Sunday, June 6, 2010

1 van one mom 3 kids under 3-and a 12 hour drive

So I went on a little road trip to Utah 2 weeks ago to visit my family. Brandon had Bid week so he wasnt able to come-but I really wanted to go and may I say my fam and.... Target was totally worth the chaos. So I decided to brave it myself with 3 little munckins call me crazy but I had a definite system I made a juice/bottles snack station a changing station complete with 3 huge packs of diapers juice cups fruit snacks crackers water bottles ect an entertainment bag with Ipod radar detector dvds and cell phone/gps chargers plus all my kids passports mine and a note from brandon telling the border guards I was allowed to take them by myself. I never ever want to watch the movie UP again in my life. almost the whole way down thats what they wanted to watch. Thank heavens I have the van with dvd players it sure helped-I got pulled over in Montana right after the border for going 9 over ...I know.. I was not thrilled. The guy came to my car and saw all 3 kids in the back with co co crying I think he felt bad when I told him I still had 10 hours to go. I also couldn't find my registration- thats when I started to cry- I was so flustered and the cop took pity on my soul and wrote me a warning- the next gas station I found my registration in my flustered state I knocked it out of the glove box to the side of my car... I ran the boys around the van one hundred times and we went on for another 3 hours and repeated this process. 10 hours later we made it to Utah all alive and sane... We
were al thrilled to be out of the car- see how happy my kiddos are../ I love this picture of greyson trying to blow dandelions - we all laughed pretty hard at his face


harrison is my climber this kid is so brave
me and my boys going down the slide
my gorgeous daughter- ahh I cant be more in love with her- loook at those big blue eyes
Grandma Grandpa and aunts/uncles were excited to play with the boys and my boys were even more excited to see them- more pictures to come tomorrow
~Bree

3 comments:

  1. Those pictures of Greyson blowing dandelions are just too cute... They totally made me laugh. And you're right, your daughter IS gorgeous... That picture is adorable!

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  2. Oh, I've braved that trip so many times that my empathy is HUGE. When we lived in Utah and I had 2 kids 17 months apart (both babies) I don't know why I decided to travel so much. Sigh. Glad your trip was successful. I sure wish I had a DVD player back then.

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  3. You are a BRAVE woman. Sounds like a wonderful adventure though.

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