I was not able to watch The Office last Thursday...

We had a crazy night last week. For those of you that didn't hear, check this out.

"As Chicago As It Gets"

So we've set the dates for our big Chicago weekend... yay!! December 7th -9th all of the ladies of my family will be spending the weekend downtown, eating, shopping and visiting Santa.

Here's a picture of the tree in the Walnut Room. This is where we always eat lunch after waiting in line for 2-3 hours.

I think this was my third year seeing Santa at Marshall Field's... poor Amy.

This picture was taken two years ago... right before Macy's took over. :(
I just found this site... kind of crazy. I love Marshall Fields, but really??

Fall is here...
Yesterday Tim & I went up to Edwardsburg with Larry, Brandi and Jace for a hayride and we had a ton of fun!! After the hayride we headed to church & coffee and then then we hit up IHOP for dinner. What an perfect fall day. We were even able to go on a beautiful fall ride through Michigan [Tim took the LONG way to church, minor detail :) ] I was able to have all of my fall fav's in one day. Here's some pictures from our afternoon:

That's a big chair.

Larry and Jace feeding the goats.

The goats fighting over food:

This was one of our stops along our hayride:

If you put your feet in this direction...

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Nashville or Bust

So Ann & Andrew had planned to go on a cruise last week... long story short, their flight was canceled and they missed their boat. Ann called me at work on Monday asking me to take the rest of the week off and hit the road with her, Andrew & Tim. Here's the details of our mini-vacation.

Here we are on our way...

This is how the boys spent their time...

Andrew making sure he got everything he ordered for dinner...

Driving through Louisville

This is what I look like in Louisville

Andrew on the phone with American Airlines

Stopping to get gas in Bowling Green

Ann and Tim playing catch...

We were stuck in traffic 20 miles from our hotel.
No one moved for 45 minutes.
It was a very bad accident. The jaws of life were used.
We made the most of it by jumping out of our car to take pictures...

We finally made it...

We're planning what to do while we were in town

Our complimentary fish, plant and lava lamp...

Here we are at the Opryland...

Who do you think wanted to stop here?

Ann's beautiful parallel parking job:

Downtown Nashville

Ann & Mr. Stash

Driving around trying to get downtown.
[Ann is taking the wrong exit]Round two... tada!!

More of what the boys did while we were in the car

Our hotel... we highly recommend it!!
[Hotel Preston]

Tim and Andrew checking out the memorial

Andrew dared Tim to run through the fountain...

the tour bus from 1952

Heading to dinner

Eating at our fancy restaurant

getting ready for bed on our last night

It was 9:00 am... aren't we lucky ladies to have these guys??

Tim & Ann packing the car...

I'm not helping...

neither was Andrew...

Taking a break in Kentucky...

Ann's parking job at our first outlet mall on the way home...

Dinner at RUBY TUESDAY.... yay!!