Wonderful Weekend!

Eli and I had a faaaaabulous weekend visiting a bunch of our dear friends in Richmond! We took off on Saturday morning and Eli had his best Tennessee football jersey on, in honor of football Saturday. Weellll, as soon as we stepped out of the car he threw up all over himself. Again and again. On himself and in the street. SO, we show up all puked covered and needing a change.

So we walked in the door and were immediately greeted with Juri's sweet smiling face and a beautiful spread.... AND all of our other good friends!! We had a FABULOUS day with everyone... we ate, played with all of Brady's toys (including a pretty sweet baby roller-coaster)....

.....ate some more, rested......

......and played in the bouncy house....

.....and just basically had an all-around great day. Eli had a low-grade fever during the day which put him out of commission for some of the festivities, but it was nothing that a little Tylenol couldn't fix. He was up and back to his old self in no time.

The bouncy house was a big hit for the kids and the food (and Sangria!) was a big hit for us adults.

The obligatory group pic was a chaotic and hilarious as expected...

At the end of the day we all left Juri and Roy to their once again peaceful house. Julie, Tanya, Rebecca, Chris, all the kids and I had to make a quick Wal-Mart run. Of course that was interesting. We spent the rest of the evening hanging out in the hotel room and letting the kids run WILD. They had a pretty great bed-jumping playground between the two beds and the sofa bed.

Jalen was the best jumper They all had their different techniques. Eventually they had had enough and setteled down for some Spongebob.

The next morning we unfortunately had to say goodbye to Julie and Robin. It pretty much took us ALL DAY to get motivated to get up and go out anywhere. When we finally did, Rebecca, Chris, Tanya, and I loaded up the kids and headed to PF Changs. The meal was awesome but unfortunately I had the worst case scenario with Eli. He had had NO nap and was not really happy with anything short of running all over the restaurant and screaming when he was put in his seat. Owen and Jalen were little angels.

After dinner we took the boys swimming at the hotel. I swear I think they laughed and had smiles on their faces for the WHOLE time we were there.

They all splashed and jumped and laughed and had a blast. Then, it was time to dry off and go get ice cream!!!

They ate their ice cream and played chase around the store. Next was time to go back to the hotel. They had yet more fun jumping and running and finally settling down to watch some Spongebob.

Getting the boys to sleep was kind of a chore after all the fun they had but once they were out, they were out.

This morning we had breakfast with Rebecca abd Chris and the boys got to run around and play one last time before we all took our loooong trips home.

All in all it was an amazing weekend with great friends and their sweet babies and I hope we can all get together again soon!!