Flat Stanley, Take 2

Our niece, Madison, sent her Flat Stanley to come visit us this past week, (don't worry Madison-he's on his way home!!). These are some of his adventures here:

First we went to Giordano's, where he not only ate with us, but he also got to go back in the kitchen and help make Chicago style deep dish pizzas!

Then we went into Chicago and took pictures with some landmarks: Aaron and Stanley are posing here with Michael Jordan's statue in front of the United Center; he and I are standing in front of Oprah's studios.

Vaguely here you can see the Sears Tower in the background!


Stanley was lucky enough this visit to go sledding with our youth group! We had a lot of fun:

Stanley even made his own Snow Angel!

Thanks Madison for sending him here! We had a great time. Love you!

P.S.-If you want to see our visit with our other niece, Hannah's Flat Stanley, Click Here.

Flat Stanley's visit

We had a lot of fun with Flat Stanley while he was here visiting us. This is what we did:

First we went to Culver's, because they don't have Culver's in the south. He got his picture taken with the Culver's Crew, and then they gave us some fun free stuff to give to Hannah! They were so nice and had heard of Flat Stanley before.

From there we went to Aurora's Phillips Park Zoo. We saw the Sunken Gardens, and lots of fun animals! We got real close to a very big turkey. We also visited the Zoo's Mastodon Museum. Two Mastodon skeletons were discovered right there on site and we saw some of their bones!

Luke and I took Flat Stanley for a walk the next day, down the street to our local Fire House, the Oswego Fire Department's Station number 2. The Firemen there treated Flat Stanley like a celebrity and were so nice! Here is the Fire Chief with Flat Stanley and Luke holding his fire truck while posing with two real firemen!

On Sunday of course we went to church. All of Hannah's friends wanted to take a picture with him so here they are in front of our church Huge wall map. Our Flat Stanley met another Flat Stanley and they took a picture together-fun.

On Monday we took a special trip into Chicago, just to go sightseeing with Flat Stanley. In the first picture he is in front of the Hancock Tower, then in front of the Field Museum (that's where Sue the T-Rex is!). Then we have a picture of him with the Chicago skyline behind him, you can see the Planetarium, the Hancock Tower, and Navy Pier. And of course we had to get a picture in front of Wrigley Field!

Then Stanley accompanied Mr. Scarbrough to AWANA Headquarters. He looked around and had his picture taken throughout the building. And he even got his picture taken with someone very important-Jenny, she is rewriting the Sparks books right now!

And then we developed pictures of his trip and mailed them, and Flat Stanley back to Hannah in Mississippi. That's the fun thing about Flat Stanley, since he is flat, he can just hop into an envelope and go wherever he wants! We had a lot of fun with him. Thanks for sending him to us Hannah! One day we hope to do all that fun stuff and more with you and Madison and your mommy. Love you!