Family time

Nate had an ER conference in Chicago last week so we all went along for the week and stayed at Tanya's house. It was really nice to see them again. Nate made the commute to Chicago in rush hour and decided that he NEVER wants to live in a big city like that. Fine by me. It took him over 2 hours in the morning and almost 1 1/2 hours in the evening. He said he got a lot of reading done in the car! Crazy guy!

So anyway, some highlights of the week included a trip to the Jelly Belly factory and making caramel apples. Yum yum.

Dylan and Jackson above. Cassie and the 2 boys below (trying to steal jelly beans).

Sure do love these hats!:

Mckenzie, Jackson, and Dylan above. Cassie below:

Tanya just happened to have these dog leashes lying around (even though they don't own a dog) and so Dylan and Cassie had fun pretending to be dogs. At least they haven't asked to get a dog yet.

It was a nice week. Our time with family is so limited here so I soak it up when I can. Nate enjoyed his conference, running into a lot of old Medical School friends. He even brought me home an Ipod Nano that he got for free! What a guy.

One scary thing that happened while I was there...I was at Target picking up some things when Tanya called and said to hurry home because someone locked the door to where the baby was sleeping and the key was on the key chain that I had (I was driving Tanya's van). So I rushed back to her house and try opening the door with the key and it didn't work. Great. It was actually on the key chain that Brian (her husband) had who was 3 hours away. Great again. So I try to card the door. Nope. I looked for screws to take off the handle. Nothing. So I called a few lock smiths and they cost about $80 to come and it would take them 20 minutes to get there. That would take too long. So then we got a hold of a friend and he came and pried the molding off the door and we got in fine. An hour later. I was pretty calm the whole time and kept myself from freaking out. She was sleeping the whole time, but she was on a big fluffy bed laying on her side and I was afraid she would roll on to her tummy and have a hard time breathing. I know, I am supposed to put her on her back, but she sleeps so much better on her side! But anyways, what a relief!