Vacation

I've been trying to write this post for the last few days now, but the kids have not been sleeping while....OK M hasn't been. I'm not sure what is wrong she keeps waking up every few hrs, I really hope having her tonsils out will help! It's been so bad that we have had to give her a pillow to sleep on which seems to be helping. Anyways, on to our trip.....

On Tuesday morning we got up at 4am packed the cooler got the kids in the car and was on the road by 4:22, Pretty good! We drove all day and made GREAT time. We drove 14hrs and made it just inside the IL boarder. The kids did really well, then we stopped at a hotel and I wanted to pull my hair out. They were bouncing off the walls and bed and anything else they could jump off or on. We FINALLY got them to fall asleep at about 9pm(Central time). We ate breakfast and then headed out at about 9:30 on Wednesday. It took about 6 hrs to get to Tony and Christy's and they were really rough, the kids had had enough of the car. Once we got in we had just enough time to unload our luggage at the house and get the car washed(at Fuller's of course) before we were to meet and my Dad and Lisa's house. Unfortunately in the rush to unload and get back in the car, I forgot my camera so I didn't get any pics of the kids with them, which totally stinks. The kids had a great time so that's all that really matters right! Poor N did have a bad few hrs in IL though. Well we were at my dad's he was(we think) trying to get off this bench and scratched his face, well then about 3 hrs later after we left we headed to watch our nephew at football practice. I was with the kids at the playground and N had just came down the twirly slide when I noticed M starting to WALK off onto the slide, she's tried to just walk off a slide before so I went running to caught her well I tripped and ran right into N, our heads hit hard...I had a headache. Poor thing!!!

Next up was for hubby's grandma to see the kids. So we headed to the Chicago, M had her first taste of Kugalis(I hope I'm spelling that right). And man did she LOVE it.

Then it was time spent with Tony, Christy, and the kids. We went to Splash Vally water park! N had a blast. He keep going down this slide over and over, that is after he got over the first time's shock. I think he scared himself the first time cuz he goes under water and don't know it was coming.

N just coming out of the slide

This is how far under he got after he hit the water

Aunt Christy blow some bubbles for M one night

Saturday we were going to go to Brookfield Zoo with Cole, but once we got there is started raining so we ended up just going to Hunted Trails. The kids still had fun. And can you believe I had my camera, but Cole kept having me take pictures with her camera I never got any on mine, Sigh that's what happens to your brain when you have to kids! After that we went to Grandma Chris' and were going to have a cook out, but it was raining there too. N had fun with Shelby(the dog), he thought it was funny when she chased him onto the couch.

N trying to get Shelby to chase himAunt Cole and N making silly faces

Sunday we went to Tony and Sarah's house and then Aunt Karen, Uncle Mike and 2 of the girls came over later. Tony ended up going in storage and getting one of his lego boxes, which N was in heaven. I think Uncle Tony was regrating it after about the 4th robot he had to build! N also got some quality time with one of his Snoopy's......As in beating it up....poor snoopy never saw it coming!

N beating up Snoopy

Uncle Tony building robots

Aunt Sarah having to model ALL the robots per N

Monday was the Field Museum, I was really looking forward to taking N(cuz of the dinosaurs). The boy had a blast, we had a few moments that he was getting bored(all the animals that are stuffed), but he loved the Underground which we had to go through 2 times...good thing it was free!!

N touching an earthworm

M at the hands on kids area

And he really liked the Dinosaurs, M missed them that's when she fell asleep.

N on a Dinosaur Bone

And of course we got his picture in front of Sue!!
Don't you just love the hand on the hip?!

After the Field Museum we went to Uncle G and Aunt S's after we picked up my Grandma R. We had some Chicago pizza....MMM! N got to try and play tough of war with Roxy(the dog). The poor thing was so tired by the time we left, she's not use to young kids anymore! On our way home, M got sick we still aren't sure why. Hubby think's something she ate or car sickness. So we ended up just staying at the house on Tuesday just to be safe. N and his cousin N had a BLAST though. They were running all around. At one point cousin N was pulling N around on a blanket, they loved it. Even M got a try! Though, poor cousin N couldn't pull both of them so it was a one time run for her.

On Wednesday at 3:30am we left to drive home. We had desided earlier that we would just drive straight through, so after about 21 hrs in the car we made it home at 12:30am(Eastern time). It was ok til about the last 4 hrs. The kids had a little bit of a hard time falling asleep(who wouldn't after being in the car all day). And it was starting to get really hard to stay awake for hubby the last hr.

And a "fun" little thing that happened on the way home...in Georgia we see some flashing lights up ahead and when we get "there" it's these 2 cops slowing everyone down to about 30 mph(ON THE HIGHWAY) this went on for a good 15miles. Then the road went from 3 lanes to 2 then about 2 miles later down to one lane. Then the cops lead us off the off ramp and try and flag us across the street on to the on ramp. Apparently they had to close off the bridge there, but it was crazy.

This was the view in front of us we weren't that far from the cops

This was a view of the cars behind us(at only 3 mins into it!)Anyways, Thank you everyone for all the gifts the kids loved them. And thank you Tony and Christy for letting us stay with you!

M playing with bubbles