Road Trip 2010! Part 2

Gosh, I have had no computer time since we returned from our trip. Things have been incredibly busy at work, and then at night we've been watching recorded World Cup games at night. I grew up in Europe and Davis played soccer in Germany when he was younger and his family was stationed there, so the World Cup is a big deal at our house. I literally couldn't sleep most of last night because of yesterday's USA game!

Anyway, the rest of our trip to Wisconsin was great. My favorite part was just staying at my cousin's house - I love her and I love her family, and it makes me sad that we don't see each other more often.

This was everyone's first time meeting Henry, and he got lots of attention!

That's Ava in the middle. She's my Goddaughter and I love her to pieces! Sunday I stole her away for about an hour, so we would get a little one on one time together. We went to an arcade-type place and played and talked, it was great! Then Davis left to visit some friends in Lake Geneva. My cousin's husband was off camping, so it was my cousin and me and six kids - she said we were very outnumbered and she was a little worried about a mutiny ha ha!

It was funny when Sophia and Hannah came out wearing the same dress!

We went hotel-pool swimming again (have I mentioned how great hotel pools are?!) See those waves? My other cousin, Jeff, was there and he played with the kids - they had SO SO much fun!

But back to Saturday... one of the main reasons for the trip was to have a memorial dinner in honor of my grandmother, who passed away in January. So we met up with my dad's side of the family and some of my grandmother's friends at a German restaurant in Milwaukee.

To make sure the kids were well-behaved at the restaurant, we first went to the Betty Brinn Children's Museum. It was really fun, but VERY crowded.

Even Henry got in on the action

Then we headed to the restaurant for dinner

My dad brought the girls these dresses from Austria, and I LOVE them! I actually wore dresses like this when I was little. I'll have to dig out a picture and scan it in - my hair was as blonde as Amelia's too.

My grandmother loved having her picture taken, so we are blessed with many, many photographs of her. She was really beautiful.

My brother doing magic tricks for the kids - he's going to be the best daddy (to a baby BOY!! We just found out!) soon!

I was proud of the kids. It was a fancy restaurant that wasn't very kid-friendly, and it was a long dinner, but they did great. By dessert time, it was way past their bedtime. You can see Amelia here, getting sleeping, but braving her way through a cup of ice cream :)

Poor Henry was beyond exhausted. He had just been dragged around all day and just wanted to sleep.

But there were lots of people to love on him, and he made it through.

The cutest was when Aunt Brittany showed him his reflection in the mirror - he would lift up his eyebrowns and grin at himself. It was SO cute!

Our trip home - in Part 3.