Choose Your Own Adventure

I can't believe it's been four months since my last post (thank you Travis for reminding me about my blog). I guess traveling all over the United States with five children has kept me too busy to do anything else. While Melany flew with Lila (our 7 month old baby) to her grandpa's funeral, I drove with the other four kids all the way to Southern California from Oklahoma...yep, that's over 20 hours of driving! What an adventure! The truth is the kids did GREAT! So even though it was tiring, it could have been much worse.

That was over a month ago. We spent a week in SoCali, then we drove to Utah (and stopped in Nevada for 2 days to see our friends the Jensens), we spent almost two weeks at my sister-in-law's house and then we drove to NoCali to see Melany's mom. After 2 more weeks we are ready to drive down (back) to SoCali to spend some time with Robert and Heather (my brother and sister-in-law). We plan to go to Disneyland and Legoland. The kids are really looking forward to this. It's supposed to be the highlight of our family vacation, although I don't think anything could top grandma and grandpa Purser's pool, ice cream machine, shaved ice machine, zip line, climbing wall, and ping pong table. Anyway, we will try our best to keep our children happy until we go back to Oklahoma (where the weather has been reaching the hundreds for the last few weeks) JOY!

I have especially enjoyed seeing old friends during this trip. I went to Olive Garden with Michael Monsen (and watched Transformers 2), I saw Antonio Santos after 10 years (and finally met his wife), we had FHE with the Burninghams (machangos!) and enjoyed breakfast with Joy Harris at the Golden Corral. I really hope to see Mckee's family before we go back home as well as the Bramans. To all those who emailed, called or visited us during this trip, thank you so much for your friendship. You guys make crazy long road trips much funner. Speaking of road trips, on the way to SoCali I witnessed an accident involving a car and an 18-wheleer. Both drivers survived even though their cars ended up upside down! But that sounds like it should be told in another post.