visiting Peoria

This past Tuesday was my mom's birthday. To celebrate, some ladies drove to Peoria to have dinner with her on Thursday evening. Owen and I drove over a bit early to get him settled with Grandpa. We had a fun ladies night out and he loved hanging out with Grandpa. Owen, Jenna, and I spent the night and Dad fixed us a great breakfast before we started packing up our stuff. We were a bit bummed though. See, there's this group of cows that hangs out in my parents backyard. Ok, not really their backward, but directly on the other side of the fence. My child, for some reason or other, LOVES cows. He says moo all the time, currently adores reading books that have cows in them, and will sit and watch the entire Baby McDonald farm video without getting bored. So, anyways, I had been telling him over and over that we were going to see the cows and Grandpa and Grandmas.  But they didn't come out all night or morning as per their normal routine.  My dad was pretty sure they had been sent to the butcher. :( But low and behold, as we were packing up the car, they finally came out.  Owen had a fabulous time mooing and even getting to feed them pears from the neighbor.  It was definitely a great end to a short little visit to Peoria!