Good friends.....good times!

My friend Gretchen does promotions for Backyardigans and she hooked us up with 5th row tickets to the Backyardigans Live show at the Murat. We decided to make a day of it and took the kids to Qdoba (beat out Taco Bell by my vote!!) for lunch. Then we went downtown. At lunch Delaney had told Carson that Backyardigans were coming, just like Sesame Street did (they had NO idea where they were headed at this point). When we got downtown we parked in Matt's lot and then we walked to the Murat. As we got closer Matt was trying to convince Delaney to read the sign on the building, but she wouldn't, so I sang the song to Carson and he guessed what we were doing. The show was wonderful ~ we even bought a CD afterwards so we could sing the songs the whole way home!! Then, we (I think that should be Matt) had this great idea to take the kids to South Bend on the circle to get ice cream. That walk was a little too long for Carson as he spent a lot of it whining!! However, ice cream totally rejuvenated them and we had a great walk back to the lot.

I invited some friends from the church we used to go to over for a play date on Monday. There were 12 kids between the 5 of us! Our kids had so much fun together and were all so well behaved. They only made one HUGE mess, but it is history now and all that remains are the memories of playing together and digging in the dirt. All of our kids have known each other from birth, so we are trying very hard to keep their friendships together...it helps that all of the moms have been friends since before the birth of our children, so we love to get together just as much as they do!!