Friends and Fun!!!!!

Yeah, I finally am getting to all our fun vacation pictures!!! So here is the start of our trip! We did the drive from Texas to Utah (YUCK!!!) with some friends (YEAH!!). So it was my friend Sheila and her 4 kids, and then me, Sadie and Lucy, joined in their car! It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. The last few hours on the way back home was obnoxious but it was okay. Also, a major bump in the road was when we had a blow out about an hour past Lubbock! Good thing this happened on the way THERE or we would have all killed each other! When we first pulled over to the side of the road and saw the damage, we realized the jack was under ALL the luggage in the back. So since I have AAA we called. They said it would be about an hour, so we figured by the time we took all our luggage out and started, they would get there. So lets not waste OUR energy and just wait. So we waited, and waited and waited! Finally after an hour and a half I called and they said they were having a hard time finding someone and that it would be about an hour or so more!!!! They had even put a "rush" on our claim because we were on the side of a freeway with 6 children!! So we were annoyed and said, okay lets just do this ourselves. So we start to pull everything out and get the jack out but as we are we realize we don't have a flashlight and can't see a thing!!! So we HAVE to wait for them now! So as we are waiting we are trying to conserve gas, the battery etc. But the kids need entertainment so we've got movies going, DS's charging etc. We started the car every now and then to get cooled off since it was so hot! We couldn't roll down the windows because there were tons of mosquitos! Which we were already getting eaten alive from a few that snuck in while we were getting in and out. Finally after 3 hours of waiting on the side of the road, the guy came and by this point we needed a jump too!!! So another hour and we were on hour way!!! 4 hours totally wasted!! Considering how annoyed the adults were, the kids were amazing!! Like I said, we were just so glad this happened on the way there!!!! We had moments when we just all screamed as loud as we could because we definitely needed to get it out!!! It was fun and the kids loved it!! Sadie said on our second day of driving on our way back from Utah, "Why do you lock me in the car every day!!!!" (Here the whining!) It was hilarious!!! Here's the damage.

Left to right: Sadie, McKenzie, Lucy, Kaleb, Colton, Beau

Happier times!!! Swimming and being FREE!!!!! Colton and Sadie.

Sadie and McKenzie

Poor Lucy was sleeping and didn't get to join in on the fun. But here is Sadie, McKenzie, Colton, Beau and Kaleb be silly in one blow up pool!