Road Trip Day 2 Saturday

After a quick little breakfast–thanks hotel…

of anything and everything you can think of…

we’re back in the car…

and off again.

We had more of this…

and these…

and even this to let us know that we were still in Colorado.

Or is it Colopado?

Have we been saying it wrong all these years?!

Whatever. We were here in Colorado, until we weren’t.

Welcome to Kansas!!

We noticed immediately that they had waaaay more land that looked like this.

Lots of hay and tons of corn…no picture though. I must have been too stunned at the shere volumn of the corn to focus. Sorry man.

Pretend you can see us driving allllll through Kansas and allllll that corn, until at last, at LAST we got to Arkansas and…

found my cute long, lost boy!!! Ooooh I’ve missed those big, strong arms.

April’s family beat us here by a day because they drove straight through without stopping. Yikes.

We got in so late that Dane’s family were already in bed.

The kids still loved meeting up with their cousins that they hadn’t seen…

in a whopping 3 days!

They live down the street from us in Utah. Haha.

It was good to get a little piece of our Daney-boy before he went off to bed.

We finally made it!!

ROAD TRIP!! Day 1 Friday

Heading out to road trip it allllll the way to Dane & Kortney’s place. Yes, we are very, very brave to do this without the usual menfolk in the wagon train.

First stop–Lyndi’s place to pick up some things she needed us to take. We really wanted her to jump in the car with us, but she wasn’t able to do it…this time. We’ll miss you Lyndi!!

For some strange reason, we were feeling particularly sturdy-mountain-women-ish for this trip…which we may laugh about later.

We’ll see.

Arkansas here we come!!

Lots of roads.

Lots of clouds.

Lots of prairie.

Ooooh. Dairy Queen is ALWAYS a good idea. Heh, heh.

Not stir crazy yet!! All these cuties did so-so well, playing games, watching movies and napping.

Made it to Colorado…

and our hotel…

in great time.

Everyone was ready…

for a nacho feast!

 

with a little popcorn on the side…

and the floor.

Haha.

I was ready for bed but these little fishies wanted to swim before sleeping after being cooped up in the car all day. What a great idea!

Zzzzzzzzzz…

 

Strawberry Days Esports Competition

Oh, yeaaaah–I’m pretty proud of these kids! They all entered the ESports competition for Strawberry Days in Pleasant Grove. Such brave souls. I was way too chicken–but I did come to watch.

Jillian, Lyndi and Rhen all entered the Dr. Mario tournament.

They played through the rounds and got pretty far.  At one point there were people standing outside the school windows so that they could see the screens!

Some guy came over by me and started complaining about all the people that had beat him. I sheepishly said, “Yeah, that’s my daughter,” and “That’s my other daughter,” and “That’s my son.” All he said in return was, “Wow.”

I swear, I tried to keep a straight face. We will not discuss how well it worked.

Our boy entered the Smash Bros tournament because it’s his particular specialty. Watch out everybody else!

Rhen and this fellow got to the finals…

but of course…

there can be only one winner!!

No surprise to me who that was!

Congratulations Rhen!!!

But wait!! Right after that–we had another winner in the Smash Bros category!! Congratulations boy!!

I taught them everything they know.

BAHAHAHAhahahahaha!

What a fun time.

Hanging out with winners!

Heh, heh.

 

 

My Chosen Girl

I have never seen anyone consistently have more fun with a project than this sweet girl has had being an extra in The Chosen series.

They are given quite specific costume guidelines to follow but this one…

is the most creative yet!

I mean, look at the colors…

and look at the textures…

and look at the fabrics–all so wild and fun.

But the best thing for this mama heart is…

to look at that smile!

Have fun honey! I love you.

~Mom