A Very Perry: Setting new priorities!

I definately have a few summer things that I want to blog and don't seem to find the time, but it really is Ok with me because we are having a lot of fun this summer and I will catch up when I am stuck inside with TONS of snow outside.

But for now, I don't want to think about that!!

After T-ball got started our next summer adventure was a girls trip to Chicago! Tina & Mandi approached me last winter to take our girls, aka "the Triplets", to the American Girl Place Store. Right away my thoughts were that I didn't think we would go because I felt as if that wasn't a priority. Well after a couple days I decided to throw that priority list out the window and write a new one. This time I put a mother/daughter trip at the top of the new list. I decided that if I kept putting things on hold I was gonna miss out on a lot of great opportunities. And now that we have done it, I don't regret going for a second!!

We loaded up early on a Friday morning and started out journey to the "big city"!

Here are the girls walking toward on hotel right on Michigan Avenue ( this is the back enterence).

After we got all our bags checked in, and when I say ALL I mean ALL! You would be amazed how many bags 6 girls need on a ONE night trip!! We headed straight to our destination....

The moment we walked into this store was the moment I knew that bringing Molly to Chicago was not a mistake. The term "kid in a candy store" should be rewritten to "little girl in a doll store"!! Molly was in Heaven!! I have to admit it was a little piece of Heaven for me too seeing how happy she was.

We had lunch...

Molly got "Maggie's" hair done....

& of course, we SHOPPED!!

I definately think I kept things in check. I would have loved to buy her all the things she wanted, but wanted to remember that the trip was about spending time together and with our friends and not how much I could buy for her. She also had been working the past month or so to earn money to buy a few things of her own. I was really proud of her.

Later that day we swam at the hotel...

One of the girls favorite parts of the trip was when we got back from dinner that night they had delivered American Girl doll beds, milk & cookies! The were very impressed with that & how someone would have gotten in the room. I guess that could seem a little creepy, ha ha!!