Our Holiday Weekend

Ok, I have a few minutes.  Let's see if I can give an update on our holiday weekend.  We left Friday night and drove to Iowa.  Our 7-8 hour trip turned into an 11 hour trip due to Chicago traffic and a short-cut gone bad.  We got in and to bed at 6am.  This is 7am our time and Andrew was waking up for the day.   Thankfully, he did go back to bed for a little while before getting up with Grandma Dykstra.  Needless to say, we were exhausted on Saturday. 

 

Saturday was a nice, lazy day.  We lounged around, played outside, grilled for lunch, napped, etc...    Then in the evening, Grandma & Papa watched the boys while Marc and I had a nice date.  We did dinner and visited some of his friends from high school.  It was a nice evening.  We checked in the Marc's folks before making one more quick stop before heading back and all was great. Both boys were sleeping and for the most part were little angels.   Fifteen minutes later however, we got a call saying Andrew was up and vomiting and had a fever.  We were on our way home.  So, not sure what bug Andrew had, but he felt pretty crummy the rest of the weekend.  He was on Tylenol round the clock and would act like himself for about 1.5 hours in the middle of doses before coming back down and heating back up.  It wasn't fun, but he was a trooper and we survived.

 

Sunday, we went to their church (AJ took Marc and myself out of most of the speaking & Andrew was in his 2-yr old class not feeling well).  We then hit Burger King for a quick lunch (which seemed to cheer Andrew up) and we headed up north to visit Marc's grandparents and introduce them to AJ.  It was nice visit.  We picked raspberries, saw kittens, ate dinner, & had a nice visit.  Andrew did pretty well all things considered.  Dad even dug up a couple raspberry bushes to take home with me to plant.  I am very excited about this as the raspberries straight off the bush were incredible.  Very addicting.  By the time we got home Sunday night, we were pretty much beat. Marc took the opportunity to visit some of his friends, Paul & Ryan (back to back mentions, guys....how do you rate?) It was a very long (but good) day.

 

Monday, was some more of the hanging out & playing.  Dad grilled again, Andrew varied hourly on our he felt, AJ slept all day.  We headed back to MI in the evening and this trip went MUCH better.  Not nearly the traffic and therefore no shortcut needed.  We got in around 2am Tuesday Morning.

 

Wednesday, we did a whole lot of nothing.  Well, I shouldn't say that.  We did sleep, we did hit Kohl's for some much needed work clothes for Marc and myself, and I did hit Meijer for a few necessities.  No fireworks, no grilling out, nothing too exciting, but it was still nice to be home.  However, before bedtime Andrew and I did snap some pops on the ground in our own little Independence Day celebration.