The Great Adventure - Day Four

Day four of our adventure found us waking up in the Hanson household amidst the kids, Polo and Jared - Gill went to school and the rest of the clan joined us for an early lunch at Pei Wei then dress shopping with Kenz for a dress for the dance this Friday.

We headed to a few consignment stores first, I found two long sleeve shirts (much needed since it was only 53 degrees), but Kenz struck out on dresses.  We decided to try our luck at Nordstrom Rack, guess where folks?  You got it, Mall of America!  Geez-O-Pete, that place is huge.  Poppi and Will left us girls in the ladies section and headed out to explore the huge mall.  Kenz must have tried on 30 dresses... what fun, but no luck here either.  Well, she wanted to try H&M, and drum roll, please........ she found something she liked AND it was age-appropriate!  So tough with all the styles out there, I feel sorry for moms of teenagers, they don't have many choices.


First stop, a cup of java from Caribou Coffee, yummy!  Kenz was camera shy
and didn't join us in the pic, but she was there too!

We then marched over to Forever 21 so LuLu could shop for her bday present from us.  Kenz found a ring and some bracelets to accent her dress, and we were done, I mean I was done.  I'm sure the kids could've shopped more, but this lady needed to sit down!
We dropped Kenz off at soccer practice, then Jared and Otto took Will to carpool to his practice, picked up Kenz from her practice, then Jared took LuLu to her practice, whew.  The Hanson's are a busy family.  The girls by-passed youth group, there just wasn't enough time or drivers/cars to get everyone where they needed to be - Poppi, Gill, Kenz and I played Wii; tennis, baseball and bowling where on the agenda.  (LuLu joined us after her practice) I bombed at tennis, beat Gill at baseball and came in second bowling! Gill hit a two-run homer to beat Poppi and dominated on the tennis court!  LuLu took the honors in the bowling tourny. Fun stuff for sure :)

Gill and Poppi battle it out on the tennis court!

After a dinner of spaghetti and meatballs, we settcled in to watch Princess Diaries 1 and 2! 

What a glorious day and now it's off to bed for the kiddos as they are going to school tomorrow.  Only one practice then Poppi is treating us for dinner!  The only thing missing was the kids' momma!