Columbus....

So on Thursday we headed down to Columbus for a little 24 hour vacation and temple trip. It started with Andy and I going to take turns at the temple and then we would hang at the hotel, swim, and do whatever, but then turned into hanging with friends, and Andy and I being able to go to the temple together.

We have recently had confusion about Andy's vacation and he was feeling bad so he planned for us to stay at the hotel after going to the temple. Well the temple is in Columbus where his best friend from high school lives, so Andy called them to see if they wanted to get together for dinner or something. Jeremy called us back and offered to watch our kids so that we could go to the temple together. So we loaded up the kids and luggage and drove down to Jeremy and Jordan's (and they have the cutest little girl named Adalynn), quickly dropped off the kids at their house and went to the temple.

The temple was amazing! It is such a beautiful and peaceful place.

Afterwards we picked up the kids and found Porter in heaven as he was playing the Lego Star Wars game with Jeremy on the X-Box, Jordan was holding a un-happy Tessa (I am a bad mom and forgot to leave her food in the bag), and Carlee was playing with Adalynn. We went back to the hotel and Andy took Porter and Carlee for a quick swim before they had to go to bed.

The next morning we woke up and ate the most amazing continental breakfast ever. It had bacon, eggs, sausage, fruit, juice, make your waffle, and doughnuts. The kids were in heaven. After eating we went swimming again, and then Jeremy, Jordan, and Adalyn came too. After hours of being in the pool, we got out, got ready and went back to Jer's house. They invited us to go and shoot Jeremy's new graduation gift(he graduates from med school this week). It was such a beautiful day and we had so much fun being outside watching Andy and Jeremy shoot the gun. I had a great time talking to Jordan and getting to know her better and watching the kids pick up the shot gun shells. After the shooting was over we loaded up and headed back home, un-loaded the van, and went back out the door to the drive in to see UP (a very cute movie). The kids were exhausted by the time we got home at midnight, but it was all worth it.

Thank you Andy for providing us with such a wonderful 24 hour vacation and thank you to Jeremy and Jordan for watching the kids and for hanging out with us, we had a great time.