And an over 12 hour car ride with 3 kids is not the ideal way to relax in case you were wondering. I seriously wished for one of those limo windows that blocks out noise many a times but we powered through and made it in one day. Abishai was a rockstar for the most part considering he was strapped in to a car seat for an entire day each way and I have a strict “Hunger Game’ philosophy about what happens in the ‘way’ back seat: whoever emerges so be it and what happens back there..don’t bother me about it.
After driving on winding mountain roads I was about to yak thus necessitating a pit stop in Chattanooga on our way there. Luckily for us it is awesome!!
The girls were so pumped to play in water and Abishai’s feet had never been outside without being covered EVER in his WHOLE life so as you can see he was feeling it!
Our first morning there we headed to Dutch Monkey Doughnuts. I usually am not a doughnut fan but let me just say this place is amazing! Everyone agreed.
You can watch them making the yumminess. and then time for decisions, decisions.
We will blame the sugar
“Mama, this doughnut is the best!”
Even Abishai got his first taste of doughnut. Parenting FAIL.
Mostly we just hung out, destroyed the Shoe house (sorry!), played at parks, and listened to the girls sing Frozen songs over and over, and we had one big day out. it was the perfect pace for us. We also fell in love with this new guy…
littlest boy cousins
We love us plenty of Papa bonding time
Cosmic Kids yoga sessions in our PJ’s took up much of our time
fabulous popsicles at a local coffee shop (there was some drama about who got the last strawberry one as you might be able to tell from the photo)
“Mama, look at my ninja moves” Because Evy.
me and my homegirls heading out (you would be correct to assume there was lots of car dancing)
And just because I cannot resist..I give you the “fashion show” that ended in tears.
Girl drama. You gotta laugh or you too will be in tears.
We hit up Lego Land and the kids (including the big kid Jason) loved it
Then we headed downtown to Centennial Park to check out the fountain
Claire & Anni were the only brave crazy ones to jump IN the fountain on a 55 degree day
After surviving Chiberia it felt like heaven to have warm sun on our skin and enjoy being outside even if it was a bit “cool” for the South.
The grown folk even escaped one night for a date night!
Abishai was not feeling this picture but it is a perfect snapshot of life right now. Full of chaos, tears, spit up, snuggles, toothless grins, pigtails, rubber-band bracelets, drama, and plenty of cousin love. It was a great spring break!
And I seriously love the following video (even though my laugh is completely heinous)! This was taken in our VERY slap happy moments driving home and I want to forever remember our family right now dancing through the chaos. So ‘Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof!’
So Happy I infected you with that song 🙂
You summed up the week well! Love y'all! 😉
Is it just me, or does Charlie look like the Dill boys as babies?