A Weekend Away From The Farm!!

Papa's bosses recently gave us a free night in a very nice hotel in the 'city' as a Christmas bonus. We'd gotten one last year as well but hadn't been able to use it so we lumped the two together and spent a weekend away from the farm! We had a AWESOME time!! Here are Papa and the kids, in PJ's,  watching 'How to Train Your Dragon!'  Even Baby J on the floor is watching! Thanks SO MUCH C and R!! 

The hotel room was almost bigger then our house!! It had the main room where the kids are watching the movie and this bedroom where Papa and I and Baby J stayed with a full bathroom! 

Here is a picture of the whole room! I packed in laundry baskets, much easier to pack and find stuff in. That's our swim stuff on the floor there. We went swimming and had a BLAST in the hotel pool. The door on the end wall went to a little balcony and over looked a quiet road! 

Here is the other half of our bedroom. Baby J slept in the crib! His 1st crib sleep! Mind you the 1st night he was more out of the crib then in! But the second night he slept 9 hours straight! He's does have a strange sleep pattern. The little black fan on the floor we brought from home. He's very used to white noise. The door by the mirror goes to the bathroom and the other one goes to the main room. 

The bathroom! There were 2 tubs so the boys had a bath in one and the girls in the other!! They love baths! 

The other half of the main room. 

Two sleepy little girls slept on the hide-a-bed!

Two excited little boys had a harder time sleeping on the bed in the other room! They are not used to sleeping away from each other and had to say 'goodnight' before they went to bed. 

Baby J asleep in the crib. Night 2. He kept hitting his head and hands on the metal bars so I rigged up a soft barrier.. He didn't need it though as he didn't move from this wrapped state for 9 hours! 

Papa and Baby J watched some TV together. Baby J looks like he'd rather be watching cartoons with his siblings! 

We had a great weekend. We watched several hotel movies and took the kids for a 3D movie. Papa, E, R, and I hadn't seen a 3D movie before and we LOVED it. We ate sushi and Mc D's, went out to Earls and had breakfast in the hotel restaurant! We met some friends and the 2 couples took our 9 children out for supper!  We swan, shopped (and we got pretty much ALL our Christmas shopping done!) and went driving down Candy Cane Lane to see the lights! The kids loved the pool and we're going to have to start our Sunday afternoon pool trips again now that winter is here! We didn't think about our farm 'to do' list at all and enjoyed not having to do chores morning and night. We were lazy and totally enjoyed ourselves!! B&B stayed at our place and did chores and kept the fire going! Thanks SO much you two for cow sitting for us!! :)