The Meeces: St. Louis

In July we took a trip to St. Louis for Skylar to see a new neurologist at Washington University. Her appointment was the main reason for the trip, but we were able to stay a few days and see family and have some fun too! Gigi came with us too and enjoyed seeing some of her favorite parts of St. Louis from when she lived there. On the way there we stopped at Lambert's in Sikeston, Mo. Savannah loved it and thought the throwed rolls were the coolest thing ever! ;)

Skylar got too excited and wound up by the whole experience and had to leave lunch early :(

We visited the arch our first afternoon...

The next morning we were up super early for Skylar's doctors appointment. We were there for almost four hours, but she did pretty well with lots of distractions ;)

After the doctor we walked around and went to a really fun place for lunch called Fitz's.

Fitz bottles their own root beer and sodas and the girls loved watching while we waited for our food...

(Savannah eventually fell off of this chair and caused a little scene ha. Ego wounded, but she was fine)

That same night we took the girls to their first Cardinals game! It was all of our first time at the new stadium and it was beautiful! We loved seeing the new stadium and the new Cardinals Nation area with restaurants and shops. We met Josh, Shelley, and Olivia at the game too! It was a gorgeous HOT afternoon..

I love this picture- it sums up perfectly the first couple hours of the game. The girls were absolutely melting in the sun, or so they thought. :) Savannah eventually stole my sun glasses and Tyler's hat and did a little better. We spoon fed each of them a frozen lemonade for a while and that helped too. Oh, there is a Cardinal's game going on?? We were too busy cooling down whiney girls to notice ;) After the sun went down, things went much smoother! And in their defense, for Sky especially, it had been a really long day already...too much probably, but that is just when the game happened to be.

Savannah Loved Olivia!!

Skylar took a little walk to get out of the heat and met a new friend..

Walking to get treats with Liv...

The sun is down and now we have Icees and happy, wild girls!

Big night out for the Meeces!

On our way back to the meet the hotel van, Savannah was running on the sidewalk and ran right to the edge of a super busy corner. Everyone who was around gasped and about had a heart attack that she was going to run straight into the street. We had a big embarrassing public scene and meltdown following. But thank goodness everyone was safe. I think we might have said we were never going anywhere ever again lol.. Lucky for the girls, we usually recover fairly quickly and find the courage to try things again ;)

The next day we went to Josh and Shelley's house and got to see lots of family! Michael and Elisabeth came down to visit, and Jill and Paul also brought Grandma Carroll down for a visit too. Shelley made a wonderful lunch for everyone and it was so great to catch up and hang out for a while together. Wish we could see everyone more often.