Jillian – Gracious Rain

September 4, 2025October 21, 2025

Road Trip-Day 7 The End

Our very last hotel breakfast for this trip. To be honest, I’ve loved it.

Any time you can have food magically appear first thing in the morning–I’m certainly a fan!

Back in the car for a whollllllle bunch more of this…

and this helped.

Awww the stamina building power of ice cream!

Of course this was a welcome site.

But this one…

was…

WAY better!! Wahoooooooo!

We’re home!!!

I’ll tell you what–THIS girl is an absolute CHAMP! She drove the whole time and acted like she knew just where she was going. I am SO proud of her and her incredible bravery…

and life saving sense of direction. Heh, heh.

No kidding. She is amazing.

The kitties were all glad to see me. Dali was thrilled.

Lyla was extatic.

And Hobbes…ok, Hobbes had to act cool but I choose to believe he missed me.

Home again. Home again.

Jiggety jog.

September 2, 2025October 20, 2025

The Road Trip- Day 5B “Fishing”

After the hike, some of the kids were still wanting more of the rugged outdoor, fend-for-yourself type fun. So Uncle Dane and Aunt Kortney decided to take them FISHING.

I’ve only been fishing once and it was a baaaaaad experience and I was young enough that I should have forgotten it, but of course, I didn’t. I’ll have to tell you about that sometime…later.

ANYway, we went to the local fishing hole and it was wonderful. The bigger kids and Kortney even caught some fish. Not being an enourmous fish or fishing fan, but also not wanting to be left out entirely…

I came along…

and stayed in the car. At least this time, I could see all the action.

As you can see from all the smiles–this was certainly another unforgettable day!

September 2, 2025October 20, 2025

Road Trip- Day 5 The Hike

Most of the kids and grown ups were feeling very adventurous today so Dane and Kortney found the perfect place to take a family friendly hike into the local forest.

I say, “most” because it was going to be farther than I could walk, so I opted to stay in the car and mind my own business…meaning…I was going to stare out at a pretty little empty field…

and crochet. It was perfect!!

Here is what the more active folks saw…

Thanks guys for sharing the pictures with me! It was almost like being there …without the hiking.

Heh, heh.

August 30, 2025October 19, 2025

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!!

August 29, 2025October 19, 2025

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!!