Colby spent Sunday night with my parents. They brought him home after lunch on Monday. Lindsay and I stayed home that morning and worked on getting packed up for the trip.
Tuesday I had Bible Study so my parents came to keep Lindsay and Colby and I went to that. Afterwards we rushed home to get last minute stuff done for our trip. We left about 3ish...Lindsay took a nap but Colby did not. Neither slept in the car. I guess they were both excited about their trip! We got in to Hattiesburg at about 5:15. We decided to go straight to somewhere to eat dinner. Austin's parents met us there. We ate at Rocket City Diner. Its a very casual, kid friendly place. Both kids were really tired though. Colby was so excited though about being with mawmaw and pawpaw. We left the restaurant and went to the apartment to get unloaded and unpacked. Colby wanted to go swimming. We figured while I put Lindsay to bed he could swim for about an hour. Austin's parents joined him and Austin out there. I hate that I miss out on some of this but Lindsay was exausted and honestly the quiet time wasn't that bad! Once Colby came in we got him ready for bed also.
Wednesday we were up and at em early. Shelbi and Maggie were coming to Hattiesburg for the day so Colby was anxious to get to their house to play. We went over there and had breakfast. The kids wanted to swim. We decided to leave Colby there and let him enjoy playing with the girls while we took Lindsay on some errands. We made it to Campus Book Mart to stock up on USM gear for the fall. Lindsay was melting down though so instead of more errands we just drove around. It was fun driving and reminscing. She slept through it all! Around 10:45 Austin dropped Lindsay and I back off at the apartment b/c it was nearing her lunch and naptime. He then went to a bounce place to meet his parents with Colby and the girls. From what he said Colby had a blast! Afterwards Colby went back to their house to spend the afternoon. We knew with the girls over there he would want to stay with them. Plus even if we brought him back to the apartment he probably would not have taken a nap. We enjoyed the quiet time though and resting. Once Lindsay woke up from her nap we went back over there though. You could already tell at that point Colby was getting tired. We ate a VERY early dinner...like at 4:30. Shortly after that we knew it was time to get both kids home. We had them both bathed by 6. Lindsay was in bed by 6:30 and Colby not far behind at 7. They both slept really well...well until 4am is when Colby got up. We just left him in bed with us since he and Lindsay were sharing a room. Usually we would not allow that but I would rather deal with him at 4am then a screaming, tired baby!
Thursday once we all got up we took our time getting ready. Since Wednesday was such a busy day we knew we wanted more time to rest. Once we all got dressed we went up to the mall. We got there so early though nothing was opened. We didn't stay long at all. We decided to run some other errands with both kiddos. By the time we got back in the car Lindsay fell asleep. I told Austin to bring her and I back to the apartment. He dropped us off and Colby and him went to his parents to visit for awhile. They came back around lunchtime. Once Lindsay went down the 3 of us had a pizza lunch then we all took naps! We could tell Colby was still exausted from the day before and his waking up early. That afternoon when everyone got up we went out to the country to Austin's sister's house. They live about 30 min outside of Hattiesburg. Colby was so excited to go out there. He loves riding the 4wheelers. It was a nice visit. I think Lindsay loved watching the big kids! Its hard going out like that b/c she gets tired so early so she was ready to go wayy before Colby. So we let him stay longer and come back with Austin's mom and dad. She probably could have lasted until 7ish but she missed her late afternoon nap all 3 days we were there so she was exausted. It worked out well though b/c we got her all bathed and put to bed so by the time Colby got home we just had to focus on him. It took him awhile to settle down and go to sleep though.
Friday morning we got packed up and headed home. It was a nice vacation, break, getaway but its always nice to get home too. Just SO much to do! Especially with 2 kids b/c the time of getting stuff done is so limited. Yesterday austin and I were so busy! That night we did get to hang out and eat dinner as a family of 4 which was nice though!
We had a blast and look forward to our next trip up there! Hattiesburg is always a nice visit and its so good to see Colby making memories he will remember forever! Now going to try and get back to a routine around here!
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