Good Times with Old Friends

Our great friends Aaron and LE and their three children came to visit! We LOVE having visitors! Pete and Aaron have been great friends for a very long time. Aaron was Pete's best man in our wedding and Pete was his. We have spent many weekends with Aaron and LE. Back in the day, we were all about having fun and, well, how shall I say this, partying! But life is so much better now that all of our "partying" is revolved around our children and letting them have all the fun while we try our best to be the parents God intended us to be.

Our first outing with The Yanelli's was to NYC. Yes, that is right! We took six children, ages 6, 5, 4, 3, and two 1 1/2 year olds to The City! We were frantically walking the streets looking for a place to eat. The kids were "starving" and we were cold! It was 42 degrees, but with the wind chill factor it felt more like 20 degrees! We were pretty much turned down by two restaurants because we had "too many kids". We finally found a restaurant that would take all of us. And it was great. The food was good and the service was great....I highly recommend it, but can't remember the name. And now that the children were fed we could go The Museum of Natural History. Remember the movie Night at The Museum? This is where the movie was filmed. It is a great museum!

"Gum, Gum! Dumb, Dumb!"

Our next stop was to Battery Park to see the Statue of Liberty. By this time, it was even colder and the wind was blowing harder. Luckily, we found great parking. We walked out to look at Lady Liberty and turned right around to get back into the car where it was nice and warm.....no time for pictures! I saw the craziest thing while we were walking back to our car. There was a ginormous bird hanging out on a tree branch. I yelled out to everyone to look at my discovery and the kids freaked out! Especially, Alli......if you know my daughter well, you know that she is scared of everything! They started yelling out, "It is a dinosaur! It is a dinosaur! It is going to get us!" Well, back at the museum, we watched a film. And the kids really paid attention! They remembered that it said that all walking dinosaurs became extinct, EXCEPT THE FLYING ONES.......which evolved into other types of birds. Alli and Madison really thought that this bird was a dinosaur!  A man who worked at the Coast Guard office where we parked was nearby. He heard the hysterics (mostly coming from Alli) and informed us that this bird was a wild turkey that has lived there for 10 years now and her name is Zelda. It really was SO FUNNY!

The rest of the weekend was spent just hanging out while we enjoyed having our friends around. The kids got along great! The only problems we had were between the two little ones. They were not too excited about having to share the baby toys! Having a house full of 6 kids was lots of fun! There was only one major accident. Tori tripped and hit her head right above the middle of her eyes on the corner of her dresser. The bump came up immediately and I FREAKED OUT! I am so bad about that......I know as a mom you are not suppose to freak out in front of your children. I CAN NOT HELP IT! I saw this huge bump right in between my baby's eyes and did not know what to do! She is fine. She still has a bump and the bruise is now going around her eye. My poor baby! She is always getting hurt. I think I might make her wear a helmet around the house!

Bruiser One and Bruiser Two

Of course we colored eggs.

 

    The Easter Bunny filled their baskets.

And then the egg hunt began!