"The Group" Family Weekend 2013

This past weekend our group once again got together for a lovely weekend, although the Schlipf family was unable to make it this time. We all drove to Indianapolis, where a few of us met at the zoo for a few hours, and then we all joined together at a local park in Carmel for a beautiful afternoon outdoors. As the evening rolled in, the women took the kids to the pool, while the guys got together at the Bahlers to talk. After church in Indy the next day, it was the girls' turn-- we walked Broadripple before chatting a bit in a local coffee shop. Only Callum was able to join us on our excursion. Then we all joined up for pizza at Bazbeaux before heading off in our separate ways. The boys did great and loved it, although Aiden sorely missed his usual long naps (and was cranky because of it), and poor Callum was just down-right exhausted from the breezy Saturday afternoon!

An extra bonus was getting to spend Friday night with Morgan and Kyra for a game of Dixit, along with popcorn and blueberry malt shakes (where the two guys stayed awake and caught up with each other until 4am-- thank goodness Kyra and I didn't wait up)!

 So this picture cracks Joel and I up, because Aiden wanted his applesauce (which we wouldn't give him until he ate his chicken), but had drank his lemonade up so fast that he had nothing left when he went to eat his chicken. Poor kid had a mouth full of chicken for probably at least 10 minutes, but couldn't get it swallowed because it had gotten dry in his mouth. We ended up just letting him have his applesauce to help wash down the chicken :)

As for dinner, what does grilled chicken nuggets + applesauce + lemonade = ???

Chick-fil-A :)

You know your husband loves you when he scouts out ahead of time the nearest Chick-fil-A in our route to Muncie, and is not discouraged when he finds out that it is in a mall food court, parks in the wrong area and has to trek it across the mall with our orders, and finally we are driving away and on the other side of the mall is a brand new unattached Chick-fil-A store (that we could have done drive thru in about 1/4 of the time)!!

Yup. He loves me. :)

Gotta love it when these two get together...

 ... and look at surgical photos...

 Aiden didn't want to leave the elephants...

 

 All the children, minus the three Bahlers', four Schlipfs', two Virklers' and a Baner.
So really, I guess that means only 50% of the kids were in the picture :)

 Trying to float

Liam is already talking about how he misses everyone and can't wait to see them again. I haven't told him that the family weekend only comes once a year, poor guy! Luckily we get to hopefully see these couples again this winter!!