Mother's Day & Okoboji Trip

My friend Lori recently said she was impressed that we were posting to our blog more often...that was almost three weeks ago! We recently moved our computer that houses our photos upstairs to make it more convenient to blog so hopefully that will help us stay up to date better. Anyhow, I will post a few entries to bring you all up to speed. On Mother's Day weekend we had the wonderful opportunity to spend the weekend with our friends The Skrams and The Tynans in Okoboji, IA. You would think with 7 kids 5 and under there would have been some chaos but it was quite the opposite! Everyone had sooo much fun and they were all very well behaved! Luckily we had nice weather which allowed us to play outside during the day (and have a bonfire at night with some nice margs for the adults)! Kate thought it was pretty cool too that she could just run around outside with all the kids without always having Mom or Dad right by her. And Annie of course thoughts he could do everything all the big kids could! Lots of biking, running, and playground playing (Annie fell of the big swing three times before she realized she could not let go!). The highlight of the trip was spending Mother's Day at an indoor water park, a first for Kate and Annie. It took Annie a good 1 1/2 hours before she would smile and stop clinging to either me or Brian. When we walked in, she was backing up saying "No, No"! But once she got used to it, she was an old pro, having a great time! We definitely need to get the girls to another water park sooner than later! While it wasn't a very relaxing Mother's Day, it was such a wonderful weekend with great friends! What a pure joy to see our girls have so much fun playing with other kids. Hopefully this will turn into an annual (or even bi-annual) trip!