WHEW!!!!

We are home from our trip to Wisconsin Dells. We've actually been home since late Friday night, but we are STILL recovering. I made my return to the gym yesterday and decided (despite the exercise I did while there) that it was a magnificently painful process. Though we did enjoy our trip, we have decided that the family vacation thing was a lot more fun when we didn't have our own family. After all, we could stay up till all hours playing games and consuming whatever we wished. All the while knowing we could sleep it off in the morning. I'm sure vacations will improve as our children get older. We hope so at least. For this trip, Jack decided to be wide awake by 0530 every morning, only take one nap a day (if that...), and wake his sister up too when he didn't want to sleep. He did eat quite well while we there though. We are trying to figure out if it is because he liked the booster seat Grandpa Bob made him or he just played so darn hard that he had to refuel. All in all it was a good trip (if you don't count the nightmare on the way home..). We always enjoy seeing the family, hearing stories, and playing games with everyone. Cranium is our new favorite! Since we also only see Jeff's cousins once a year, it is always interesting to see how they have changed/matured. Steph and Alex must have grown over a foot each. Steph spent a lot of time talking to her boyfriend which was wierd and Alex's voice has changed. Morgan brought her boyfriend who she is headed off to college with in the fall, and she brought her own car (that also seemed wierd to us). Samantha will probably outgrow me by next summer. She's too big to sit on my lap and let me rub her back now, but she sure did good keeping Jack entertained. Last year, everyone was trying to coax jack to walk and this year, I think there were times they wished he would just sit still for five minutes. He is definately all boy. Everyone took a turn with Molly (or tried too anyway) and we are really grateful for all the extra bodies to entertain our "youngins" for a while. We look forward to next year!