January 2012 Moms Get Together!!!

We had a big get together this weekend at Great Lakes Crossing.

Victoria, Scott and Piper drove out from IL to join us and crashed at our place for a few days.  The girls had a blast together!  They all arrived on Saturday around noon.  After having lunch we headed up to Jungle Java to meet up with Bree and Gia for a play date!

 Maddie, Piper & Gia

Me, Maddie, Piper, Victoria, Gia & Bree

The girls all had a BLAST at Jungle Java.  It was nice because they have a separate area for kids 3 and under that is blocked off so the kids are contained.  It was CRAZY busy, but thankfully most of the kids were older and happy playing in the big kids area.  I'll definitely have to take Maddie up there more often because she really ran off a ton of energy and then took a nice nap afterward.

Sunday we were up early with the wee ones.  They hung out and played really well with each other.  They enjoyed the push wagon and Piper was a big fan of Maddie's poker chips (and her sippy cups):

After we got everyone ready and loaded up, we headed off to Great Lakes Crossing to meet up with all the mommas, have lunch at the Rainforest Cafe, let the babies run around in the play place, and do some shopping!

We made a stop at the Disney store and several of the kids were quite happy with their haul.  Ariel and Mickey put some smiles on some little faces!

We all had a great time and the kids seemed to have a blast!  I enjoyed getting to meet the moms IRL and put a face to a name so to speak.  It was pretty awesome because we had 2 Canadian moms make the trip out to meet us too.  Hopefully next time they can bring their kids with them!!!  Can't wait to do it again some time!

Oh!  I almost forgot!  The Canadian moms brought us a surprise from over the boarder: