Heading Home

 We are heading home today! My sister is coming with us (to experience Disney at Christmastime and help to keep Betty entertained on the drive) and we headed out nice and early. 

We had an uneventful drive home, but we sure did hit a lot of traffic and ended up taking a couple of hours longer than originally planned. But we made it! Time to rest! 

First Road Trip

 Y'all, today was Betty's first long road trip! We made the trip from here in CA to Utah for the good ole holidays. We got her a little backseat hammock and lots of treats, and settled in for the drive. 

She was WAY too hype for the first bit. We kept trying to get her to sit down and plied her with treats but she immediately got back up. Then, after about 4 or so hours, we gave her a calming CBD chew, so that she would sit down and go to sleep. 

And that worked like an absolute charm haha she slept for most of the rest of the way. 

We arrived at around 9:00 or so, absolutely spent and ready for bed. 

To Georgia and Home

Yesterday was spent getting stuff for the house and unpacking, so no pictures took for the day, so sorry to disappoint ha ha. Today, we left Knoxville pretty early and drove to Georgia to fly out. Georgia was a 3 hour drive, but we decided that a three hour drive for a non-stop flight was better than a flight from Knoxville and a three hour flight. Not for us, necessarily, but Texas and Chani were flying with us to Utah to pick up their kids and get right back on the plane, and nobody wants to do that long of a layover with 4 cranky kids, so we made the drive. 

 We couldn't get out of the car for the Georgia state sign (construction + traffic + rainy weather = no thank you) but we still snagged a photo.

At the airport we had to wear masks of course to fly out. Even though Wash didn't need one, we put him in a mask long enough to take some photos and then took it off, but he didn't seem to mind it too much. 

I had such a great trip! I didn't think being in a car for that long would be good, but honestly, we had a blast. I'm still in denial that our family has moved, and I'm sure it'll hit me later. Luckily in this day and age, we have technology to still talk and see each other as much as we would like to. 

Road Trip Finisher!

Y'all, we made it to Knoxville! We got there a bit after noon, and then in the hot hot hot hot hot Tennessee sun, we had to unload a giant UHaul truck. Luckily, we had members of their ward come over and help us. We were absolutely soaked in sweat by the end, and I think I had an extra 6000 steps by the end of it.

Wash was just happy to be out of the car after so many days!

Road Trip! Day 3 - Kentucky and Tennessee

Here we continue on the trip! Today is our most exciting day - we are stopping in a city called Ste Genevieve in Missouri! Excitement!

First I grabbed a pic of the sunrise as I was out running. Then we hit the road! 

We made it! It's real! 

 I love this place, what a great town.
 I'm not sure of the order of the towns we went through, but you get the idea.

And then our final destination of the day was Tennessee! We stopped in Nashville for the night, a few short hours of our final destination, Knoxville. Hard to believe we're almost there!

Road Trip! Day 2 - Missouri

We left from Nebraska this morning on our way to Missouri. We went through about 10 minutes of Iowa and would have loved to get a picture of that sign, but due to construction in Iowa, that was apparently not possible. Freaking dumb Iowa, you ruin it. But otherwise, a great day!

Then I was like, hmmm I don't have any pics with Adam, so on our way to get some food, we snapped a pic in the dusk.

 Then I snagged a pic of the sunset, which I really loved.

Road Trip! Day 1 - Wyoming and Nebraska

Today starts a very sad road trip. We are driving across the country to help my SIL and BIL move. My fav humans on this side of the family, and they'll be moving. Alas. But we have a few days of spending all day in a car together, so that will help, I think. We drove today, starting in Utah (duh) and we went through Wyoming through Nebraska, stopping for the night in Nebraska. Myself and Chani were in the van with baby Wash, and Husband was in the UHaul with her husband, Texas. We drove separately, since we went at different speeds, and we would have to stop to feed Wash, as he is a 3 month old baby and needs to eat, of course. We also made sure to stop at each state sign. 

 We did some great pics, and then I snagged this with baby Wash when we got to our destination for the evening.

 Look at those wide, wide eyes, I love him.

Road Trip/Reunion

This weekend, we took a road trip to Montana for Husband’s family reunion. In our car we had, myself, Husband, husband’s brother, his wife, and their child, E-Money. We gave her a magazine, and she enjoyed the ride up.

The ride wasn’t too bad, and luckily it passed pretty quickly. We were given nametags as soon as we got there.

The reunion was all right, but it got over really quickly. It seemed like we had just gotten there and then all of a sudden, we were packing up Sunday morning to go. There wasn’t anything too interesting to report on in the interim, just swimming in the hot springs, and chilling out with family. The ride home was longer, but I think that’s how it always goes. I’m just so excited to be home that the ride seems to drag on. It was fun, I drove my car for the ride, and it was nice to have a car with room, and where people fit and nobody was fighting for space. Happy to be home, though!

A Road Trip

Today, I took a sort of impromptu trip to Colorado. Chelle was going, and I went with her. It was a blast. We left at about 1:00 in the afternoon Friday, and arrived there before 5:00, so we made some pretty good time. The drive there was fun, we listened to a book on tape, The Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites. It was a good book, listening to it made the miles and the time fly. The drive was pretty scenic:

And finally, we made it to the border!

we battled some fog on the way in, but other than that, no real weather mishaps. We watched a basketball game there, and it was fun, of course. A lot of yelling, and cheering, and good times ensued. I had myself a bag of popcorn as a treat, and Chelle had a pickle, and that just made me laugh. It was delicious though, I had a bite of one. We snapped a selfie during the game:

And before we knew it, it was time to head back. We hit the road again, and this time, we had some more fog, that made me nervous a little, but we made it back in one piece, just a little after midnight. It was an awesome trip, and it was just so fun and impromptu to just head to Colorado for a day and come back. Sadly, we didn’t get to finish our book on tape, but hopefully we’ll get to do that soon, because I just want to know how it ends!