Hoco!

For as long as I have had a Blogger blog, I have dealt with pictures in picture-heavy posts uploading in a totally random order and making my write-up of family events even more disjointed than it would naturally be. AND TODAY IS NO EXCEPTION.

The tl;dr is that we went to Peoria for Bradley's homecoming and had an absolute blast.

Minnie cheered SO HARD at the Red and White basketball game

She also loved the lighting of the Bradley Hall B and the fireworks that went with it.

Here we are waiting for fireworks

Dorothy, posing with some river front Peoria art on our way to dinner. (She also fell in a bush of burrs and had to be de-burred at the table-- it was ridiculous. She was lagging behind us on the way to the restaurant, so Ben turned to see where she was and goes WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH DOROTHY. I turned to look, and she was, like, zombie walking with stiff legs and her arms stretched out-- she had burrs all over her feet and ankles and somehow also in the sleeves of her sweatshirt)

Big red chair on the quad

We used to smoke on this bench outside the comm building

Minnie has wanted to have her face painted forEVER, and she finally got the chance before the red and white game.
 

Did I mention that there were balloons?

LOL

So glad I got to hold this doll all day

The guy behind Cooper loved the hat

These pants were much cuter than pictured.

Twinning!

Getting pumped for the game

Oh! Look! We're back to Friday night fireworks on the quad

Minnie got to meet Kaboom!

And there was ice cream! How could things get any better?

We also saw a  women's volleyball game, and Minnie goes, "Wow! I didn't know volleyball was so aggressive."

We enjoyed adorable photo opps

And we got to see Ben in his professional home

Plus show off our silly college sweetheart Lydia shirts

And! Bonus! The kids and I got to see my mom at her office-- for probably the last time since she RETIRES on 12/31!! Woo-hoo! She has been working for the Department of Children and Family Services in IL since my little brother was in first grade, more than 35 years ago!