So recently we took a trip to Utah to visit family and attend a wedding! It was a lot of fun and the trip was a little more eventful than we are used to. On the way out we made good time, we left our house in KY on Friday evening around 6pm and got to Adam and Marie's place at about 3a.m. we stayed with them for all of Sat. The kids were excited to see cousins and it was a great visit. Marie made arrangements for us to go to a school carnival and so the kids enjoyed the fun and games there, they ate more sugar than I think we had planned but over all it was a great success. Koen and Eli are about the same size so that was fun to see, and Evelyn desperately wanted to stay instead of continueing on but of course that was not an option.
Sunday morning we got up and headed to Saint Joseph, we needed to check on the house up there and I had promised a few of the Young Women in the area that I would stop in and say hi. While the children and I walked around walmart with Marissa Kevin checked on things at the house and finally at about 10am we were on the road again and headed toward Utah! We made great time the kids were entertained with books and a video. We were lucky in that we were able to drive a rental car courtesy of Ford. Once we got into Wyoming the roads of course got a little bad and so we had to slow down, there were signs everywhere warning of black ice and a suggested speed of 45MPH. We passed a wreck involving a semi truck and that looked really bad. A little around midnight we passed through Rawlings we had intended to continue on and make it to my parents house around 3:3oa.m. but they closed I80 so we turned around and headed back into Rawlings where we got a hotel and stayed the night.
Monday morning we got up and headed out finally arriving at my family's house around 1pm. We were glad to arrive safely as the roads were terrible past Rawlings and we passed several accidents in the process of being cleaned up.
It was of course great to see everyone in my family, Miles and Joseph are so grown up I can't believe it every time I see them! When I think of them I think of how they were when I moved out, it is fun to hear there stories and see how they are different but exactly the same as all the rest of us! Of course the cousins had a great time together, Evelyn would love to have a little sister and was in rapture doting on Mari. James and John make Koen look like a baby they are so mature and talking. Kaiden was in heaven to have so many boy cousins his age! Julianna is a little bit the odd one out but she loves being the oldest girl in the group and she love the attention she get from grandma!
I have a lot more to write so I will have to add another post later it is late here and my bed is calling!!
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