16 hours in a car

We spent 16 hours in the car this past weekend to attend the wedding of a good friend. We drove out of town Friday night with an almost 2 year old and a one month old. What were we thinking?

Jack is a GREAT traveler. He loves cars and trucks and diggers and spent the entire trip to Washington, D.C. pointing them out as we drove while snuggling his favorite puppy.

Addy slept between feedings and only required a few extra stops along our way. Unfortunately, one of our stops for a feeding lead to a drained battery in Lewisburg, PA. The good thing is that we happened to be near a Taco Bell/KFC with a nice manager and 7 boys to help push start our car when the jump start did not work. Thank you boys!

While Ryan, Amy and Tracie (Ryan's sister) were all inside the D.C. Temple, Brother-in-Law Jay was taking one for the team by watching all 4 children back at the hotel. 4 children under the age of 3 with the youngest just 5 weeks old. Yep, he's a saint. Especially when the sealing ran a little long and the youngest baby was SCREAMING for food.

So we're all dressed up at the reception eating a lovely meal without children in tow and this is the only pictures we have of the four of us. Notice no Ryan and no Tracie and just Amy's hair and half of Jay's head. (and the bride and groom are not even aware the picture is being taken). So sad to not have a picture of the four of us looking smashing. It just shows you what a great time we were having that we forgot to take any pictures.

Here is a picture of Mariam and her lovely bouquet.
She did not put it down once it was in her hands.

We would drive the 8 hours again just for the pleasure of cousins spending time together. The added bonus was that Jack got to see his cousins on his birthday.

Mariam helped Jack open his Toby train and she sang him happy birthday.


We got to see, not so little any more, Joshua too.

Ryan and I took the kids to the temple on Sunday before we drove home. Jack would not put his new digger down. (thank you cousins for a great present)


On the way home, Jack got to eat his birthday donut. (Notice that he is still not putting down the digger. The digger and puppy kept him happy the whole way home.)