Wisconsin Trip

Our trip up to Wisconsin went really well. It was nice to see friends and family and to visit the place I grew up. While traveling with two families and small children is not always the easiest or stress free, we were able to do everything we wanted to do and had a good time.

We left late Wednesday night, figuring that the kids would sleep in the car all the way up and we were right. We stopped for gas around 3am and they woke up and were wide awake. Jaime and I thought they'd never go back to sleep. But as soon as we hit the road, they were all back to sleep. We left a little sooner coming back to Indiana, leaving after dinner. Nate fell asleep but woke up a couple of hours later. We stopped and fed the kids, but I knew the stop wouldn't be long enough for Nate, thinking he just had a nap, not down for the night. So it wasn't long after we got back on the road that we had to pull over again because he was not happy. The Toppes went on ahead as their kids were still peacefully asleep. We only had to stop once more on the way home, making it back home around 6am. So traveling, in my opinion, went much smoother than expected!

A run down of the things we did while we were there: We had a cook out at the park on Saturday and invited friends and family to come down. It was so good to see some faces that we haven't seen in years--some over a decade! We also were able to view the house we grew up in. It's currently for sale and the realtor let us in to look around. So many memories came flooding back walking through the rooms. We watched my brother Matt play a baseball game. Went out to breakfast with my Dad, brothers Kenny and Matt and Matt's girlfriend Tiffany. Went out to dinner with my sister Kathy and her family and Dad and Linda. Went up to Jody's house and met little baby Mason (so tiny!) and walked around the farm. Went paddle boating out on the lake a couple of times. Definitely a sight to see us out there paddling around! Went to the park, went shopping, went out for Friday fish fry. The highlight was going up to Jim Peck's Wildwood Zoo. We pet and fed goats and pigs and rabbits. Fed juice to a bear. Nate grabbed a deer's antlers. Just awesome.

I'm not sure if I'm leaving anything out. Of course in pure Nate style not only did he poop on my brother's rug but also all over my niece Katie. In his defense, that augmentin is not his friend. I'm really glad we went up and hopefully it won't be as long before our next trip up there.