Our FIRST vacation with Allison...

So lots of excitement these past few days. We took Allison on our very first family vacation on Sunday, it was a mini vacation, we got back today (tuesday) about 3 in the afternoon. Of course going home to Iowa is a vacation, but that's a lil different, hope you understand what I mean. Anyways, our vacation wasn't to the carribean or anything like that, it was just a quick 3 hour drive down to Branson, MO. It was a "free" getaway for 3 days/ 2 nights. Ya see, I filled out one of those cards to try to win a car at the mall....well they must call everyone and tell them that they are 1 of 100 finalists to win the car, and offer you a mini vacation...and all you have to do is go tour their "resort" (timesharing) So we figured, heck it's free, lets go. Our "90 minute" presentation/tour of the new resort turned into about 2 1/2 hours, so that kind of sucked, but the cool thing is that Allison slept thru the whole thing. SO anyways, we didn't buy a timeshare, that's kind of hard to do right now especially with a new baby!!!
But yea, our time down there was great. We received a free dinner and also 2 tickets to any show we wanted to see down there. We ended up going to "the Spirit of Christmas with the Osmond Brothers" which was a great show! Both Chuck and I enjoyed it and once again allison slept thru most of it, waking up to have a bit of milk and then she was sleeping again.
Monday we did our tour of the resort and then at 8pm we went to see the Shanghai Circus, which was way way cool!!! Bunch of acrobats and such....I would recommend it to anyone who is planning a trip to Branson!!! Allison was awake for most of the show, she ate, and took a quick snooze, then woke up at intermission to dirty her diaper! perfect timing so i didn't have to miss any of the show. then she was awake for the 2nd half of the show....she really enjoyed watching all the lights dance around on the ceiling. It was cute to see her sit there and stare at the stage! Oh by the way, we had front row seats so that made the experience even better!!!
All in all we enjoyed our free mini vacation. Would have loved to buy a timeshare b/c the "cottages" we absolutely gorgeous and you get sooo many different benefits. It'll be something that we'll look at doing sometime in the future, not sure if in the near future, but in the future!!!

So that was our vacation!!! We did more stuff, but I honestly don't want to write a book about our vacation. hehe. However I am disappointed that we forgot to take pictures!!! So nothing to put in the scrapbook for allison for her first vacation!!! bummer!!!

Anyways, Thanksgiving is in 2 days! I'm excited b/c my sister Katie and my Mom are coming down tomorrow (wed) to spend THanksgiving with us. Chuck got asked to work a few extra days so he took them. So he'll be working wed and thanksgiving, along with him working his normal schedule of friday and saturday....but hey it's holiday pay!!! And we aren't planning on doing anything too spectacular. Maybe go downtown to watch all the Christmas lights light up. Depends on how chilly it is. So I can't wait for my sis and mom to arrive tomorrow night, and i'm sure they are both excited to come down to see us again, especially allison....they won't believe how much she has grown since the beginning of the month. It's just a bummer that Dad can't come down, he's got a sale going on at the furniture store and wants to get some more things done around the farm.
well that's all i have for now. look for pictures this weekend of allison in her thanksgiving gear!!!