Road Trip!

What good is a mini-van if you don't take some good road trips in it.  We made our plans to take our girls out to Utah for a week.  The plan was to drive up on Sat/Sun (Jul 21-22), stay for the workweek and drive home Sat/Sun (Jul 28-29).  We were ALMOST foiled in our attempt when some random guy backed into our van (AHH!) on Thursday Jul. 20.  I was grabbing some last minute things from Target and he hit us as we were leaving.  I was SO. MAD.  Oh you know, thankful we were all fine, etc., but it totally messed up my plans!

But miracle of miracles, we got the van assessed, told the guy the total, he brought us cash that day and we got it fixed.  Whew!  That made for a busy time packing things up since we didn't get the van back until after 5 pm on Friday.  But we did it. 

We hit the road EARLY on Saturday Jul. 21.  Like 4:30 am early.  We recently bought a dual screen DVD player that we can put in van and it was worth every penny.  We borrowed a bunch of movies from my Dad and that kept the kiddos entertained. 

Some of us were more tired than others...Brookie

Megan was so excited...

A darling sleepy eyed one year old Candace...

The kids slept the first few hours and watched movies.  We had breakfast packed to eat in the car.

  The girls did so well on our long first day.  We stopped to stretch for lunch and dinner at rest stops along the way.

Lunch... 

Running laps with Dad...

Dinner--Candace DEVOURED the plums--and was quite a mess, but so cute.  

We made it to our hotel in Albequerque near 6:30 pm and got the girls bathed and in bed.  It was a little tricky to get the girls to calm down enough to sleep with us all in the same room, but we got through. 

We got off near 7 am on Sunday morning and made it to Bountiful just before dinner time.  We got to catch up with Dan's parents and a few of his siblings at dinner that night.  We were so happy to be out of the car!

Starting out the second morning...