900 Mile Weekend

I'm fairly certain I never want to be in a car again.  After logging almost 1k miles on my car this weekend, I think I may have permanent damage in my right driving ankle!

Baba, Eva and I all left Friday after work for my friend Casey's baby shower in Chicago.  Little did we know that there were major wind advisories for the entire state of Wisconsin that we were driving through.  My car, which was getting 39-40 miles per gallon the previous weekend on our women's retreat, got a whopping 26-27 miles per gallon this time around.  We were almost blown off the road by the gusting winds countless times.  It was no bueno.  Grandpa Bryan even offered to get us a hotel all the interstate so we wouldn't have to keep driving.  But I pushed on and we finally made it the in-laws house outside of Madison, WI around 9:00pm.

Saturday was the actual shower and aside from annoying tolls (which the state of Illinois obviously does not use to keep their roads in good condition) there was no traffic- amazing for Chicago!  The shower was fun and swapping mommy stories is always a hoot as I have some of the "best" ones around.

After the shower we drove back to Stoughton (southeast of Madison for the non-Midwestern blog readers) and had a cook out with Jason's mom, dad, stepdad, stepmom, sister and sister's good friend.  The cook out turned into a wine fest in the hot tub... which turned into a trip to the Pour House on Main Street... which turned into way too many beers and shots of Patron... which led to massive amounts of dancing and singing along with the live band... which led to more hot tubbing and drinking back at the house... which all ended in Mallori gloriously praying to the porcelain god this morning while everyone laughed at her from down the hall.  The weekend was truly awesome.

Now we're back at home in Minnesota and ready for week two of Montessori school.  Life is good.  But driving still sucks.

Big girl champagne flute at the shower (which Baba quickly put the kabash on!)

Cheeeeese

Helping Auntie Casey open gifts

Mmmm chocolate popsicle

Eva's ready for the hot tub!

With her new BFF Dustin

Let the dance party begin

She was feeling no pain

Crashed

Shouldn't we all start our days the Eva way?

There she is... she's Miss America!

That's all folks :-)