Memorial Weekend

Hi!  Hope everyone had a great weekend!  We did! :) I was lucky enough to have a weekend away in Chicago with my old roommates from college (6 years ago already - am I THAT old?!)  We had a great time catching up, reminiscing, eating out, shopping, walking by the beach, the zoo, etc.  It was so fun to see them again!  Meanwhile, Ryan manned the "troops" at home.  He had a great time having the girls all to himself though.  I called home and he said he was out having a picnic with the girls on their picnic table.  I can just picture him sitting in this tiny picnic table with his huge legs and then the girls all snuggled together.  So cute!  He's such a good dad.  He had the girls all dressed for church too.  Tights and all.  My friends were impressed.  :)  Addy even had a bow in her hair.  So obviously they survived without me and I had a great refreshing time away too!  Then, I came home Sunday night and then Monday, we went to the Memorial Day Parade with our neighbors but as we were unloading our stuff with TONS of people, all of the sudden we found out the parade was cancelled!  I guess a TRAIN had hit a MINIVAN with a 2 year old inside!  SO scary!  The 2 year old is okay but the dad and the policeman are in the hospital.  Hopefully they'll be okay too.  So anyways, they cancelled the parade ...so we packed everyone back up..and headed to a park instead which was just as fun. :)  Then last night we had a bbq at some friends' house.  A great day!  A huge thanks to all of the soldiers who fight or have fought for our country!!!!  God bless you all!

 

Emily, Addy, and Hailey hogging the slides.. :) 

Batter up Addison!
Time for snacks...
Trying to get a rare family photo...(Hailey, Addy, Emily)
And again... (Addy, Emily, Hailey)

And my roommates!!!! (Dawn, Tricia, Heather, me, Mindy, Wendy, Sara) We missed you Becky!