The girls and I had a three day weekend two weeks ago and we started the fun with a Thursday night movie...
The new Annie and we LOVED it! Such fun music and a heartwarming story again...very similar to the first but modernized :)
I actually still brought the girls to daycare around 10 so I could run, organize, clean and pack for a little weekend getaway. I didnt get as much done as wanted but I got enough done. And we were on our way to Stevens Point, WI to see our cousins around 5:30 I'd say. And by we, I just mean me and the girls...I was a little nervous about this but really wanted to go still. Chris had also really wanted to go but got sick in the middles of the day and knew a long car ride would NOT help. So a girls road trip it was! And overrall the girls were great..they watched two movies, we did a bathroom and dremamine and icee stop and then a Subway stop for dinner because none of the drive thrus sounded good and I did pullover to call my cousin to make sure I was going the right way. My GPS seemed to have stopped working. So somehow all of that took just over 4 hours. Apparently everything takes a little longer with just one adult and two young kiddoes! It was 930 when we got there and their kids were still up and there was ice cream waiting for us as well. Bedtime was about midnight for all of us! Who knew the kids could stay up that late...even with staying awake the entire drive.
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| Morning coloring! |
We went to watch Caleb play soccer and then the kids played in the YMCA play center for a bit while we waited for the arrival of my parents.
Shortly after they arrived we went out to lunch to a yummy pizza by the slice parlor called Politos. Many different flavors were had...cheese, mac an cheese, mexican, bbq steak and french fries, and mediterranean.
We then played at an awesome universal park called KASH!
The front view of their beautiful home built by my cousin!
And here is my cousin Gabe! He was working hard smokin some ribs for us and frying some cheese. We also had a yummy buffalo chicken dip and potato salad for supper.
More coloring and being silly before dinner.
DELICIOUS!!
We introduced the Gabes to letterboxing and did two letterbox hikes after dinner.
One was in a sculpture park...
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| The kids on the BIG BENCH! |
And the other one was a nature center.
The plan was to walk up an appetite and go to Belt's ice cream afterwards but it was quite late and we had gotten chilly and the line looked like it would have easily been 45 minutes long...none of those things sounded good so headed back to Gabe's to raid his freezer which was fully of ice cream anyways.
The next morning we biked around the neighborhood and played at Caleb and Courtney's school playrgound which is pretty much across the street and down the road from their house :)
Harper was in heaven on this bike with training wheels that was just her size. She didnt pedal but she sure thought she was making this move!
Playing with the lightsaver before we went on another letterbox hike before Belt's :)
Going on a hunt...
We found it!
Finally time for the Steven's Point treat of Belt's Ice Cream :) It was so fun to go back here. They have the most fun flavors and huge servings! I had a chocolate covered pretzel with salted caramel flurry in chocolate ice cream...basically a blizzard but bigger and cheaper! We used to go here when the rest of Gabe's family lived in Stevens Point and we would visit for holidays or lil weekend/summer trips. Felt like a walk down memory lane. We also drive past their own beautiful house.
The girlies all had cones...yes Harper is trying to eat hers with a spoon. I dont know why. She's kind of a weird kid sometimes.
It was a great trip that went way too quick and we missed Chris/daddy. We will go back this summer for sure! Theres a fun pool and more letterboxes. And of course cousins and ice cream :)
