Life Is A Highway

At least that's what it felt like Friday and Saturday. Jack and I drove over to Nashville on Friday afternoon to pick up Kelly, Ryan and Abbott to head to Texas. We left Nashville about 4 pm with our final destination being Texarkana. We'd used Hotwire to book a room so we had to make it there or we'd lose our money. We should have arrived at 11:30 pm. We didn't make it until 2 am. Our first mistake was deciding to stop at Olive Garden and eat dinner. That set us back an hour and a half. We were doing ok until we got about 50 miles outside of Little Rock and came to a stand still for 45 minutes on I-40. We debated begging the hotel to change our reservation to Little Rock but decided driving time with sleeping boys was better than driving time with awake boys who didn't want to be in the car so we made it to Texarkana. We left Saturday morning at 8 am and drove to Dallas. We had lunch with our great Aunt Treville and then went to visit one of our best friends Jeremy and his family. Jeremy used to live down the street from us in Amarillo and we pretty much grew up together. We hadn't seen each other in 2 1/2 years so it was definitely time. It was so nice to see him and his wife, Jenny Lynn and their kids Peter, Isabelle, Daniel and Luci. Jack & Abbott had fun playing with them. We then headed onto Athens and arrived about 5 pm. It was a long 2 days and looking back it wasn't too bad. The boys did pretty good traveling and the adults were silly enough to make the time pass. Today we're celebrating our cousin Rebekah and her baby, who will arrive in August, with a baby shower on the hill. Here are a few pictures from our traveling days.

Ryan needed the peace monkey to help him drive.

Jack needed the peace monkey to help him stay sane.

Jack & Isabelle playing with the train set. Jack loved this train, more than he loves his remote control one at home.

Peter & Isabelle being silly.

Here's our group. Back row: Jenny Lynn, Luci, Jeremy, Me, Kelly & Ryan. Front Row: Daniel, Isabelle, Peter, Jack & Abbott.

Abbott having fun on the swing and slide.

Daniel helping Luci swing and patiently waiting for his turn.

Swinging with Isabelle.

Dads playing soccer with babies. I think this should be a new sport.

Swinging with Abbott.

Isabelle loved to be right near Abbott. She would hold his hands and help him walk around.

Jack & Uncle Jeremy.

Three tired boys.

2 crazy girls. Don't worry, we were sitting in traffic.