Trip to Petersburg

Friday, Feb. 27- Erika watched Stokley for today because Mike is on call 24 hours. I had to drop him off at her house before bible study and then we all went to bible study. After bible study we went back to Erika's to eat lunch before taking off on our trip. We left about 12:30 from Indy and went to meet my mom in Vincenness before we went to Illinois to visit my Grandma and some other family members. We got to spend time with my Grandma and Aunt Cindy the most. We also went to see Charity, Parker and Presley for a short visit. Everyone was getting ready to go to the boys basketball game. My cousin Brian is the coach for Red Hill and they were in their 2nd game of the Regionals. It was a short visit but it was getting late and we were getting hungry. Mom ordered pizza on our way home so we could eat as soon as we got there. My mom almost hit a deer on the way home from Vincennes and I told Ashlyn she would have to tell Papaw about it when we got home and she did. She said, "Mamaw hit(she slapped her face)deer(pointed to her ear)!! It was so cute! Since Ashlyn is in a big girl bed I had to come up with something for her to sleep on at my parents. I found a princess sleeping bag/blow up bed at Meijer and thought we would try it. I wasn't sure how she would do with it. I found out at 2am that she was out of the bed and stuck under the end of the futon where I was sleeping. I pulled her out and put her back in the sleeping bag but she still didn't sleep good.


Saturday, Feb. 28- We got up and ready to go see Jill and Blaine for a play date. We didn't leave there until close to 12:30. The kids didn't seem to play very well this time. They usually have a great time together but it was a bit more challenging this time. After the visit we came home, ate lunch, Ashlyn played with Papaw for awhile before going down for her nap. I was really tired today from such a busy day yesterday. Gram came up to visit and we just relaxed at home for the evening.


Sunday, March 1- We started with church in the morning at my mom's church. Ashlyn kept everyone entertained behind us. She did make it through without leaving the service but it was pretty comical. Here are a few things she did. She clapped and said yea after we finished singing a song, she made faces at the people behind us, she said "amen" after a prayer, our preacher was doing a message before communion and he put out his arms like Jesus on the cross and Ashlyn was standing up holding on to me and she did the exact same thing he did with her arms, when our preacher coughed a couple of times Ashlyn acted like she was coughing and to top it all off, the message was almost over and she told me that she had to go pee pee! Let me remind you that none of this was done quietly. :) We came home and got lunch ready. Gram came up and had lunch with us and brought me dad and I 2 buttermilk pies. I was very excited. After Ashlyn's nap we went to visit my brother and then we made a stop at CVS before heading home. We spent the evening at home and got things ready to go back to Indy. Ashlyn had a really bad night in her sleeping bag bed. When I went to bed she was mostly on the floor with her legs in the bed so I moved her back into the bed. I ended up moving her 3 times during the night because she wasn't in her bed. I'm glad I got a bed rail for her bed at home because it makes me think she must be all over her own bed during the night.

Monday, March 2- Ashlyn woke up at 6 am this morning! The good news to this is that we got to visit with my parents before they went to work. We had a wonderful time visiting with everyone and it was a very entertaining weekend.