Minnesota or BUST

Over Spring Break {ahem, 2 weeks ago...}, we packed up the ol' Mom Bomb and traveled north to Albertville, IKEA, and the MOA for a short family vaycay.  Lovebug and Coach were quite the pair in my rearview mirror... you see, he sat in the backseat with Lovebug to keep her quiet company :).

Upon arrival, we hit up the stors at the Albertville Outlet Mall.  Ahhh... outlet prices + no tax on clothing or shoes = boat loads of Lynamland bucks spent.  The highlights of that 4-5 hour time frame were:

* Lovebug getting 6 pairs of shoes {that's right ladies, I'm starting her off right!!}
* Coach and I getting matching Hawkeye coats.  Yep!  We're that couple now :)

Monday brought IKEA, the MOA, and Lovebug's first experience swimming {more to come in another post}.  IKEA was quite the experience... only because our poor lil' girl was a bit confused.  You see, our favorite daycare person EVER {a.k.a. Holly} and her sister were in MN at the same time.  In fact, they were our next-door neighbors at the hotel :).  So, Lovebug was a smidge bit confused that Holly and Mama and Dadda were all there.  Therefore, she had a hard time of listening to Mama... and earned her first IKEA time-out :(. 

We ventured on to the MOA and had some quality family time.


{about to enter the mall}

Our first stop?  Johnny Rockets :). 



{cheese!!!}

Once we ate, we hit up the super awesome Sea Life Aquarium!  It was so much fun... though I'm not sure who had more... Lovebug who saw tons of sea creatures, Coach who got to have a fun experience with his favorite daughter, or me, who got to witness the fun they had together. 



{seriously... loving the paintings on the wall}




{about to go down}



{here, they could touch different things.  Lovebug... not so sure about it}

{stingrays!!}



{waving at Mama}

Once you walk through a few different exhibits, you enter the tunnel of creatures.  This was probably my favorite part.  And *ahem*, I sometimes forgot that I was responsible for a little one... I got a litle too caught up in the oohs and ahhs of what I saw :)



{that's a big ol' shark right above my family!!!}

{love his face!!}

 While walking through this wicked awesome tunnel, I got super excited about the sea turtles!  {think Finding Nemo}.  Apparently, the sea turtle felt the same way about us :). 

{pointing to him from afar}

{pointing to him up close.  I soooo wish I could have gotten the look on her face!!}

 I had to run ahead of these two yahooligans to capture this fun picture. 

{who do you think had more fun?}

Wow!  He's a handsome man :).  And what a cutie.  God has blessed me, that's for sure!!!  Though I wish our vaycay could have been longer, I was happy to get home and work on our projects.  It also solidified to us that we're going to save our money for next year's spring break {think Tampa... and Yankees baseball :)}