Roomie Weekend!!

Last weekend my husband was gracious enough to let me getaway.  And 3 other husbands were too.  My college roomies and I were able to get a girls weekend away, no kids, from Saturday - Monday.  It's been 8 years since the four of us have been together, and the last time it happened, Julie was pregnant with the first kid of the group.  And now, I'm pregnant, with what is seeming to be the last...though you never say never :)

After much consideration, we decided just to stay in Chicago-land area since 2 of us were already here.  So Beth flew in from the northwest and Julie from the southeast, and we had a great weekend of food, comfies, and basketball (it IS March madness after all).  I am just amazed, again, about what a Godly, solid group of friends the four of us are and I'm so blessed that we found each other back in college.  Lots has happened since graduation, but we are still a solid group of friends and I'm very grateful for that!

I truly don't have many pictures from the weekend, but wanted to document what I have for the memory books.

We started the weekend with a brunch at Katie's house Saturday morning, husbands and kids included.  Reid has taken to a baby doll, which are nonexistent in our own house...as of now :)

Beth playing Skip-Bo with Ellie.  I'm sure she's missing that activity now!

After leaving Katie's house, we drove through Wheaton and downtown Naperville, stopping in Starbucks to catch up a little.

We didn't just eat food and lounge around...we also had a roomie bonding time with all of us working out in the hotel gym!  Talk about dedication.

I am in that picture, nice and pregnant ;)  And I promise I worked out...I was just done at picture time.

Lunch at Noodles.

Lounging in the hotel...one of our favorite activities.

We created a chart/graph of all our kiddos.  I might have been obsessed with the chart, but it was a fun little activity.  We realized among the 10 (with one to come) kids in our group, they are all born within 6/7 months of each other, on average.  We also realized that every kiddo has a school buddy with the exception of baby girl Lauffer still to be born, which we thought was pretty neat.

And our last lunch before heading out to the hotel.  We discovered that Beth had missed her flight almost 8 years ago, heading back to Portland from my wedding, so we hurried out of lunch to get to the airport.

Our one and only picture of the four of us.  Not the best shot, but the best we could do.

Thank you girls, for making the effort and time to come and be together.  I love you all and am so blessed to have your friendships in my life.  Here's to next summer in Michigan :)