Feeling the need to travel...

Last Friday when Gaetan got home from school/work we both had the feeling that we wanted to do something epic... we both had the bug to travel.  Our first thought was maybe heading to Rochester, NY because they were having their batizado this weekend... but that might've been to epic.  It's either an 11 hour drive in the car, so we checked out flights... and that wasn't going to happen.  So, we put the cabosh on that.  Next we thought maybe Chicago, but the weather was really rainy and we couldn't really come up with what to do... I tried to get a hold of some friends on the east side to invite ourselves over, but that didn't happen... so... we came up with something to do!

We headed up north.  We have some really good friends up in Ludington, who we don't get to visit as often as we'd like, but since we had the time this was the perfect opportunity.  :)  It's so nice visiting with DJ and Hannah because they are young and have young kids too!  It's fun to swap recipes, and share what has worked as parents and what hasn't.

And OMG do I love smelling new babies.  Baby Ethan is 4 months old (already!) and he's quite a cutie.  Their first son Benjamin wasn't as cute, in my opinion, which was funny to me because I think that they're both pretty good looking individuals.  But Baby Ethan seemed very alert, awake and ready for action.  And of course, he smelled like a new baby, and that is a heavenly scent.  After a fun time and the kids having good laughs and teaching each other new things, it was time to go.  Lucy is usually our meter of when its time to go because she's the one who will crash and burn first.  So, we packed them up, and headed home.  It was a pretty uneventful ride home... which is unusual.  Usually on the way home from their place we get a HUGE rain storm, or the kids will wake up and be unhappy that they're still in the car... but not this time.  It was nice.

Then on Sunday we went to church and headed over to my parents.  We had quite the amount of recycles to take there so we hung out for a bit afterwards.  The weather was so nice again that we played a lot outside.  We helped my parents finish up the rest of their garden stuff and lawn stuff and the kids even played a bit of baseball together.  It was really cute.  Dude was batting, Lucy was the catcher and Papa was pitching.  They were having a good time.  :)

Dude getting ready to hit!

Lucy the catcher getting ready to throw it back to Papa

It didn't make it that far... haha

Am loving all this nice weather!  Kinda crazy that its probably going to snow soon ;)

JVG