Thursday, March 25, 2010

Peoria

The weekend of March 20-21 we went to Peoria to meet with some of my college friends. There were 10 adults and 8 kids (ages 5 to 5mos)! We met at Avanti's for lunch on Saturday then drove around campus a little bit. Next we quickly went to the outdoor mall and ran in and got a new sweatshirt (it was raining/snowing pretty good)! We all then went back to the hotel and took the kids swimming!! After swimming the kids enjoyed running from room to room (the rooms were all really close, so that was nice). We ordered pizza (Papa John's) for dinner and ate down in the continental breakfast room so the kids could run around and watch tv together. We all then went upstairs and tried to get our kids to bed, once they were all finally asleep (I was lucky, Joe wasn't feeling well, so he stayed in the room with our kids), the girls all played a game and chatted and laughed before calling it a night. The kids slept fairly well at the hotel. Kaylynn fell off the bed once (Loren and Kaylynn move a TON in their sleep) and Eryn woke up twice. Not ideal, but could have been worse!

The next day we went down for breakfast and then took the kids swimming one more time before leaving the hotel. We met again at Avanti's for lunch then headed home. It was a fun weekend and I enjoyed spending time with my good friends!!

Eryn's first time in a pool!


In the hot tub...Steph, Gabe, Natalie, Jenny, Kim, Loren and Kellen




Eryn floating on her back!




She actually really liked this!




Daddy and the girls in the pool!





Some beverages by the pool!




This is how Loren and Kaylynn were sleeping when I
came in to go to bed at 11:30!




All the kids...Lucy (2 1/2), Gabe (5), Kellen (5 1/2),
Natalie (3 1/2 almost 4), Kaylynn (3), Loren (5), Eryn (5mos)



And I got Bella (almost 2) in a picture too!!




My 3 girls