Road Trip

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The three of us are getting ready for a road trip!
We are going to Kansas to visit Brian's brother Kurtis, his wife Jenny and their 3 adorable little girls!
It is about a 16 hour drive.... That's a lot of miles!
But, we are so excited to be visiting family and going on a little vacation!

Brian's other brother {Kurtis' twin} Kevin, his wife Brooke, and their 3 girls are also going!
Brian and Kevin are just staying for the weekend then leaving all the girls in Kansas for the rest of the week.

That means....
One house + 10 girls + Kurtis.
poor Kurtis.
I am SO excited!

Today I have been trying to get everything ready for our trip.
It's been a to-do list kind of day. 

So far I have:
gotten the oil changed in the car
washed the car
filled it up with gas
gone "snack" shopping {sun flower seeds, granola bars, fruit snacks, ect...}
gone to the library to get some cd's on tap and books for entertainment

Now if only all the laundry could be magically done! :)


I have a lot of  "road trip "memories from my childhood. I grew up in northern california.
All my family, grandparents, cousins, aunts & uncles lived in utah so we made the long trek from ca to ut several times.

Memories from my childhood road trips:

-wanting to pack my "toy bag" weeks in advance to make sure I had plenty of thing to play with while we drove.

-not being able to sleep the night before because I was so excited to see my cousins and grandparents.

-My dad carrying me out to the car at 4am, when it was still dark, to start our road trip.

-Stopping in Winamuka at mcdonalds to eat and play at the play place. I swear Winamuka has the coolest play place ever! They have this "ball washing system". You put the balls from the ball pit into a tube, and they come out another tube wet and clean!

-Putting my shoes on as soon as we saw the "welcome to utah" sign. I wanted to be able to jump out of the car as soon as we got to grandma's. Little did I know her house was 2 hours away from that sign.

- Collecting Chevron cars from gas stations along the way. 
 I still have my collection today actually!

- Eating Buggles on the drive. I would put them on all my fingers so it looked like I had witch finger nails. My mom would only buy Buggles for our drives to Utah. They were a special road tip treat!

- On our final drive to ut {because we were moving there} I got to ride with my Grandpa Cottle. He came out to ca to help us move. I rode with him back to utah and we had a blast! Once in a while he would play his harmonica while we were driving.

Lots of fun memories!