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This American Girl Doll display was in the lobby of our hotel. The little girl I babysit, Taylor, collects American Girl Dolls, so Josiah thought it was appropriate to pose next to this doll so we could show Taylor when we got home. Doesn't he look super excited?
This was the mime that preformed on a daily basis outside of our hotel. In order to "activate" him out of his pose, you had to put money in the bucket.
For Thanksgiving dinner, we ate at a local pub...it was so delicious! We had turkey, beef brisket, ham, green beens, carrots, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn bread, and pumpkin cheese cake. The plates they gave you to go through the buffet were seriously like 12x12....HUGE!
The view from our hotel room, we stayed at the Marriott right on the Magnificent Mile!
The view from the top of the Sears tower...it was so cool!
Scary-- we were so high up!
Beautiful
Millennium Park watching the ice skaters


Josiah was trying to touch Trump Tower
He's so strong!

Mom&Dad in front of "the Bean"


the bean was so cool-- we had so much fun taking pictures

we're pretty sure this is the Trump tower-- but we weren't positive
Mom&Dad at breakfast
This was our favorite breakfast place-- they made omelets right in front of your face!
Just outside of our hotel

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, we went to Chicago with my parents and had such a wonderful time. We flew in to Midway airport and got to ride the L-train...it was so much cleaner than the subway in NYC. On Thanksgiving day, most places were closed so we walked around the city and did some sight seeing. Then that evening we went to see The Blindside-- I highly recommend it! On Friday we literally shopped till we dropped. We hit up the Magnificent Mile, Nordstrom, Macy's, Bloomingdales, H&M, Wicker Park, and Bucktown. Our favorite part of the day was eating at this little spot called Feast in Bucktown-- they had the BEST coffee. It is called Intelligencia coffee and it was soooo incredible that we had to buy a bag to enjoy when we returned home. We got home to Louisville late Saturday evening. Overall, it was an amazing trip that made us want to move to Chicago-- it's such a great city and we can't wait to move back!

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Our Lives Lately...  

Posted by: Jenna

I know, I know, no pictures are no fun, but we haven't taken any in a while-- nevertheless, I still have some updating to do. Here are some things that have been going on with the New Hellekson's lately:

1. Grandma Audrey (Jenna's dad's mother) has been in the hospital for the past month so if you remember, please say a prayer for her as she has had a very rough time. She is 78 years old and originally went in for an appendectomy, but after a week in recovery she was still getting worse. They ran some more tests and realized she had an abscess near her bowel that they needed to drain surgically. When they got in there, they also discovered she had a perforated colon and some nasty infection going on. It was so bad that they could not even reattach her colon so now she has to wear a colostomy bag for 6 months until they can reattach her colon. The poor gal has been through so much and is still in a lot of pain--battling an infected incision now. So the more prayers the better! Also pray for my parents as now they are dealing with two sick mothers (mom's mother is in a nursing facility after a stroke this past summer).

2. On a lighter note, I (Jenna) applied for grad school this past week and if all goes well I will be starting the program in summer or fall of 2010, depending on whether I go part-time or full-time. It is only a 30 hour program, so it is very tempting to just go full-time and graduate in May 2011-- but, then I wouldn't be able to work full-time.

3. Speaking of graduation...I (Jenna again...haha) have one more semester left and then graduate in May 2010! It's so crazy that the time is finally here and Josiah and I are pumped for me to finally get out in the "real" workforce. Two full-time incomes will be great for us!

4. Josiah and I are heading to Chicago with my parents for Thanksgiving (as long as grandma Audrey keeps improving)....we are so pumped! I've never been before so this is such a treat. We have wedding money in hand and are ready to spend some of it! Pictures to come...

5. Josiah is now getting into his core classes for his major, which is finance-- he is really thrilled about that because he is starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. It's been difficult having to take a slower route in school since he works full-time at Humana...but now he only has a few semesters left so he is meeting with an advisor at UofL in a few weeks to see exactly how many hours he needs to graduate. Yippie!

I think that's pretty much all the new stuff that's been happening lately with us. Stay tuned!

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