Morgan Wallen Concert - Minnesota

 One of the girls' Christmas gifts was tickets to see Morgan Wallen in concert in Minneapolis! We drove most of the way there after Jade's track meet on a Friday and spent the evening in Eau Clare, WI. We drove the rest of the way the next morning and headed straight to the Mall of America! We were so excited to have my cousin Kelly, her husband and their girls come and join us at the mall for rides and shopping!

After the mall we headed to our hotel in downtown Minneapolis, just a few blocks from U.S. Bank Stadium! It turned out that our hotel was connected to the stadium via the skyway, which came in super handy since it was raining pretty much the whole afternoon leading up to the concert! After getting rained on waiting for merch outside the stadium, we went back to our hotel to eat dinner and get ready! The concert was extremely crowded and there was quite a bit of waiting between acts, but that didn't stop us from having the best time. It was SO much fun and a memory we'll never forget!

A little bonus was seeing more of our extended MN family and attending my cousin's son Colton's birthday lunch before heading home!

Jade is FOURTEEN

 Jade's birthday started with donuts from Dunkin and a dragonfruit refresher from Starbucks!

Her birthday fell on a Wednesday this year, which happens to be one of our busiest weekday evenings! We took Jemma to her tumbling class and then ate Chic-Fil-A in the car on the way to Jade's soccer practice!

Nate got hung up at work, so after practice Jade opened her present from Jemma and we sang Happy Birthday to her with Nate on Facetime! When he got home around 9:30, she opened the rest of her presents! Her big ask this year was AirPods!

We had the best time celebrating the birthday girl a few weekends later at her family birthday party. Having Uncle Mark in from Atlanta and Nana feeling well enough to come was an added bonus!

Spring Break Part 2 / Meet In The Middle / Easter

 Nate and I both had to work during the girls' spring break week, but on my days off the girls and I managed to squeeze in a little fun!

We drove down to Matthiessen State Park and did the Dells hiking trails. The weather was so beautiful!

On our other free day we went to see the Super Mario Galaxy movie and the girls got manicures!

We wrapped up our spring break week with our annual Meet in the Middle weekend with my parents and my sister's family! We stayed local (to us) this year and did so many fun things, including a photography contest at an antique store, diaper shopping for a local food pantry, making our own deep dish pizza's at Lou Malnati's, celebrating Cruz and Jade's birthday's and lots of good food family time and games!

We stopped home for the girls to open their Easter basket goodies, and then we headed to Nate's mom's house for Easter dinner!