Fall in Ohio

Timmy, Mom, and I took a long weekend to go visiting in Ohio last weekend and had a really great time! The trip was scheduled so that Erin and I could both get our boys up there and introduce them (not to mention meet each other's sons, ourselves!) Her son, Jayce, and Timmy are three weeks apart in age. The last time we saw each other was when Tim and I visited her and her husband Chris while they were living in Edinburgh. Coincidentally, that was just about when we each began to agree with our husbands that it was time to start our families!

We arrived in Ohio around dinner time on Friday and my Uncle Dale, Aunt Paula, and my cousin Ashley, her son Breydon and her boyfriend Chris came over to Grandma's to meet us. I had met Breydon when he was just a few months old, and I was pregnant but not telling anyone yet. Ashley told Paula as soon as I left that I was pregnant though, she said she could tell from 'the way I looked at her baby!' (This may be hard to believe, but I had a similar experience with *knowing* that my friend Natalie was pregnant before she was telling anyone either!) The boys checked out the aquarium together and played a little 'catch' while we all visited.

Saturday we met with Jayce, Erin, her mom Debbie, and sister Chelsea at Chuck E Cheese's! The boys checked each other out over lunch and then played on the slide and rode a fire truck together. There were mixed reviews on Chuck E. himself, Jayce liked to dance with him while Timmy preferred he just stay away! Playtime was cut short as we had my Uncle Donnie's 50th Birthday Party to go to.

Sunday we met up at a gymnastics gym and let the boys run and bounce around for a while before heading off with them and their twin cousins, Connor and Chloe, to go run around a pumpkin patch all afternoon.

After the pumpkin patch, we all went back to Connor and Chloe's house to warm up, have dinner, and play with their toys! Erin and I put Timmy and Jayce in their Halloween costumes for a photo-op too, but I'm not sharing those pictures just yet, don't want to spoil anything for the Halloween post! ;)

I definitely could have used another day for visiting, but we'll be seeing everyone again soon at Christmas! Timmy was a little trooper on the drive both ways, but he was especially easy on the way home. I think having his Great-Grandma back there for company helped a lot! I'm glad we get another week of visiting with her, since our time in Ohio went by so quickly!