Aunt Rachel graduates

Not to be confused with Donna Martin graduates. (Please tell me you know what that is from?)

Our weekend last was a fun filled one, at best. We took a trip up to Pontiac so that Joe could do a little bachelor partying for Uncle Eric on Saturday. That meant that B and I were free to head over to Champaign to celebrate Aunt Rachel's graduation from UofI. (Yes, we drove from Springfield, to Pontiac, to Champaign, back to Pontiac, and back to Springfield in 2 days. That is our life.)

After a quick-ish hair appointment with my favorite stylist, we packed up the car for our trip southeast. We left at noon and didn't pull into home until 10pm that night. Ex.hausted. Barrett was a pretty great trooper though. He was absolutely beside himself while we walked around campus. He loves being outside but being able to look at so many things and see so many people was just the.best.thing.ever. We headed into Assembly Hall pretty early to stake out a spot for the ceremony. And by pretty early, I mean an hour and 15 minutes before it even started. Yeah. And the ceremony lasted 2 hours and 15 minutes. That meant that we were there for 3 1/2 hours. A 7 month olds attention span is basically non-existent so that meant I got up to walk around a hand full of times. Luckily, before the ceremony started, all the background noise was really relaxing for him. He sat still and happy for the entire hour we sat waiting for it to start. Unfortunately, listening to speeches wasn't the most entertaining thing so he and I took quite a few trips to the bathroom. Overall, though, he was so good. All day really. After the ceremony, we had a late dinner of Mexican and then hit the road back home.

Our day in pictures...















The following day was Mother's Day and I was so exhausted (plus Joe was hungover) that I got zero pictures. You win some, you lose some. We have a non-traveling weekend this weekend so Joe and I are getting babysitters (Thanks Eastons!) on Saturday for a little date night to celebrate our anniversary. So looking forward to that!