On The Road Again

On Monday, May 9th, we started our road trip to our new destination. We had a week to make the trip, so we decided to take it slow (at first) and make stops at all our grandparents along the way. We would have loved to spend a week with each of them, but we were happy to have the chance to at least spend the night.

Our first stop was to see Grandma and Grandpa Haworth. It was great to be back on the farm, and spend some more time with Grandma and Grandpa. The kids loved watching some basketball games, jumping on the tramp, and feeding cows out on the farm. We loved having time to visit with Grandma and Grandpa, look at old pictures, and listen to stories.

Emily just walked over to Grandpa and wanted to sit on his lap, it was pretty cute.

Tuesday morning we headed to the Tanners. The kids loved playing with Austin and Rowan, playing outside on the playground and toys, and taking rides in the 'Rhino'. They all got along so well together. I wish we lived closer so the kids could play more often. Again, we loved visiting with Grandma and Grandpa, sharing stories and memories.



We left Wednesday morning for Grandma Hiller's home. As an added bonus, Kristie and Lilah drove up to spend the day with us there. It was fun to see Grandma again, she's such an entertaining sweet lady. The boys loved Grandma's yard as always. I especially loved watching Emily and Lilah play together. They get cuter and cuter together the older they get. I'm really sad they won't get to see each other as much, but we'll take what we can get. We had a yummy dinner together that night and then said goodbye to Kristie and Lilah & gave hugs to Grandma who had her early temple session in the morning.

Thursday morning we got everything packed, and bathed kids. I was lucky to squeeze in a quick run, and then we were off to see Grandma Forman. Our original plans of taking her to lunch ended up not working out because our schedule changed- we were sad about that. But we were so happy we were able to see her, even for a quick visit. She looked as beautiful and radiant as ever. The kids enjoyed seeing 'Sister Forman' with her missionary tag, and we were able to take a couple pictures with the temple in the background. We sure love her and were glad we could see her.

From there we started our long drive. The kids did well- fortunately they're seasoned travelers. The only mishap we had along the trip was at one stop. We stopped to fill up with gas and get the kids some ice cream cones. Matthew wasn't paying attention very well, and walked RIGHT through a new section of concrete that had just been poured and smoothed. I had seen the guy finishing up right before I ran in to the gas station. Matthew had wet concrete all over his legs up to his knees & up to his elbows when he had fallen down. It was pretty bad. I looked at Jeff, speechless, then we just started busting up. I felt bad, but it was just too funny. Fortunately, we were able to get him cleaned up- and luckily the guy still had more concrete work to do, so he just re-smoothed the area and it wasn't a big deal. I'm a little sad now that I didn't take a picture, but at the time I didn't really want to bring any more attention to the situation.
The kids played, read, talked and laughed, and slept. They were happy to have a dvd player too. We wanted to make the drive as quickly as possible, so we just drove straight through without stopping other than to fill-up, and one stop for a stranded traveler*. We arrived about 4:30 on Friday morning- where Jeff realized the garage door pad wasn't working, so we drove around to try and find a battery at a gas station, then when we got back he realized he just hadn't been entering the code right. We finally got in, got kids in bed (our movers even set up our beds- thank heavens!) and we crawled into bed about 5:30am. It was nice to be home!