Trip to Minneapolis

This year one of the kids Christmas presents was a trip up north to Minneapolis.

Nothing like heading north in the middle of the winter. It was freezing. Like froze all our bottled water in the car type of freezing!

We stayed at the Embassy Suites. We love their breakfast and well we need space so suites are about all that works for us anymore.

We hit up the pool multiple times. They had a huge hot tub!

We went to the Mall of America on Friday. The kids didn't have school. Thankfully Papa and Frama were willing to tag along otherwise I don't think we could have managed all these guys and squeezed in some fun.

After trying a few rides and being reminded of the price tag by d the entire time we headed to lunch at the Rainforest cafe. Minus the scary storm sequence which freaked a sleeping baby and a moving snake that had z clinging to my leg we had a huge lunch and were so stuffed. 

 We  hit up the lego store. The sculptures were so cool and the kids were in awe. After talking them about price range we left with an angry birds set up for sage and the bat mobile for shadd.

they probably would have played here all day

 Then us girls went to tea time. There was a ton of food. So next time we will not be eating lunch prior. The store treated ells and her dolly and us like royalty. We left with lots of goodies and would totally recommend tea time for anyone! It was super fun!

Meanwhile the boys were dealing with an epic stink bomb during mini golf. First sage lost his putter over the side so like floor three to two kinda thing. Whoops. And then z had a huge blowout. Up his back etc. We were potty training but put a diaper on for the day. Thank goodness. However it was everywhere. They brought the stinking dude to me looking for wipes only to find out well we didn't have any as I had used the last of them on laz earlier in the day. Needless to say, I apologize to whoever used the bathroom after I cleaned up that mess. And well wipes are way way better then toilet paper. He got a bath immediately when we returned to the hotel! YUCK!

I swear you name it we've probably had it happen to us. I guess thats what 5 kiddos does to ya. You experience just about everything! Ahh well!

We had a blast and the kids did great. Laz still could you some sleep work in hotels but so it goes.
We even got to stop and drop in on some of our besties up north who had a new baby. So it was such a great trip. The kids can't wait to go again! And things can only go better and better each year I hope!