Happy New Year Part 1

I feel as though our New Years Eve warrants two posts. We had such a great, busy, productive, fun four day weekend. We started off New Years Eve with a road trip to downtown Chicago for an AKA brunch with Grandma.


This is Christopher getting so excited about the big buildings.



Surprisingly, the kids were pretty well behaved during the brunch.



When I said this to Mike he promptly responded you weren't sitting next to Christopher :)



Christopher got out on the dance floor and danced with Grandma.



We then stopped by Frost Gelato in Highland Park to visit our friend Mr. Tom.



We had a great time and some delicious gelato - I can't wait to go back!!!



We then had quite the interesting ride home. We stopped at Burger King to change a massive blowout - I'll spare the details, only to find they didn't have changing tables in the restrooms. I proceeded to change Mikayla in the back of the minivan.  When we were finally back on the road, Christopher had to go to the bathroom. While he was taking his sweet time in the bathroom, Mikayla proceeded to puke everywhere. It was quite interesting, but boy was I glad we had the minivan. It made it pretty easy to change her into her brother's extra clothes since she had already blown through her extra clothes (no pun intended).  We were definitely ready to get home and get the kids to bed so Mom and Dad could celebrate new years ...