Road Trip

Our busy summer continues as we loaded up the car and headed north for a road trip to see my sister in Nebraska. Monday night, or technically Tuesday morning, we woke up at 3:00 am and put the kiddos in the car and set off. We made it to Gainesville, TX before the girls woke up and just in time to eat at Cracker Barrel. We were the only people there with the exception of some old timer early eaters.

It ended up taking us about 14 hours counting breakfast, lunch and gas stops. We drove through Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and ended up in Lincoln, NE about 5:45 Tuesday evening. We then went straight to my nephew's baseball game and got to meet Maia, my sister's new boxer puppy. The cousins were so happy to see each other. Wednesday morning my brother in law James gave us the tour of the Nebraska football complex. James is the Head Strength and Conditioning coach at Nebraska.
Ellie, Morgan, Mallory and Colton in the weight room. Husker Power.

Here is the Nebraska indoor football field. It also had an indoor sand volleyball court for the volleyball team and indoor batting cages.
The famous blackshirts which is Nebraska's defense. Ellie, Morgan and Mallory( I apologize for my camera- the settings were off and the pictures came out crappy)
Statue outside of complex. Anyone seen Morgan's other leg?

We went to the country club after the tour and swam with the kiddos. Lonnie went with James to a track where they rode four wheelers. On Thursday we hung out and then took all the kids to see Toy Story 3 in 3D. I highly recommend seeing it. I even got choked up in some parts. Thursday night we dropped Ellie off at gymnastics and even got to watch a little. She is quite the limber little girl! She likes to do flips and flops all over the place. Mallory tried to keep up but I was afraid she was going to break her neck.

Morgan passed out in the car going back to Becca's house which led us to the idea of just loading the kids up and driving through the night. We weighed the pros and cons and decided the longer the kids would sleep while we drove, the better. So we loaded up and left Lincoln at 10:00 pm. Our plan worked. Not only did the kids sleep about 9 hours of the drive but we shaved off a few hours with less stops. We arrived in The Woodlands at 10:30. What we didn't account for was the kids rested and us exhausted when we got back. We managed some naps however.

The trip was quick but fun for the girls to get to see their cousins and Aunt and Uncle. Thanks for having us Aunt Becca!

This doesn't really go along with my post but I had to put in on here. Case has started laughing a lot lately and the girls always crack him up. We got home the other day and they were running around crazy and Case was belly laughing. I grabbed the camera and below is what I got.