My long weekend

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I went to Illinois last weekend to celebrate my grandmass 80th birthday. I left last Wednesday night and Jeff drove Ryan and I down to Vegas. We dropped the girls off at a friends house where they stayed until Friday when the went to another friends house until Saturday night when they went to go stay at Jeffs sisters house until Tuesday night. So Thursday morning Ryan and I left at 3:30 am to head to the airport. We made it through security and to our gate with no problems. Ryan fell asleep about 30 seconds into the flight and slept until about 20 minutes before we landed. Yeay!!! Then I met my mom dad and brother Dan at the Chicago airport. We had a three hour car ride to get to my grandmas which was really fun because about halfway through we started taking pictures and we got some really funny ones. Erin flew in later that night and mom and Erin and I spent a few hours trying to get a good picture. We finally gave up and went to bed.

The next morning (Friday) we headed out to Peoria to get some yummy lunch and ice cream. We finally got a good picture of the three of us squeezed into the back of the SUV. Lunch was really good and Emos Ice cream was even better., But I got sick in the middle of ice cream so I couldnt finish it. We spent the rest of the afternoon making dinner and chatting with the family and watching the Olympics. Michael also got in that night.

Saturday we spent going to garage sales (they are really good there) and driving back into Peoria to redo the Emos trip because it didnt end so well the day before and pick up cakes for Grandmas birthday party and Ozzys adoption party. We got back in the afternoon and slept and then went into Tuluca for Grandmas party. It was sooooo good it started out with french bread and flavored olive oil to dip in, then Fried Chicken, Spaghetti, tortolini, green beans and baked potatos. The night was capped off with more olympics at Grandmas.

Sunday we drove about 45 minuted to go to our ward that we went to when we lived in Illinos. It was fun to see people that we haven seen for a while and really funny when everyone would be introduced to Dan and say "little Danny?!?" I grabbed the worlds biggest zuchini on our way out which I think they were giving away but now I am not so sure about. :) Then we were off to my cousin Ozzys adoption party. It was really well put together and once again really fun to see so many relatives that we havent seen in a long time. More Olympics again that night.

Monday was our last day and Erin and I convinced Dan and Dad to take us into Washington to go shopping. I bought some cute jeans at a consignment store and a really cute cell phone chrarm at this cute odds n ends store. That night was more really good food, beef n noodles and corn on the cob. mmmmmmmmm.

We left Tuesday to come home and took a short detour to get real Chicago style Deep Dish Pizza. It was really really good. Ryan was good on the way home and slept most of the time again. We got in 20 minutes early and Jeff wasnt there yetso we got our luggage and went out to wait. It was Jessies birthday so when they picked us up we went and got some dinner before heading home. We got in around midnight and all crashed. It felt so good to be in my own bed and I dont want to leave again for a very very long time!