebrate on the birthday, but we celebrate “birthday week”, starting 3 days before and 3 days after the birthday. Bridget celebrated her birthday this past weekend, and as birthday week comes to an end, I invite you to join me in wishing Bridget Happy Birthday!

(Pictures were taken on her birthday; we dressed Ethan up and we had a little Mommy/Ethan birthday photo shoot)

(Look close at the top of the leaf pile) We got around to doing some leaf blowing in our front yard today and the result was the biggest leaf pile I’ve ever seen! After Ethan woke up from his nap, Mommy and him came outside and Ethan had quite the leaf pile experience. The pile was so big, it attracted some of the neighbors and their children on our street, and we all had a blast hanging out together. After we left to head to a friend’s house for the Colt’s game, our neighbors gave us an incredible gift and bagged almost all of our leaves!! Thank you so much for serving our household, you all rocked our world when we pulled in the driveway.

Last month we had the opportunity to travel to Colorado and spend time with friends and family in Boulder and Aspen. It was such an amazing trip. Our journey started off a little chilly and wet as we landed, and in a place that boasts 300 days of sunshine a year, you would think showing up in short sleeves and shorts would be alright, but that’s what I get for not checking the weather. As is the nature of the weather in Colorado, quickly turned to sunshine within the next day.

Our stay in Boulder was great and we got to spend some time with friends there. One of the highlights was getting take out from our favorite restaurant in Boulder, Sherpas, and we warmed our bellies with some Yak stew, delicious,… We then made the drive over independence pass through hail and every kind of adverse condition you can imagine (we passed a car that was flipped over) and we arrived in Aspen safely. We stayed with Bridget’s Aunt and Uncle and some other family friends that were there for the extended wknd as well. Such a beautiful city. We ate many a good meal (including eating at famous Woody Creek Tavern), took regular walks through town and surrounding parks, and we even hiked up a trail toting Ethan on our back, so quite the adventures. Pics are below, enjoy!

In celebration of our recent anniversary, we thought we would share classic before and after pics, back when Steve was an aspiring Top Gun pilot and Bridget was dreaming of going to Space Camp and becoming an astronaut.