I’m blessed and SO thankful to have a wonderfully sweet & giving mother in law! I couldn’t have handpicked her better myself! She kinda reminds me of Angela Lansbury (minus the British accent ofcourse) to give you a mental picture. Even sings like her. :) She makes the 6 hr drive to see us quite often. We’re fortunate to live in the middle of her other 2 kids (Jon’s older brother and sister) so she typically stays at our house. We’ve definitely taken this for granted and haven’t been out to Dalhart, Jon’s home town and where Judy still lives, since Christmas…and even then, we just passed thru on our way to Colorado. Few in town had met Joel and most hadn’t seen Jude since he was just starting to walk. So…we packed up the house (very little exaggeration) and if my calculations are correct…we drove 883.46 miles over the holiday weekend making the rounds visiting my parent’s, Judy’s and Jon’s dad’s house!
I wish I had taken a better picture of the inside of our 4Runner! Suitcases, blankets, ice chest, diaper bag, swing, boppy, play mat, travel booster seat…Bentley (our D-O-G) in between the two car seats. It was a site!
Being Labor Day weekend, we had Friday and Monday off work. We loaded up and headed west for Roscoe Thursday afternoon pulling into Highland High School just before half time to watch the end of my little brother’s football game. He’s the QB this year. “GO KEVIN!” We stayed the night with my parents Thursday then got up and headed to Dumas to see Jon’s dad Friday. We got there around 4:00…in time for Jon to help his dad a little bit (install windows) on a building he’s working on and eat a delicious steak dinner! From there we went on to Judy’s where we stayed thru Monday early afternoon. We got to see several but some but even having 4 full days…the weekend flew by as usual! Jude and Joel soaked up the attention and love being at all of their grandparent’s houses! The weather was amazing and we were sad to leave Monday afternoon. We made a stop in Dumas for lunch and to meet Jay, Mary’s (Jon’s step sister) fiancé before heading home. Why is it that the drive home always seems so much longer than the trip going?! We got home around 8:20…I did a load of laundry, ran the dishwasher and unpacked…before I knew it, it was 10:30! Lights out!
It was a wonderful weekend! Thanks to my parents for DVD player! Jude enjoyed being able to watch sesame street in the car and we loved that it occupied him! ;-) Thanks to Judy for letting us invade your home w/all ours and the boy’s stuff! :) Thankful Melanie is such a fabulous garage saler! Jude LOVED all the toys at Grumpa and Mimi’s house! HeHe. Thanks to Lisa for the cute homemade humpty dumpty pillow dolls! Thanks to the ladies at church for ensuring Jude didn’t escape after lunch when he was crazy running around! And thanks to everyone who stopped by Judy’s house to come see us – we love you all! AND ofcourse thanks to ALL for the delicious food…we’re all fat now! ;-)
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