This past weekend we headed to Indianapolis. Five years ago, I went with four of my closest high school friends to Tybee Island. We had a great time and decided that we needed to do another trip. Well, now all of us have kids so we decided that we would go somewhere with our families this time and decided on Indianapolis. It was kind of the center point for all of us. Meghan's family lives in Freeburg, Il. (St. Louis area), Autumn's family lives in Lombard, Il. (Chicago area) and Brittany's family lives in Springfield, Il. Heather's family lives in Phoenix, but wasn't able to come to Indianapolis...we missed you Heather!! We left at 5:30 a.m. on Friday morning and met everyone at the Indianapolis Children's Museum around 11 a.m. Friday night, the girls went out to dinner. Saturday, we went to the Park for PBS Kids day, then the kids took naps, then we went to the zoo and ordered pizza and hung out at the hotel. We all left yesterday and I miss everyone already. We had an amazing trip....there were 8 adults and 7 children and all the kids were FANTASTIC and played so well together. It was really fun to watch. I am so lucky to have such wonderful friends!
Here are all the couples we went with and their kids:
Autumn & Mike have Aspen (3 years) and Skylar (15 months)
Brittany & Doug have Mykah (15 months)
Meghan and Tim have Chloe (almost 4) and Grant (11 months)
Here are the boys eating their pancakes and sausage for breakfast in the car on our way.
Keegan & Grant ready to tackle the museum.
Grant & Skylar playing in the sand table.
Chloe & Aspen having fun with the sand.
Keegan playing with the sand (before he decided to eat it).
Landon having fun
Chloe & Landon
Chloe, Landon & Aspen
Landon playing with the boats.
The 3 "big" kids
Playing with the water
Climbing on a tree
Mykah & Britt and Autumn & Aspen on the Carousel.
Landon & I on the Carousel.
Matt & Landon and Keegan sleeping at the museum.
Flying a plane.
Landon & Aspen
Landon, Aspen & Chloe
Keegan & Landon digging up some bones.
We left the museum around 4 p.m. and checked into our hotel. All of us went swimming. Then, the dads took all the kids to TGIFriday's (attached to the hotel) for dinner so the girls and I could go out. What nice husbands :) The four of us had a blast at dinner and it was so great to catch up!! Here we are when we got back from dinner. (Meghan, Autumn, Britt and Me)
Saturday we headed to the park right by the hotel for PBS kids day. Landon was super excited about this, especially since he got to meet all of the Super Readers and Super Grover 2.0! All the characters from PBS kids were at the park for the kids to meet and get their picture with. It started with a character parade....here is Keegan, Tim, Grant, Meghan, Chloe, Landon & Matt watching the parade.
Keegan & Grant hanging out in their strollers.
Wonder Red and Super Why stopped right by us in the parade. Landon was in heaven!! Here is Wonder Red with Landon & Chloe.
Super Why loved Landon in his Super Why costume....giving him a high five.
Keegan watching the parade.
Meeting Super Why....
And Wonder Red....
Landon & Chloe playing before they met the other Super Readers.
Meeting Alpha Pig...
And Princess Presto...
Eating lunch at the park.
Yummy food!
A family pic with Keegan wearing my sunglasses!
The best pic we got of all the kids....Chloe is behind Grant, then Keegan, Skylar, Landon, Mykah and Aspen.
Meeting Super Grover 2.0. We have met Super Grover many times at Sesame Place, but we have never met Super Grover 2.0 so Landon was really excited about this. Here are Landon & Keegan getting ready to meet him.
And finally meeting him.
After the park, we headed back to the hotel for the kids to take naps and then headed to the zoo. Here is Keegan riding in the stroller at the zoo.
The 3 big kids went on a roller coaster at the zoo. Here is Aspen & Autumn.
Chloe & Tim
There they are on the roller coaster. Matt has his hands in the air and so does Tim!!
Landon tried to see if he could run as fast as a Cheetah. He made it 8 feet in the time it would have taken a Cheetah to run 70 feet!
Here is a group photo of us at the zoo.
After the zoo, we ordered pizza at the hotel and then all hung out. Our rooms were right by each other so we put the kids in bed Saturday night and the grown ups hung out in the hallway of the hotel! Sunday morning, we all had breakfast together and then the kids sang a Father's Day song to the dads. Here are the little ones, or as Tim likes to refer to them as the "Second stringers" playing in the hallway.
All the kids getting ready to sing their song.
Landon giving Matt a hug after the song.
Keegan coming to give Daddy a hug too!
The 3 big kids wanted to take a group photo of the rest of us. Landon actually did a really good job getting us all in there!
Here is a pic of the kids taking a picture of the rest of us!
Landon & Chloe hugging each other good-bye.
Thanks for such a great weekend everyone!! We had a blast and can't wait to do it again! I think the guys had as much fun as us girls because they have already started brainstorming ideas about our next trip!!
