Thursday, July 22, 2010

Summer Road Trip #3

On our first two road trips, I didn't take too many pictures, I think I made up for it on this one! I narrowed this down and probably only have 1/8th of the pictures I actually took, and there are still A LOT!
On June 29th after Allan got off work, we loaded up in the van and drove to Arizona. We drove all night and got to Allan's brother's house about 5:00 am. It was a long drive, but it was kind of nice that the kids were asleep most of the way!
We had SO much fun, and it was a very relaxing vacation. The kids played with their cousins, Jackson and Natalie (above) Brandon (below)
These boys were so great to play with my little girls and keep them entertained! Riley (below)
And this is EMILY! Emily was born about 2 weeks after Hailey, and my girls LOVE her!
Basically we spent the whole time doing this...








and a little of this...

and a little more of this....





We left on the 4th of July so here are some of my kids in their 4th attire.
If only I had 4 kids that would be a great picture of them, but the 5th child was doing this.
While we drove home, we stopped at a Mc Donalds for lunch and made another attempt at some pictures of the kids, these ones turned out much better!
BOY DO I HAVE CUTE KIDS!!!
I enjoyed this trip so much. It was wonderful to visit with Jonathan and Kari and to let our kids play. Kari told me that if we came we could expect a lot of sleeping and swimming and visiting, and that's just what we got. I got to relax and read and swim and play more than I can remember doing in years. It was FABULOUS!!!

5 comments:

Amanda said...

Your kids are seriously so cute. And you little guy is growing so fast!

Janae -- Thoughts in Vinyl said...

How fun! Those last two pics of all the kids are so cute.

James and Tricia Thomas said...

Sounds like my kind of vacation!!! Looks like a lot of fun!! I love that picture of the kids it is perfect! I cannot wait to see you in your new clothes!

Kari Roberts Staker said...

Hey I loved the pics of all the kids! Your girls wore my boys out! It was great seeing you guys. You would think that since I have 3 boys and 1 girl that I would be goo-goo over the girls, but I think Brayden won my heart. He was such a good baby when he was here. The only one of my babies I could compare him to is Brandon. Brandon was similar, though now he is a typical teenager with a big mouth! Tell Hailey that Emily just lost a tooth too. Oh, and we finally settled with PDS today, paperwork, checks, etc. I major stress down, a zillion to go. That whole endure to the end thing just doesn't work for me unless *they* are going to tell me when the end is! lol

Kari Roberts Staker said...

That should say "One" major stress. I can't ever seem to post something without typos. Oh, and I really do need help fixing my blog. It just fell apart. Any websites you can think of that have really nice backgrounds I could use?