Stay-cation

Last weekend we were suppose to go up to Wisconsin & visit Ryan & Alyssa, Abe & Charlie for the weekend & a little mini vacation.  Dusty was looking forward to this sooo much!  However Gia got sick on Tuesday & on Wednesday she was still sick with a 103 temp.  Wednesday she was only AWAKE for 5 hours...So we made the executive decision that we needed to stay home even if her fever was gone on Thursday (we were going to leave that day).

Instead of going to WI I tried to make it a fun weekend at home, hence Stay-cation!  On Friday Dusty got up with the kids and made yummy Pillsbury Orange Rolls, Oliver came up to announce to me that there weren't any left for me :0)  Funny thing is, there never are any left :0)  After Gia took her morning nap we went and grabbed some subs & chips from Jimmy Johns and then headed to the Peoria Zoo.

Eating out Jimmy John's.  Yes Oliver is saying "CHEESSSSEEE!"

Gia saying "Cheese!" she looks kinda funny here but oh well :0)

Daddy & Gia walking while Oliver & Mommy finish lunch.

They have a new Australian Walk Through exhibit and part of it is you go into a cage with birds and feed them.  Oliver loved this...They said next year they are going to charge people for this but for now they are trying to train the birds to land on the sticks & eat the food.

Reaching high

Got one!

Visiting with the Tiger

 After the zoo we headed home and the kids took naps & I headed up to Mom Funk's yarn shop to work on a vest I had been making while dusty relaxed on the couch. That night was so beautiful out that we decided to get our "fire pit" out and roast marshmallows and have S'mores.  At that point Dusty decided that him & Oliver were going to camp out that night.  The day before I had brought up a little tent from the basement for Oliver & Gia to play with & it ended up in Oliver's rooms, he takes his naps there and sleeps there ever since - I need to get a picture!  So we knew he would LOVE sleeping in "The Big Tent".

Oliver liked his not cooked but on the stick

Dusty eating his delicious S'more

Getting ready for bed!  I brought out a matching card game for them & they played that then watched a Diego episode on the KindleFire & then went to bed.

 The next morning the boys got up at 7:30, yes Oliver did sleep the whole night in the tent & he did great!  We got up & made breakfast & while breakfast was baking we got ready to head to Forest Prairie Part? I believe that is what it is called.

Adding the fresh fruit to the bowl.  We also had yummy coffee cake!

Starting off on the trail.  Little did we know it was actually the Hike for Hunger so it was  a pretty busy morning on the trail.

Gia preferred to walk

Waving Hi!

This was our view of her most the time, she did SO GOOD!

This was Oliver's means of transportation.  He did not want to walk, although we did make him for at least half the time  :0)

Relaxing back at the end!

And this concludes our Stay-cation.  Because along with staying at home is work!  That day I mowed, I haven't done that since for Gia's birthday, that is how dry it has been! And we started re-doing the Guest bedroom by taking the wall paper border down.  The room was bright yellow with a border then under the border it was stripes of bright green & blue...very ugly!  Dusty brought the steamer in to take down the border & Oliver walked in and said "No!  Daddy, that's Mama's (grandma) room!!!" he was quite upset but we assured him that she would like this better :0)

Even though we had a nice weekend we were still bummed we didn't get to go to WI.  But in 3 weeks (or 4) we will be heading up!  Sorry it has taken me so long to update!

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