Weekend in IL

Shawn asked me a while back what I thought about doing a long weekend in IL to visit family--of course I was all about it! Every time we are in town it's usually for some event and it's total chaos. There are million people to see and a million things going on. It's such a whirlwind. So this time it was for no other reason just to see some family and hope to catch up with a couple friends. Last Wednesday we hopped on a plane and headed to Chicago to visit family.Evan has flown twice before: once at 6 weeks old and once at 4 months old. I'll tell you, I prefer to travel with an infant! At 6 weeks all he did was sleep. At 4 months he was a busy body but he was fine. At 8 months, the kid could barely be contained. He squirmed like crazy! Mr. Busy Body. He didn't really fuss or anything--he was actually really good--just wore us out trying to keep him entertained.

We get to Chicago and head to Shawn's parents house where we stayed from Wednesday night through Saturday morning. It was a nice, relaxing visit and everyone got a good chance to spend quality time with little man.

Saturday we headed up to the city and visited a couple of our friends that just had a baby boy and a brand new condo--busy parents! Then we went to my aunt's house on the north side. My parents came up from Champaign and brought my sisters Jane and Angel and my niece Tiana. Lunch was a feast and everyone was ecstatic to see Evan.

After that we went to the Wacaster's for their annual crawfish boil. Shawn got a hold of them and tried to coordinate the boil with our visit and so we were finally able to make it ;-) I didn't eat as many as I did the first time we made it to the boil, but it was good! And it was good to see the crew. We stayed at Val's place and the next morning we went to O'Donovan's for brunch. I LOVE that place! A few people met us for brunch, including Erin and Laura. It was so good to see them!

Then off to the airport. We got home and headed over to Paul and Megan's to pick up Jackson and they had the most amazing spread  waiting for us! It was all so fresh tasting and delicious! We hung out there way past Evan's bedtime and then finally made it home.

Overall it was a great weekend!