Visiting The Roitsch's!

This past weekend we had the privilege of visiting Charles, Jordie, and Samson in Birmingham. We caught a flight out Friday afternoon and came with a backpack full of toys, books, food, and movies. Thankfully the flight wasn't full and we had the whole back row of the plane to ourselves. Tyler was LOVING it! He kept saying "airplane zoom" and "Tyler's chair". He wanted to sit in is own chair and put the window shade up and down, up and down… 

Brian stayed for the weekend and headed back early Monday morning (due to a cancelled flight Sunday night) but Tyler and I stayed until Tuesday night. Friday night we bathed the boys and then put them down and spent a few hours just catching up. 

Tyler wasn't so keen on sharing the bathtub. 

Best friends!

Saturday we met up with Kyle and Liz and spent the afternoon at a state park. Tyler loved throwing rocks into the water and running around in the sand. Kyle and Brian offered Charles $50 each if he would swim out to the rope and back in the cool 50 degree weather. Charles will do anything for money :).

Samson (11 months) & Tyler (21 months)

Tyler showing Samson the wonderful world of Gru from Despicable Me.

Sunday morning we headed to a coffee shop for breakfast and then played at this awesome park!

After nap time we headed to the Birmingham Zoo and thankfully they had Tyler's favorites…hippos and rhinos. 

and yes, Charles is wearing a tank...

elephants

rhino!

Monday Brian flew back to Dallas and Charles had to go to work so it was just the girls with the littles. Tyler and I offered to watch Samson while Jordie had some alone time :). That afternoon we headed to the Science Museum. We only had about an hour to play but it was so much fun!

Tuesday afternoon I headed to the airport with Tyler all on my own. Honestly, I was very nervous. I checked the flight to make sure no one was sitting next to me since we didn't get Tyler his own seat and thankfully we were good to go. We watched a lot of movies for about 10 minutes and ate lots of snacks. He did great and only had trouble while we had to taxi. He was so happy to see his daddy especially since he brought Tyler a balloon and M&Ms.  Overall we had a great time and are so thankful for our friendship with the Roitsch's! 

Happy to be home!