Parents Need Fun Times Too: Kevin's Birthday Edition

 Diane planned a super fun night for Kevin's birthday with a pink party bus tour around Indy. 

This whole rowdy group showed up to party. 

 Diane made Kevin dance with her on the bus to "I've Had the Time of My Life".  Pure romance!

Then Kevin proceeded to moon people as we drove around downtown Indy.  

 There was lots of dancing...

 And photobombing!

 We ordered and Uber.  He blasted the same 3 songs by Jason Derulo over and over and set up a disco ball on the console.  It was quite a ride home to Westfield. 

 Alan missed most of it. :)

 The next morning we went to McDonalds for breakfast.  Oh man, we NEVER eat McDonalds (they don't have anything Tommy can eat).  What a disgusting treat!! I was SOOOO excited. 

We came home and had a movie night with the family.  So much fun watching Big Hero 6 after missing our kiddos for the night.  So good to be home. 

Vegas 2015!

We went to Vegas in June for a couples trip. We took the opportunity to paaaaaartyyyyyy.


We started in the home pool. Met some friends and took a picture using the memes we had preappoved. (Peace sign, bunny ears, fake wiener if you watch South Park)



The girls got a pic together.



Our room was tiiiigghhhttt. We stayed at the MGM Signature Towers. Great place to stay!



Our room was a super nice suite.



Our view was amazing!




That night, you could find us in da club. We took a quick selfie before heading out. We went to the same club as we went to in 2012.



Why? Because it's outside and the view is awesome!!



We have a good time where ever we go but this club always increases the fun potential.



I didn't get the duck face memo.



We really classed up the place!




The next day we hung by another pool at MGM. It started raining at the perfect time in the afternoon. We had been drinking all day so we needed to take a break before another night of fun. We had dinner reservations so we needed to class ourselves up before dinner.



After dinner, we went to our fave club in Caesars called The Barge. It is the best! It's never crowded and we can totally take over the dance floor and do things like this. Tebowing once again!!


Andrew once again had tummy troubles so he had to go home early but I stayed out with the crew. I was super sad about him having to go back to the room but I was able to muster up the strength to have a good time. 😉



The next day we decided to venture outside our comfort zone and try Wet Republic the day time pool club. It was expensive and way out of our league but we went for it and had a great time!!



There were lots of super rich 20-something's in the pool but we decided we could definitely hang. And hang we did!



Party at the shallow end!!!



The pool got more and more crowded as the day went on.



We had an awesome time!!



There came a moment where it was decided we should leave (after 4 bottles of Tito's, that's a good indicator). Grant's back was in terrible shape so bestie Caveman Stafford helped him walk home several times.


We got lost (and stupid) on the way home.



Seriously. What a mess. It was a good thing we left! Grass is gooooooddd!!!



We tried to turn it around and clean up for dinner that night.



But we were still a mess. Fun happy ridiculously good looking mess at least!



After dinner we did some gambling for the first time all week. On the last day. It was time to go home. Our kids missed us and we were ready to stop the party lifestyle.
All in all a wonderful time was had. But wow, we might be getting too old for this!! 😉


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More From the Weekend

We didn't quite get enough of the Goldmans on Friday night so we decided to come down to visit on Saturday too.  The Drainvilles were going to be in town so we had to visit again.  They're now expecting a baby in December! Exciting! So we had to see them too! You might remember them from such blog posts as the Michigan wedding and the Michigan Lake weekend.

Let's take a look back in time at those weekends/blogposts real quick...

Michigan Wedding (2011): Ack! Where is my hair?? I hope I left those earrings in the hotel. ;-)

Michigan Lake Weekend (2012): I remember seeing this picture thinking "Ew" when looking at my belly but now I would be ecstatic to have that back after baby! HA!  And just imagine, in a few more months, there are FOUR more babies that will come from these couples.  Jeez.  We like to reproduce, I guess.

Sadly, I didn't actually take any picture of adults this weekend but hey, our lives revolve around our kids these days so I guess my pictures reflect that.  (Note to self: Take pictures of the adults too. It is fun to go back and reminisce.)

We grabbed some lunch at Firehouse Subs before we headed down to Westfield.  Look at the hipster fireman on the left wearing his fireman's hat backwards ironically. 

Max and Tommy enjoyed their time in the Bounce House! I love the top pic where he looks like he is flying out of control to the right.  It's rare to get anything but action shots in the Bounce House.  

They also hurled their bodies down the slide over and over again.  Super fun!

 After we all went out to eat, the kiddos had bath time as is tradition at the Goldmans.

I could not get Tommy, Max and Emily to all look at me at the same time.  Oh well.

Then we gave Tommy the choice between sleeping on a queen size air mattress and a crib with a pink sheet. He chose the crib.  He was stoked about the crib for some reason.  He had his dino pillow, Scout and his blankie.  The pink sheet was an added bonus I guess! 

After the kids went to bed, we watched The Dark Knight Rises.  We really know how to get crazy!! :-) 

The next morning we had a total America's Funniest Home Video moment. I think this picture was taken about a minute before it happened.  Max was hitting a ball off his tee.  We cleared everyone out of the way, even telling Tommy to go back by the table, just in case.  Max hit the ball off the tee and it shanked to the right and hit Andrew almost directly in the crotch.  If it had been like an inch higher, Andrew would have been laying in the grass for awhile.  He said it was pretty painful just getting hit in the leg.  I can't imagine if it had been a bullseye! Yikes!

Thanks again, Goldmans, for the hospitality! We had another awesome time as usual! Thanks for having us!

Saturday at the Museum and Cookout at Goldmans

Last Saturday, the boys went golfing so the girls decided to take the kiddos to the zoo.  

Well we planned to go to the zoo but it was raining buckets. We chose the museum instead.  But look at our super cute kiddos packed in the car.  Tommy, Wyatt and Harper were excellent car riders on the way down.

The Children's Museum was a wonderful alternative.  Tommy is still talking about the transformer he saw at the entrance.  Bumblebee! The boys loved it, can't you tell?

Or maybe not? Love those faces.  Hilarious.

The Dino Exhibit was first.  Such cuties.

There was so much to do in and around the dino exhibit.  Play with dino toys? First on the list!

Then we stopped for a quick lunch on the floor.  Tommy broke out in itchy hives on his neck and belly after lunch.  For the life of me, I could not figure it out.  I finally figured it out when I got home and looked at the bag of bread from his sandwich.  There was milk in the bread.  Whoops.  But hey, he worked through it with no barf! That's exciting!

Wyatt munching on a cheesestick. :)

Here the boys are checking out the most amazing train set ever.  Look at that train fly by!

Wyatt and Harper took a race car for a spin.

Then it was Tommy's turn.  You can see Wyatt in the background playing mechanic.

I snapped this picture before the Mad Scientist showed up.  Although Tommy makes a pretty good substitute.

The trio checked out the aquarium fish.

 They also played with the boats in the water flow exhibit.  I am not afraid to admit what I did here. Heehee! I didn't know anyone so I didn't really care.  But Tommy was getting pretty itchy at this point from the hives (bread) so I splashed his neck and belly with the chlorinated water from the exhibit.  People probably thought I was bathing him.  I'm not sure if it helped but hopefully it at least cooled him down a little.  His rash eventually went away so it had to work a little, right??

Poor Tommy.  #WeirdMom 

He certainly didn't mind though.  

Of course his favorite part of the boat exhibit was the flipping HAND DRYER.  HA!

This was another exhibit! What? They put a bunch of mulch into an area and kids could move it around with shovels and wheel barrows and stuff.  Hey kids, I have a museum exhibit in my yard.  Think you could move 13 yards of mulch for me?

This is also the point where I lost Tommy.  He left the digging area and took off.  I had to walk all the way around the exhibit to get to the exit and he was no where to be found.  I scanned the room for a good 5 minutes trying to find him.  Needless to say, I was a bit panicked.  But all the sudden I look up and he was mouthing the railing on this jungle gym thing above my head waving down at me.  I was thinking, "Oh Thank You Lord!" But instead I said, "GET YOUR TONGUE OFF THE RAILING! GROSS!"  :-)

After that, Katie and I agreed it was TIME TO GO. Taking kids to a museum is EXHAUSTING.  It was so nice to go with Wyatt though because Tommy was much braver and trying all kinds of new scary things that he wouldn't normally do.

After the museum, we went over to the Goldmans for a cookout.  There were 7 kids and one newborn. We kept saying, "When did this happen??? How did we accumulate so many kids??" 

Speaking of the newborn, here he is.  This is sweet baby Dean.  He's so little at 2.5 weeks.  I totally forget this age! Exciting that Dean and Applesauce (and Baby Goldman 2 and Baby Holt 2) will be approximately the same age. We definitely have children in shifts in this group. :)

The kids spent a lot of time in the bounce house in the basement.  This is Wyatt, Tommy and Emily in action!

We also spent a lot of time outside. Something about this picture seems familiar? Hmm... someone stepped in dog poop... We had to get out the hose... Hmmm... what does that remind me of?

OH YEAH! The Labor Day Baby Party post.  That was almost 2 years ago!!! Wow! Look at how little Pants-less Max is! Love it!  If you get a chance to look through the post, the kids were so little then.  We didn't even live in Lafayette yet!

Crazy how things change, time flies, and people multiply I guess. :)

The other funny part was that it was a lot of the same people from our Vegas Trip over a year ago.  Definitely not the same kind of partying though.

Wait, maybe it's more similar than I realize?? Naked buns?? HAHA!! Tommy is finally old enough to hang with the big boys (3.5 year olds).

Gotta get those filthy boys clean.  I mean, for heaven's sake, there was dog poop involved in the day and who knows what else with these Theta Chi progeny.

Had to post my #PinterestFail 4th of July Rice Krispie Treats.  Not that they were really a fail but they definitely don't look as pretty as the picture.  But hey, they didn't have any dairy in them so Tommy could eat them.  Vegan Buttery Spread (that was the butter replacement's name) for the WIN!

Later that night, the boys set off fireworks. They were excellent fireworks.  Very illegal looking and sounding. :-)  They scared the living daylights out of Tommy though.

So we came inside to watch the rest from the window.

Thanks, Goldmans, for another awesome cookout! We had a great time.  Tommy keeps talking about the "Transformer at the Zoo"(ha!) and how much fun he had at Max's house.  He can't wait to visit again!