Wow, I haven’t posted in so long it seems. Time just gets away from me I guess!
We had a wonderful 12 day ROAD TRIP! We visited (some just drove through) 12 states.
AZ, Nevada, Utah, WY, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, MO, Kansas, OK, Texas, and New Mexico.
We spent 2 days in the Black hills of SD visiting Mount Rushmore, Bear Country, Hiking Silven Lake and seeing Buffalo. Then down to Avon SD to hang with the Walters (Spring’s sister Faith and family). Then on to Belton MO. to visit the Myer Family (Spring’s sister Lacey & family).
We had a really great time.
Some of the CAR rides were tough when kids would be overtired. However, most of the CAR times were actually really good. We did a lot of planning. Some of our BEST things in the CAR were: Playdough, painting (with water filled paint pens), magnetic blocks, snacks (we made a huge BARRAL of trail mix & inside mini cups so we could easily scoop up), journals, iPad games, & a few cartoons on the dvd player. Spring really tried to limit screen games though.
Packing 8 for a road trip. No easy, but also not terribly hard once I figured it all out.
A Tote: In the tote were Brian, Spring, Adam, Luke, Gideon, Titus, and Annie Mae clothes. I got 3-4 outfits prepared for each kid. Each in a ziplock (labeled with a COLOR sticker for each kid). This made it handy to just grab for hotel nights instead of lugging in a bunch of luggage. Gregory had his own bag for himself. We washed clothes at Faith’s house.
I’m always grateful that Brian unloads the car when we get home 🙂
Will share a slideshow on here soon.