Year 5…definitely not a childless vacation

For the last five years…since I graduated college in 2008 we have been getting together with some great friends–the Connellys and Dores–to do yearly trips!  So far we have gone  skiing in Colorado in 2009, a Caribbean Cruise (Connelly’s were pregnant with numero 1) 2010, to a very small town in Arkansas (this was a money saver trip because we had all just bought houses) in 2011, and a home town vacation in Fort Worth (both the Connellys and Dores were very pregnant so we decided to do the bulk of the traveling–but unbeknownst to us we were actually pregnant too!) in 2012.  When we first talked about these trips we always said they would be “child-free” so that we could have grown up time.  Well 5 years later with the Connellys adding 2 to their family and the Dores and us each adding 1 to the family we realized that childless trips may not always work.  So low and behold our 5th year vacation held in Camp Hill, PA to accommodate us and our newborn.  This was definitely NOT a childless vacation!

Whenever Kara cried, Davis would cry as well

Best one of all 3! Poor CharCon is the only one who hasn’t been one of these vacations

Boys at Gettysburg–obviously taking it very seriously

About to go on a walk!

Wake up Daddy!! No resting this trip 🙂

Maggie meet Kara

Don’t let this fool you–Kara still came along for the grownup dinner!

Only picture with all 9 of us at the Hershey Pantry

Love these friends…love these kids…hope our kids will one day enjoy these vacations as much as we do!