California meets Colorado

Back when I was pregnant with my firstborn child, I joined Babycenter.com's February 2005 forum. This was a place for any woman expecting a child that month to go for questions, concerns and to just connect with other soon to be mommies. Many of us stayed on this board for a few years and went on to have more children. Throughout these years, we got to know each other pretty well, maybe even better than the friends we knew in our day to day real lives. We followed each other on our blogs and facebook after babycenter closed down. I am proud to call these women my friends.

Well, today, I was finally able to meet one of these mommies in person. Kristin and her beautiful family came to California for a Disney vacation and so we met up at Downtown Disney's Rainforest Cafe. With our two families combined, we were a party of 10! We have 3 kids each and have both been married for 6 years. Kristin was a total sweetheart and I am so glad that we finally were able to meet. The only down fall was that it was super hard to carry on any kind of conversation without one of our kids wanting our attention! Go figure huh? Excuse my goofy smile, but isn't Kristin just the prettiest girl? She is tall, sweet and has a very friendly smile.
Both of our husbands are New Orleans Saints fans, so I believe the majority of their conversation was about football. I should really ask Wayne to be sure though. Jason is also a very hands on daddy, which I just love.

And as you can see, little Miss Elsie adored Autumn. Luckily, Miss A has two big brothers, so she wasn't even fazed by Miss E hugging all over her.

And check out these handsome boys. Dalton reminds me of my Seth, super sweet and loving with a small quiet voice and he had no problem carrying on a conversation with me. Easton actually reminded me of Kya; funny how that worked out. Both Easton and Kya were tired and seemed to have a hard time sitting still and their emotions got the better of them a few times (is that a firstborn or 5 year old trait? lol), and they did talk to each other some, but I never really did catch what they were saying. I wish they both hadn't been so tired, because it would have been fun to see them interact a bit more. Maybe if/when they come back to CA someday!

All the kids ended up migrating towards Autumn. How could they not? She is such an easy going and cute girl.

We tried for a group shot all the big kids, but with 5 kids being 5 and under, these are the best pictures I was able to get. I can't wait to see how Kristin's turned out.

Doesn't Autumn just fit in perfectly with my family!?! Too bad her mommy and daddy didn't want to let her go! lol But honestly, I think I look good with 4 kids.

I was hoping to get a group shot of all 10 of us, but as you can imagine, that just was not going to be an easy task to accomplish, so we didn't even try! But I did get this picture of their family.

And Kristin took this one of ours. Cute eh?

And of course my kids just had to dance to the music!

Thank you sooo much Jason and Kristin for having dinner with us. Next time we will have to go somewhere where the kids can play so we can actually talk!