Texas Road Trip

We are just returning from a whirlwind road-trip to Texas, that included nearly 3000 miles driven, 5 nights in 4 different hotels in 3 different states, and 4 nights at 2 different grandparents houses in between. My girls are rockstart travelers!!! We did a terrible job taking pictures.....maybe it was because we were always busy packing/unpacking, loading/reloading or driving somewhere! We drove 10 hours the first day and spent the night in Little Rock, Arkansas. The next morning we were up bright and early to drive the last 6 to my parents house. We spent the night there and then headed to Dallas for 2 nights in a hotel where we saw my mom and spent some time with extended family. From there, we drove to Temple, Texas and stayed a few days at Tommy's parents house. One night, we left the kids there and snuck away for 24 hours in Austin!!! It was a much needed late anniversary celebration....first time we have been out since we moved to Cincy (takes a long time to find a sitter you can trust with 3 small kids!). Finally, Saturday morning we left his parents house at 4:30am and drove 12 hours to Nashville. We spent the night there and left at 5am Sunday morning for the last 6 hours home. Big thanks to my husband....he gets up at the crack of dawn and always drives the first 4 or 5 hours while the rest of us are crashed-out sleeping!!! It sure makes the trips go faster that way.

The girls were so excited to be reunited with the horses!!!

We spent several hours outside from around 2:30 to 5:30 in the afternoon....it was BLAZING HOT!!


Daddy took his shirt off, so she did too.

Reagan loves to swing from the lead-lines hanging in the barn.

They rode back and forth inside one of the barns, where it was a little cooler.

Reagan rides for a minute and then she is off, playing in the dirt. Addison is a truely in love with the horses and stays on them or with them every second she can.

Gracyn had the best expression ever, when the horse began walking with her. She loved it!!

We had cupcakes for Miss Debra's birthday.

We visited Tommy's Grandmother.

Mimi took the day off. We went shopping, ate at In and Out and played at our hotel.

She watched the girls while I had dinner out with my friends. This is the only photographic evidence that I was even on the trip!!! Tommy got to meet up with a friend from Coke in Denver, who has recently been transferred to Dallas.

Christie, Shannon and her daughter Kaleigh came back to hang out at the hotel pool. Addison was happy to have a friend for swimming.

We had dinner at Uncle Steve and Aunt Dannea's new house.

We hung out at Grandma and Pampa's house. Gracyn LOVES their headphones.

Steve and Dannea have two little puppies....Major and Oliver. Our girls LOVE them. The puppies were very tolerant.

Picture attempts on the final night at 9:30pm.

Maybe not the best time. :)

We had a great trip and loved spending time with all of our family. The girls had a blast and said it was their favorite summer vacation. So glad we were able to go!