(warning: long, scrapbook post!)
my sister lives in colorado and her son is leaving on a mission to korea. i wanted to be there when he spoke in sacrament meeting, but since we had soccer camp saturday morning, sadie was at youth conference until around noon on saturday, and dave had to work a 24 hour shift starting monday morning, i was a little discouraged as to how to get there. dave got home friday night and we pieced it together to make it work. dave had to go to work saturday morning and so i loaded up, then when the boys and sadie got home, we hopped in the car and drove. we got to my sisters around 10:30pm. it wasn't too bad of a drive. dave and i were happy to sit by each other for nine hours, sadie was happy to sleep and the boys enjoyed playing the nintendo ds which has been lost for the last month. i put it in a "safe" place and never could remember where it was. too safe! infact, when we pulled up my sister's house, after nine hours of driving, they wanted to stay in the car and finish their battle.
sunday we were able to go to church and have dinner, then dave had to fly home. the kids and i stayed and drove home part way tuesday and finished the drive on wednesday. it was a fun, spur of the moment, vacation. it felt good to go on a road trip and i was so happy we were able to see derek before he leaves for two years.
(vivian and kai all ready for church)
cousins
(max, kai, julia, abe)
(jeremy, toby, derek)
susanne and my dad were there. they flew home sunday night with dave.
i am so grateful for my sisters. it was fun to be with them.
monday--we watched cousins' tennis matches/lessons and we went school clothes shopping. we had the best worker at jcrew. she kept my boys trying on all kinds of things and they were having a great time. especially max! i just couldn't pass up this suit....he could wear it to school, right??? he loved it!
tuesday morning, before heading out, we stopped at the denver temple.
we made it to our hotel and relaxed. we ordered pizza, swam and watched the olympics.
abe and kai enjoyed swimming just like the olympic swimmers.
vivian was an awesome traveler. she slept through all the noise and the olympics.
max was my helper when we stopped to stock up on treats for the ride home.
kai must have been hungry because this stem was all that was left of his apple:)
max wants to be a paleontologist when he grows up and we drove through a place called dinosaur, colorado! does anyone else think it's funny that it says the dinosaur speed limit is 25?
we found a warm rock for max---in memory of our drives from flagstaff:)
vivian loved the going away beanie baby gifts from the cousins. she also discovered her voice on this trip and i swear she would sing with sadie. the cutest little noise in the world!
i am so glad we took this trip. i am grateful for my husband who knew i wanted to go and helped make it happen. i thought numerous times what a lucky girl i am. i love my kids and think being a mom is pretty amazing. i am also really grateful for my family. it was fun to spend time with my sister. the kids love these cousins and really had a fun time with them. i hope my kids felt something about missions and how important they are and that their desire to be a missionary was strengthened....plus, i just really love road trips!
