Family Vacation!

One of the best parts of homeschooling is that we can take our family vacations whenever we want! It's been 2 years since we've seen my side of the family so this year we decided we needed to get out west to Wyoming to see them! Thankfully Josh had a lot vacation time so we were able to take a 2 week vacation.. We have small children so I was worried how they'd be on such a long drive (takes 24.5 hrs without stops) so I asked for advice in a few of my big family groups. One thing that was suggested was that we leave really early in the morning before the kids wake up so that they'd sleep several hours at the beginning of the trip.. So we decided we'd leave at 3 am... Well the kids woke up moving them from their beds to the car and they were WAY too excited to sleep haha. 

Girls enjoying our trip!

First part of our trip was great! Girls were LOVING it! After a while though, they realized that this trip was going to be a lot longer than they originally thought. Payton was by far the worst! By the end of the day she was tired of being in her car seat. We ended up just trying to sleep in our car on the way there which we really regretted. Anyway, we eventually made it and it was absolutely gorgeous!

My brother also has 4 kids and we hadn't met their youngest yet so it was pretty excited meeting him and getting all of the kiddos together! I think that is one of the hardest parts about living so far away. I wish our children could grow up together and be close. It was really nice though because this visit my entire family took time off work so there was never any downtime. We got to spend a lot of time together. Even my Auntie Heidi came up from New Mexico so we got to see her too! 

I'm hoping that we can make it out there again next year! I can't wait to see everyone again!