September birthdays

Each September we find ourselves in Clarendon Hills celebrating all of our family's September and early October birthdays (Mary, Mel, Erik, Aaron & Tyler!).  We spend a relaxing day catching up with everyone and usually enjoy a meal and some birthday cake.  This year, we spent some time in the backyard taking some casual family pictures, too.  The kids also got to open and take home their special annual ornament gift from Grammy Brown.  She is very sweet to give it to them in advance of Christmas each year so they can hang it right on the tree the day it goes up.  (Oh, and Erik still gets his beloved annual Star Wars ornament, too!)