Our First Road Trip

Mark, Jacob, Maddie and I took our first road trip to Houston last weekend...and survived! I was co-hosting Rachel's baby shower on Sunday. We left on Friday around 4 pm which was a huge mistake because we sat in traffic for a good hour. Maddie was not happy about it at all and cried for most of the first hour until we got going at a steady speed on the highway. Jacob was thrilled to have the DVD player in the car and was content watching Dora, Thomas and Little Einsteins (I was the lucky one changing the DVD at his every demand.) We made it in 4 hours which is longer than normal but the important part is, we made it!

The weekend was great. Jacob loved seeing ALL of his cousins (even Frank and Tori came down for the weekend) and the baby shower was a great success. I miss all of my girls already!!

Mark had to go to St. Louis for work on Monday morning and he flew out of Houston since we were there already. I was secretly terrified of driving back to Dallas with the kids by myself so when my Dad offered to drive back with me, I was so relieved (thanks Dad!) Of course, both Jacob and Maddie slept through the majority of the car ride back so it probably wasn't necessary, but I am not one to take chances!

Since we had all of the family together (which rarely happens), we jumped on the opportunity for some photos:

Hayden, Hallie, Tori (with Maddie), Hudson and Jacob:



Joshua, Hudson, Brooke, Tori, Maddie, Jacob, Hunter, Hallie and Hayden:



All the kids and their kids (too many to name!)



The whole family!



All the ladies...



And the boys...



Love this one...



Hunter and Jacob



Stephanie, Jill, Rachel (mommy to be) and Julie



All the girls at the shower