Dear Summer, Please Never End!!!

This has been one of my favorite weekends of the summer... Okay, so I have said that same phrase the last few weekends... I think I just want summer to last forever! But really, we have had a great Labor Day weekend!
I was off Friday, so I have had an extra long holiday weekend, which has been glorious ;) Friday afternoon, I picked Z up from work, and we met some friends at the rooftop lounge at the Hotel Lincoln. So lovely! This is such a fun spot just a few blocks from our apartment. We really don't take advantage of all that Chicago has to offer nearly enough! After drinks, we had the yummiest dinner at Mercadito... so fun! Our last stop for the night was a speakeasy bar/lounge across from Mercadito called Untitled... cutest place ever... I literally felt like we stepped into the roaring twenties! Love! It was such a fun night!
Saturday we woke up and watched college football gameday.... which Z has been waiting to do all summer! It rained Saturday morning which encouraged a super lazy morning... perfect. I made a little door decoration to kick off the Alabama football season... gotta represent up here!

 I also made some yummy food to eat during the game. We finally got ready and headed to our friends' apartment to watch the first Alabama football game!! Thankfully we won, even if it wasn't the prettiest W ;) Saturday was such a perfectly relaxing day!

Roll tide from Chicago!!

Sunday... this was my favorite... we got up {later than planned} and decided to drive to Michigan. I have been wanting to do this all summer, so I was super excited! First, we made a stop at Starbucks ;) and then we hit the road.

 It was really nice to get out of the city for a while. We drove to Sawyer first, where we saw some crazy sand dunes and a super packed public beach. We ate a quick picnic and decided to continue our road trip... Our next stop was the cutest, most charming little town, St. Joseph. It reminded me a lot of Fairhope meets Seaside, lovely! There was even a little antique flea marketish festival going on... so we of course had to look around a bit ;) I'm already planning a trip back to St. Joseph when we can stay for a while!

We really wanted to drive further north, but since we got such a late start, we decided to head back to Chicago. Next time, for sure!
Today has proved to be another fabulously relaxing day that started with this...

Thanks to my sweet kiddos at school for the Starbucks gift cards ;)

Our plans for today include a walk along the lakeshore, a stop at Barnes and Noble, and possibly Oak Street Beach?! Yep, I'd be just fine if summer decided to stick around forever ;)
How did you spend your Labor Day weekend?! Hope it has been just as fabulous as ours!