I wish we could do that every weekend.

Recently I mentioned that my little family was going on a little trip to see another little family.  And this past weekend we did it!  Lonnie, Blakely and I packed up and headed to Pittsburgh to see Bridget, Steve, Emily and Gavin!  

Bridget and I have been super close for the longest.  It all started when we went through IVF together and got pregnant with our miracle babies.  That was almost 3 years ago.  It was time to meet for realzz.  

We had been talking about planning some sort of trip for a while but it just never would work out quite right.  When our last IVF failed, I told Lonnie that the next time he was off we were going.  End of story.  I needed it and Bridget did too.  He said ok (didn't even question it!) and I booked the trip!  

I have never met a blogger before and, to be honest, I wasn't nervous.  I mean, it was Bridget.  We text every day.  But when you tell other people (who don't know you have a blog) that you are going to Pittsburgh to meet someone you met on the internet, well, you get some funny looks.  And some c.atf.ish comments...HA!  

Anyway, we flew out on Thursday and I won't even tell you about our day of traveling.  You don't want to know.  I will say that we got up at 5 that morning (for a 10 o'clock flight) and were supposed to get to our hotel at 3 and then head over to Bridget's house.  We ended up getting to our hotel about 900 that night.  It was a long day and I was sad that I had to wait another day to meet them but we were exhausted.

Finally on Friday morning we went to their house.  On the drive over there Lonnie asked me if I was nervous.  I wasn't but when we turned onto her street my stomach did do about 10 backflips.  I mean we were really here.  Finally, after a zillion emails, even more texts, and too may skype chats to count I was going to see her in real life!  Crazy.  

And, just like I suspected, it was like we get to see each other every day.  :)  If only we did get to see each other every day.  :( 

So I know all you want to see is the pictures of our adorable kiddos, right?  Well here ya go!  

We went to this awesome zoo where you can pet and feed the animals.  Emily just loved feeding them and squealed with delight every single time.  

Blakely was like no way in hell I'm feeding that thing.  I'll just eat the carrot instead.

Gavin was just happy to chill.  That baby is the best.  I'm not even kidding. He just giggles and smiles all.the.time.  Awesome.  But we can all agree that Bridget deserved an easy baby after the honey badger baby, amiright?

Love this one of the girls checking out the lions.  They kept saying RAWR! 

The first thing Lonnie said when he saw E is WOW!  I thought Blakely was tall!  

Look at those adorable shirts Bridget had made for the girls.  I haven't been able to get B to take it off.  

After the girls napped we headed back over to their house to cookout and lets the girls run around and play.  We had beautiful weather and they have the perfect backyard setup.   

we weren't excited or anything ;)

E and G had on their Arkan.sas Ra.zorbacks gear that I got for them when we showed up the next day.  Those are some pretty cute HOG fans!!!  

We didn't get a pic of the kids in the jammers I got them but I just have to share because OMG CUTENESS.  

Saturday was spent playing outside even more and meeting Steve's parents who live across the street. 

The plan was to have them watch the kids while we went to the Stee.lers game that night.  I was nervous, I can't lie.  No one besides family members have watched B and only a few of them have put her to bed.  I was nervous until I met Stan and Jeanne.  Y'all.  They are so sweet and you can just see the love they have for Emily and Gavin oozing from their eyeballs.  It is awesome to see.  I immediately felt comfortable and B instantly warmed up to them too.  So to the Steelers game we went!  When we left they were outside playing on the swingset so B didn't care a bit that we were leaving.  WIN!  

The game was super fun but the best part was getting to talk with Bridget the whole time.  I don't think we shut up at all.  The people around us were probably so annoyed!  I do love me some football but I am a Patrio.ts fan for life!  But this may have made me come around to the Steel.ers...I even bought a shirt!  

It was really a fantastic two days but two days is just not nearly long enough.  There were plenty of "pinch me" moments.  Like when our girls were taking turns going down the slide {50 times}, when I got to snuggle that chunk of a baby G-buddy or when Bridget and I were having cocktails and chatting on her patio {omg}.  All things that we have talked about doing for the longest!  Really I could go on and on...  I wish so much that we could do those things more often.  Thank you to Bridget {AND STEVE!} for opening your home to my family.  We had the best time and I can't wait for the next time.  Blakely is still saying "Em-meees howsh" {Emily's house} every time we get in the car so I guess we will have to come back this weekend?!?!?!