food, crochet, merriment
Jillian and Rhen came to help me set up which made all this possible.
Here we go!!!
It turned out to be a lovely day.
This really could be my kind of thing.
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.
Ok, this is my LEAST favorite thing about roadtrips….
having to say good-bye to a big chunk of my heart.
Ooooh, I’m going to miss this sweet guy…
and his family….SO, so much.
The cousins will miss each other too. It was just all so dang FUN!!
It’s so strange to drive away from these guys who just lived down the road a few months ago. Kind of awful, actually. Feels like we should all be going “home” together.
Deep breaths. Deep breaths.
Good-bye sweet family—I love you!!
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.
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!!