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Kate in sunglasses
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Roadside potty emergencies
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Gavin peeing on the side of the van
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Zach
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Gavin coughing all over everyone
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Lexi choosing to sleep on the floor in the motel
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Kate waking up at 4:30 a.m.
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Hanging out with a bunch of bus-touring retirees in the motel breakfast room for an hour
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Finally finishing the Christmas stockings (on Gilbert Road)
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Greeting lots of family and friends in Mesa
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Seeing Granny & Gramps' new-and-improved, post-fire house (they moved in two weeks ago)
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Playing with cousins
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Zach barfing in the middle of the night
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Helping Holly cover paper lanterns with doilies
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Garry providing lots of muscle for reception set-up
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Hanging out at the park for two hours with the kids, and then cleaning up sand at home for an hour
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Tyler waking up in the night with croup
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Garry handling it
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Enjoying Ryan and Nichole's beautiful sealing ceremony and all associated festivities (post to come)
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Celebrating Zach's and Eric's birthdays
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Lexi wetting the bed for the first time ever
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Hitting the road for home 12 hours after Ryan and Nichole's reception
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Gavin having a bladder the size of a pixie's thimble
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Kate screeching shrilly every time she wanted a snack/binky/blanket/attention
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DVDs blaring in the back seats
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Getting a flurry of texts regarding the dramatic ward split happening in church
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Pondering the extensive ramifications of the ward split, including Garry's and my sudden no-calling status
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Deciding an hour before Albuquerque that we'd make the entire 780-mile trip home in one day, despite leaving Mesa at 9:00 a.m.
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Having a collective family meltdown at McDonald's in Santa Fe
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Distracting myself with Christmas music (true story)
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Returning to an undisturbed house in cold Colorado Springs at 12:00 a.m.
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Garry driving every single mile of the whole crazy journey and then going back out for milk at the grocery store
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Watching TV because we couldn't sleep in the wee hours of the morning
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The end.
8 comments:
Wow!
Thanks for making the heroic effort to come to Mesa.
Dad
I also have a child with the smallest bladder on the planet. He would ask for a drink as soon as we hit the road and I would always say NO so I could at least get a little driving in before we had to pull over. Boys are so much easier than girls. We have stopped with Jordan in emergencies and I wish we still had the potty seat!
Wow! That sounds like quite the adventure:) Glad you all made it home safely. Tell Garry we will miss him being our home teacher:) I hope we can still have playdates with Owen & Tyler.
Wow, sounds exhausting. Glad you made it home safely. Sorry you have sickness in the fam. So a new ward huh?
It probably wouldn't be a family trip without a family meltdown...
But seriously, that was a packed trip with lots of good and crazy. I will look forward to hearing about your new ward. I hope you are resting more now that you are home. And I hope the medicine is still working (dextromethorphan is my close friend right now, too). I hope there is lots of trending toward health. Lots.
One thing you can always be assured of, road trips are sure to be eventful! It sounds like a fun, happy, crazy and of course, grody time (no road trip is complete without barf in our family!). :) I am sure Bishop Shumway will remedy your callingless status quickly!
that post = true dedication. :)
gabrielle (if you can imagine...she was a stinker when she was little) made us stop at every rest stop from beaverton-disneyland
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