Summer Vacation Part II

Part II of our summer vacation was spent visiting with friends who we haven't seen in a while. Our friends, The Zinks, let us stay with them in their house for our trip, and this was a blast. The Zinks have 2 boys, Phil who just turned 2, and Daniel, who just turned 1. Needless to say the kids all had a blast playing with one another. We did a lot of things while in Indianapolis. The highlights include:

-Watching the Zink kids and the Jarboe kids play with each other

-Enjoying Arnie's in Lafayette for lunch

-Watching the kids run around Purdue's campus - as you see the number of kids increased tremendously since our last trip to Purdue with the Zinks and this one.......
Here we are with Paul and Phil in 2007 (I am pregnant with Alex and Olivia)

And now we have added 3 kids to the group in less than 2 years! (Paul unfortunately couldn't make the trip to Purdue with us - - he had to work! Bummer!)

-Having our friends, Brooke and Dan, who are professional photographers take pictures of Alex and Olivia
-Having a Zink Family BBQ, and watching the kids play in the backyard


-Spending good quality time with Jen and Paul every night after all the kids went to bed
-Seeing all of our friends in Indy, including The Lubsens, Jess & Adam, The Clarks
-Stressfully trying to get Olivia to go to sleep every night and naptime, which resulted in Ben doing the 465 Loop in Indy 2 nights in a row to get her to sleep.....due to the ear infection (which we had no idea but had photographic proof when we got home)
The ride back to Connecticut was a bit rough due to Olivia's ear infection and the tooth she was cutting. We made it back driving straight through (in retrospect we should have stopped). We were exhausted when we got home and unfortunately the kids were wide awake!!!

Thanks to all of our friends (especially the Zinks) for making our trip to Indianapolis an unforgettable one!