Weekend at Uncle Jack & Aunt Jessica's

Last weekend we headed to Edwardsville to hang out with Jack & Jessica. Marc took Friday off--which made for a perfect start to the weekend... sleeping in, big family breakfast, and time to pack up together. We hit the road around 2 planning to arrive around the same time Jack would get home. As it turned it out he passed us on the interstate sometime after Springfield--great timing! Friday we grilled out and walked down to the lake to feed the ducks and geese (a favorite activity at Jack & Jessica's!) The ducks were pretty timid, but Marc and Sadie got this goose to come right out of the water. I also had to apologize to this goose because I said he was ugly and apparently that might have hurt his feelings!

Saturday morning we planned to get an 8:00 start to head to the zoo... unfortunately we had a little surprise when we started to load up the car. We left our sun-roof open and it had POURED rain during the night... A LOT of rain! It was quite a mess--mostly just in the front. By the time we cleaned this up and packed up it was 9... oh well! We covered the front seats with towels but Jack and Marc were a bit wet when we made it to the zoo.

The weather was perfect... very warm (in the high 80's) with a little breeze. I hadn't packed any shorts for the kids, but they could have worn them for sure! We had a great morning at the zoo. Sadie's high light was riding the train (she really wanted to do this!) Kinnick loved naming all the animals and Macey was so excited to look at the different animals--she was very happy and easy-going all day!

Snack time--waiting for the train...

Kisses for the penguin!

After the zoo we went to the Spaghetti Factory for lunch. This was our first time taking the kids here and they enjoyed it. They especially loved ice cream at the end of our meal. They also liked walking down town and seeing the horse-drawn carriages.

Saturday night we enjoyed a "movie night" and walked down to the lake to feed the ducks again and also to play on the playground. This playground was on sand and was next to a sandy beach leading to the lake. The kids loved playing in the sand.

Sunday we went to church and then back to Jack & Jessica's for lunch... Macey got a little snooze in on the way home from church!

Sadie wore her new birthday dress from Aunt Jessica (with her pink boots b/c I hadn't packed any appropriate shoes!) On our way home we stopped one more time to feed the ducks, but didn't have any luck--they wouldn't come close enough... I did snap a few pics of the girls though:

We loved the beautiful weekend weather and had a great visit!