I Met My Imaginary Friends

My local friends and the husb always give me crap that I spend a lot of time with people who probably don't really exist.  Well, this weekend I got to prove that I'm not totally insane and at least some of them actually are real people.  When I was pregnant with Ev, I got addicted to the forums on thebump.com.  I went back to their pregnancy and baby boards with Callum and kept up with some of the girls from there on a break off board and eventually a facebook group.  Now I'm never on thebump anymore, but communicate with these girls on facebook daily.  They are a hilarious and loving bunch.  I do love my real life friends too, but there's something special about my online "imaginary" friends.  This weekend, we went down and stayed in the cities and I got to meet three of these friends and their four awesome kiddos (plus meet up with two college buddies).

First, I got to see Britt and her boys!  You know, Britt.

Our boys had fun playing in the McDonalds playland (except Luther, he's a bit young for that).

I also got to see Mel, who I pretty much haven't seen in ages and ages.  It was awesome!

Then there was the imaginary friend get together.  So many babies!

   

And sorry to B for this picture, but the husb isn't great at taking a zillion shots so I can pick the best....

You might recognize these girls as the amazing tot-schooler and mom of adorable little Henry, Nicole, and mommy of the sassiest and cutest little girl ever, Buffy.

I failed to get a whole group, but our lovely host for the get together was the hilarious mom of two boys with the most gorgeous eyes ever, Jaymi.  Here she is waving to Henry and holding I think the cutest baby I've ever seen, her little Sam:

Phew!  And in addition to all that, we stayed at a fantastic hotel (Best Western Plus in Bloomington) where they were nothing but welcoming and awesome and had the best toddler pool area.  The boys enjoyed that.

And we did the mall, including rides, and ikea while there.

And now we're a day behind on our routine plan, but should be able to catch up this week.  6 miles today, 2 miles tomorrow and we'll be back on track.  :)