Dinner with IP's

It's Sunday evening and we just got back home from an awesome evening with R & S. Can you believe Al let me plan a dinner during the Cubs/ Cards game? Thank God for Tivo (or now DVR since we made the switch this weekend.)

First, thanks so much to my sister Kris who watched the kids. They had an amazing time swimming and playing with their cousins. What a nice Sunday evening for them! We had a very difficult time getting the kids to leave though but finally managed to after using our fall back parenting technique- threatening!

Now back to us- we started the night off at R & S's house on the North Shore. What a beautiful home they have together! It is definitely screaming for children to come in to start coloring on the walls and denting the furniture and needs at least a few hundred toys laying around. It really is a beautiful home and such a great place to welcome a family. They were even lucky enough to move into the house with ready made boy/ girl nurseries. The rooms are super cute with hand painted murals on the walls. Now I definitely feel some pressure to help make boy/ girl twins so we can fill those rooms!

We had a nice time sitting out on the deck talking for awhile. I enjoyed my glass of Chardonnay (I am enjoying those while I can since it won't be much longer before I have to say goodbye to my beloved Chardonnay again.) :( R and I sat together at the table to talk while S and Al sat in the shade on the deck doing "guy" talk. I even got to see their wedding album which was really nice. What a beautiful bride! Then we made our way to J Alexanders restaurant for a wonderful dinner. It was so much fun to have an adult night out! Al and I should do that more often. The dinner conversation went very smoothly and again time flew by! I hated to leave because I felt like we could keep talking for hours. We made tentative plans to have R & S over to our house in 2 weeks to meet the kids and then do dinner at a Gurnee Restaurant. Hopefully they will be able to handle a short visit at our house- they are both very allergic to cats so we'll have to keep Dexter locked up! There is so much we want to share with them when they come over but I am sure our kids will be stealing the show. :) Hopefully they won't be shy when they meet them. Our kids are usually very outgoing and very entertaining.

Overall I think the night went very well. It feels like we have known them for a long time already and its hard to believe it has actually only been just short of 2 months since our first meeting. R said their attorney has forwarded the contract to our attorney within the past few days so hopefully we will be getting a call this week to set up an appointment to meet her in person. We are down to 19 days left before I am scheduled to start meds so we need to get the contract signed, sealed and delivered before then.

I am hoping and praying that everything will work out and that nothing will change our plans to move forward.

Thanks again R & S for the wonderful dinner. Next time it is our treat! :)