Little Sis is Engaged!!

This is how he felt about the first 8hr trip! The face says it all.


Sitting with Aunt Sarah at Dinner





Matt and Sarah before they got engaged.

A couple of weeks ago, my sister got Engaged!! We are all excited for her, excited that she has found someone that makes her happy and treats her right. The weekend she got engaged we had to do a lot of little white lies, so she wouldn't know the real reason why were heading to Chicago. Most of you probably thought somethings was up, when we decided to drive to chicago basically for a 24hr trip! But not Sarah...she had no idea. Matt her fiancee a couple weeks back emailed us and said he planned on asking Sarah to marry him, and wanted to see if we could come up because he was going to have a little party afterwords for family and friends. When we found out my initial thought was to fly, because a trip that quick with a 7 month old wasn't what we really wanted to do. But as you can imagine on such short notice tickets were high. So we decided to drive. Sarah thought we were coming to celebrate her birthday since it was just a couple weeks before. So we got up at 4:30am Saturday morning to start our adventure. Weston did ok, the bad thing is that he likes his bottles and food really warm. I purchased a bottle warmer for the car and it didn't work. So every time it was time to feed, we had to find a gas station or a McDonalds and ask for hot water. We finally made it, we thought about going to the zoo with him. But After talking it over we really didn't want to have to put him in a stroller since he had been in a seat for over 8 hrs. So he just rolled around on Sarah's floor. Until it was time to head to dinner. Usually when we head to dinner he falls asleep in the car, which is perfect for a little nap time, but the drive to dinner was 5 min or less, and so he didn't sleep. He was tired. So he was fighting it during dinner. We basically had to walk around with him, so he wouldn't disrupt the other guest. After dinner, we all piled back into the car and drove Sarah And Matt to a friends place, where Matt had told her a friend was having a party and they had to make an appearance. Little did she know that the party would be for her later that evening and he was going to ask her to marry her. So we drove back to Sarah's place and waited outside in the car for the call. Weston took a nap, which was great since he needed it. We finally headed back over to Matt's friends place and got to see them and congratulate them. We spent the rest of the evening there, and finally at midnight headed back to Sarah's place to try and sleep. The night was short, and Weston didn't sleep the greatest and neither did we. We were in the same room, which isn't the greatest for sleeping arrangements with a baby. He woke up at 4:30 I think because he was cold. Sarah's place has lots of windows and isn't the greatest when it comes to insulation. Plus we didn't know how to turn the heat on. So finally at 6:00 we decided to get up and get ready to head out. our way home Weston did a lot better. I think basically because he was tired. My parents got us toy story 1 and 3, so that was playing the whole way home. Baby Einstein wasn't going to cut it anymore. We made it home safely, but it took us a couple of days to catch up on our sleep. Now the fun part has started helping Sarah plan a wedding! LOL