Weekend Upate

Hello all:)

Well our weekend started with one LONG day Friday. I dropped Olivia off at school and then drove to my grandparents house to pick up their tow dolly. Grandpa helped me get it all hooked up and then I was on the road. I had a 4.5/5ish hour drive to Northern Chicago to pick up Jeff. It was a looong ride with a wiggly empty tow dolly behind me.
Jeff ran around like a crazy man all morning trying to get all of his paperwork signed off on so that he could be released. He accomplished everything, except on tiny little signature of one important man who does not work Fridays! Long story short, he was able to come home for the weekend, but had to go back Sunday night to report for his LAST day monday. He'll be there all of three hours on Monday!

Our drive home was less than fantastic. We entered Chicago rush hour traffic right at 5:30 and didn't get out of it until well after 8pm! Yes, stop and go for over two hours! Then we stopped in Indiana for dinner. At midnight we were passing by Kalamazoo and met Adam and Brynn for coffee and amazing doughnuts at a 24 hour place! It recharged us enough to make it the last two hours home! We were originally supposed to keep driving to drop off the car and tow dolly, but we just couldn't do it!!!!!! We were so exhuasted! We got home around 2am and passed right out!

Saturday morning while I had bunny sessions, Jeff did all of the running around town to take care of the car.

That afternoon we took the kids to one of their favorite places, Cabela's. It's a huge outfitter/hunting store about an hour away. They have a huge mountain in the middle full of 'stuffed' animals. A full size elephant, rhino, buffalo, deer, moose and all sorts of other stuff. (don't worry, they were all protected wildlife from sanctuaries that died of natural causes). The kids love to see them and realize the full scale of the animals.

Then today, Sunday we went out to breakfast with the Nelson family and an hour after that Jeff was gone again. He had to be in Chicago by 6pm.

If all goes well, he'll be out of there tomorrow afternoon and home for a day or two until he has to report to Virginia.