I didn't take a whole lot of photos on our vacation. I took some of the girls before hubby and I left for the weekend, but not so much after! ;)

Here is our re-cap...

TUESDAY
9 AM - dr appt - had to go spend $50 on MORE meds for these girls!
1 - left for WI - 5 hour drive....long drive...
6 - arrived at Nana and Bapa's house finally!
Happy Joes BBQ Pizza! YUM YUM

WEDNESDAY
Slept in late
mommy went to Once Upon A Child and Kohls
Culvers and Taco Bell for lunch
Hubby and I went out for a couple hours of shopping

THURSDAY
our friend Matthew and Izzy came from Rochester to see us! Hubby and Matthew went and played golf, so Izzy the girls and I played at Nana and Bapa's house!

Across the street from Ikea was.....


Hubby and I spent the rest of the day at the Mall. We had a lot of fun shopping, and LOVED this store....

The American Girl store was soooo neat! Expensive, but neat! We took some video of it to show Avery, and she wants to go back there FOR SURE!!! We decided we'll have to take the girls back sometime this summer because they would LOVE Nickelodeon Play Land too!



We went to the Nascar store where hubby did some driving thing, we had an aqua massage, ate Chipolte, and visited countless stores.....like this one...


We were tired by the end of the day, and crashed back at the hotel. Had a great nights sleep, and then woke up for day #2 in Mpls!

SATURDAY
We met a new Pastor friend at Maria's Cafe in the downtown area. It was a happening place. There was a Spanish singer, and I had to laugh when someone requested for him to sing "Ring of Fire"... I giggled as he sang...he was good, but just something wasn't right about a Spanish speaking man singing a Johnny Cash song....


Hubby and I drove around Mpls, went past the new Twins Stadium, and saw lots of interesting people and places around the downtown area.

We went back to the hotel for a little rest, and then off to Saturday night service at John Piper's church...


It was "glorious" as my hubby would say. It was a wonderful service, and we were so grateful to have been able to have been there.

After Church we hit up Red Lobster, and then crashed again....long day!

SUNDAY
We slept in, checked out of the hotel, and then met up with my college roommate Andrea, her hubby Brian, and her sweet baby Ella for lunch at Granite City. The hours passed way to quickly, but it was so great to see them all and catch up.

After lunch, we headed back to Wisconsin to re-unite with our girls! The reunion was great, we felt re-freshed and ready to jump back into the parenting thing...

And, yesterday, MONDAY, we drove home for what seemed like all day long....

Happy to be home, sad to have left Wisconsin, but we are happy none the less....

oh, and tomorrow, I turn 30...yah, crazy, huh?

just returned last night from our week long vacation...

i'm busy tackling my inbox and trying to get caught up!

Lots of photos to come!!!

bubble
goggle
dada
mama
yaya - Avery
giwl - girl (Liv)
nana
bapa
ball
wall
no
yesh - yes
num num - food
bop - drink
wa wa - water
wa wa - Dora
ne ne - all done/over
yayev - a possession
ya - on or off
ma - vacumn
uh-foo - dog
neigh-he - horse
tee tee - bird
moo - cow
tck tck - clock
nunt - Enchanted
wa wod - One World
bubble - have to go potty
ba - turn it on (push play)
vroo vroo - car
ah no - oh no!
ba-ha - sheep
ow
Bob
ah-da - right there/what's that
wow
ho ho - Santa
bwww- cold
voo - Star Wars

It's been an eventful week here at our house!

It's spring cleaning week/curbside pick up week in our town. I went through our stuff a couple months ago and was able to bag up 10 huge black bags of stuff we don't need, that I didn't want to sell, and that I just didn't want to see again.

Needless to day, I think we must have nice trash.....either that, or these people are just looking for some fun on a Tuesday afternoon.


See, that's our trash pile, and that's a family of 3, going through each of our bags, one by one, shopping, or what have you. They spent close to 45 minutes out there. We felt violated and just had to take some photos...

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Liv's hair is now long enough to put all of it into a pony tail! It's not a carefully done up ponytail by any means, but hey...I think Avery was well over 3 1/2 before she had enough hair to put up!

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It's "Job" week at school, and Avery brought this home yesterday. I thought it was funny. She can read at nearly a 3rd grade level, but apparently her spelling needs some work! They call it "kindergarten spelling", where they just sound it out and spell it how they think it's supposed to be! :)