My Once Upon a Time...

On this day, we met one of my college friends and two of her kids at the same park we had been to the day before. The last time I had seen her was in 2012 when we first started trying to have a baby and she only had one child back then, so it was awesome to see each other again, but this time with a lot more kids than before! These two boys are about four months apart and we both tried for such a long time to have these kids via IUI and then eventually IVF (for me) and they are both little miracles. They got along so well and I loved seeing them play together. Seriously the best kids place ever! They all played in these airplanes for over an hour, which gave us some time to catch up! I seriously can't believe that we met 15 years ago and here we are, with 4 kids between us (obviously I have some catching up to do in the kid department...haha).  It was seriously such a fun day catching up and we both wished that we lived closer to make ...

If you couldn't already tell, Fox had a blast in Germany, but this day was one of the best! My friends and family had told me about this place called "Irrland" and while I remembered being there many many years ago, they told me that they had expanded tremendously and it was kid paradise. And that it was. Picture the biggest pumpkin patch (minus the pumpkins) you have ever seen... they had everything: Petting Zoos, Corn Mazes, Hay Bales, a giant structure with nothing but corn inside, another giant structure with oversize legos, slides, playgrounds, airplanes, mud areas, pools, splash pads, bounce houses, climbing structures, bikes, go-carts. We weren't even able to see everything, this place was huge! I wish we had something like this here! And it was only $6.50! They had a few mazes there and we actually got very lost in one of them, it was huge! This pad had water inside and all the kids loved wrestling on it, including Fox and my mo...

My parents would take me to this playground in the Netherlands when I was little and I remember it like it was yesterday. We even celebrated some birthdays there.  After we searched for it for almost an hour (neither of us had been there for over 25 years), we finally found it! I think my dad and brother had more fun than Fox! It had finally cooled off a little and the weather couldn't have been better.  This slide was super steep and fast and I was so proud of Fox for trying it.  He loves being the center of attention...can you tell? He was a little too short to ride one of these, so he decided to hang on instead. He had so much fun, he didn't want to leave! After we got back to our village, we visited my grandparents' grave and the church. This is the house I grew up in (and now my aunt lives downstairs and brother lives upstairs).  Mr. Attitude Like every ...