Thanksgiving week

We are back and settled after a great vacation week. We took off last Sunday to head to South Bend to visit great friends of ours. It was a very encouraging and refreshing time for all of us, and A and C had a blast playing with their 5 kids. Then we drove to Cleveland to visit P's family. The 4 1/2 hour trip ended up to be 3 1/2 hours since the speed limit was 70 and we made NO STOPS!! The kids were such troopers.

We were met at the door of Gramma the Great's house by P's cousin MG. She's 9 and couldn't wait for the boys to arrive. So, A had an instant friend who even spent the night so she could be there as soon as he woke up. And we had a built in babysitter. It was great! We enjoyed time with family, ate a TON and then the boys did great on the trip home. We almost didn't have to stop, but about 20 min. away, C started melting down. He hadn't eaten lunch, and I decided it's too messy to try to feed babyfood to an infant who's facing backwards in his carseat. So we took a brief 5 min. stop, fed C really quickly and headed home.

It was so much fun and it was nice to have the weekend to recoop and readjust to the "real world." A and C miss their friends and P and I miss our babysitters.

Amazingly with all that traveling, I forgot to take any pictures! We were just enjoying ourselves too much!