Anyway, we only had 2 full days in Plano, but we had a great time. The first day Grammy picked up the kids and took them to IHOP for breakfast and then to Smashing Times for the kids to make a mosiac. Brett and I met up with my best friend from college my freshman year that I haven't talked to in forever. We both pledged different sorrorities our sophomore year and unfortunately grew apart. Thanks to Facebook we reunited and I found out she's been living in Highland Park the whole time I was living in Dallas. Too bad we didn't know that earlier so we could have hung out. Later that afternoon all of the McDonalds met for dinner and then we went for an evening swim at Grammy's neighborhood pool.
The next morning Grammy treated all of the girls at the spa for manicures and pedicures. I know she has some great pics from that so hopefully I can get them from her one day and get them on here. Even Grace, who's 2 1/2, went and had a great time. Brett, Cade, Blond Todd and Baby Will stayed home and had some male bonding time. After getting pampmered we headed to Sam Moon for some shopping. When we got back from Sam Moon Grammy took the kids to Target to the dollar spot. When we lived in Allen, Grammy would get the kids for breakfast every Friday and then head to Target to the dollar spot and Cade remembers that very well and insisted on his time at the dollar spot. Then it was time to say goodbye to the McDonalds because we had plans that evening with Kim and Dusti and their families and we knew we'd get home just in time to get to bed and we were leaving early the next morning.
Me and my bffs, Dusti and Kim! As always, we had a great time catching up with each other while all the little ones ran around. As the kids are getting older, it's getting easier to talk since we don't have watch the kids as closely. Love those girls and it still makes me sick that Kim and I were going to be right down the road from each other. One day we'll move back to Texas and we'll be neighbors....
Dusti and Mike had their birthdays the day before we got together so Kim got cupcakes for us to celebrate their bdays. You can see the kids LOVED the cupcakes with bright icing. This is Kim's beautiful little girl Katelyn modeling the blue icing!
Cade is demonstrating how he shovels food in his mouth. No time to play around with his food. This boy just inhales!
Maddi modeling the orange icing and Dusti's precious daughter, Reese, modeling bright pink icing. Kim's son, Tanner, would not cooperate with me for a picture and Dusti's boys, Gavin and Zach, apparently don't eat so no pics of them.
Here's Maddi with cute little Reese. Maddi has a way with little kids and they all just love her and follow her around. Of course Maddi enjoys the attention and she kept talking about how cute Reese was.
We had so many other friends and family we wanted to meet up with but instead of running around trying to meet with everyone during our short time we just spent our time with family and relaxed. Unfortunately it was time to say goodbye to our friends and family and time to get back to our life in Chicago. We drove straight through (14 hours driving time) and the kids were AWESOME! Having GPS is so great because the kids would just look at the estimated arrival time and the current time on the clock and figure out how much longer we had. No more asking "are we there yet?" "how much longer?". We got home at around 1 a.m. and we were tired but it was so nice to wake up and have all of Sunday at home to unpack and get settled in. The kids were so happy to be back home and our neighbors were quite happy to see us too. They played with friends all day while Brett unloaded all the baby stuff from the Uhaul and I put things away. We had a wonderful 3 week cross country trip filled with lots of memories, but there's no place like home!
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