Thanksgiving Road Trip

In July I got a text from my sister Randi. It read "I was thinking about our little girls and was wondering what I could do to try and talk you into coming for a visit? Maybe for Thanksgiving??? Our girls need to play together before they go off to college!"  Well, Michael and I had been talking about how it had been too long since seeing my brother Brent and his wife Randi. AND that we still had not met their little girl Brennalyn who was nearly 16 months at the time of the invite. SO we agreed on a road trip to Sierra Vista for the holiday week. It's a 12 hour drive, which we had initially planned to break up over a couple days on the weekend but Michael had to work in the Austin office on Monday morning so we left that afternoon and drove straight through the night. Lucky for us our kids enjoy traveling and were excited to finally play with cousin Brenna, so the trip was rather easy with them sleeping and/or doing activities the whole time. We made it their house at 5am which I know was rough for them to get up so early but we all crashed soon after and were back on schedule in no time. In fact the girls ended up waking up at about 9:30am and then going down for naps at the same time as Brenna did, so it was great that we were able to enjoy our time together and not through off the system too much. I'm so grateful that Heavenly Father blessed me with such happy easy-going kids so that we can travel to see our family spread out all over. And I'm so grateful for the invitation that we got to spend Thanksgiving in Arizona because we enjoyed every moment with Brenna, Randi and Brent. It was a long haul road trip but worth every mile traveled.