We celebrated the 4th of July at the lake. My favorite part was getting to play the drums (on inverted trash cans and paint cans no less) at the family talent show with a Ugandan priest who spent the day with us.
Category: Trips
Perennials and Pools…
We stopped just inside the North Carolina state line at a rest stop, where the boys enjoyed checking out a perennial garden of daisies, black-eyed susans, day lilies, roses, and purple coneflowers.
When we got to the hotel where we spent the night, Xander kept asking if Tom and I were staying in the room too, if we were going to be at the lake too…sweet precious boy…we had to reassure him over and over again that we would be.
Roman skipped out on his afternoon nap and was asleep within a minute of laying down in his pack and play…I think he slept the best and the longest of all of us. I didn’t sleep that well on towards the morning, but I loved cuddling up with Xander in his bed when he woke up coughing and wanted me to stay with him and with Jonas when he crawled into bed with Tom and I after he woke up.
We all took a quick dip in the hotel pool before we got back on the road to head to the lake house.
Road Trip to VA…
(First of all, don’t think that I’m so on the blogging ball that I would be able to get pictures uploaded and thoughts organized into coherent form enough to post this after a ten hour car ride from TN to VA with three little boys under the age of four…haha…I just back dated it for the sake of chronology).
We actually had one of of our best road trips ever to Virginia this year for the Seyfried Family Christmas at Grandma and Grandpa’s house. Thanks be to God for answering all of our prayers for a peaceable trip. I was amazed!!! Before we left, I saw a great idea on Pinterest (yes, I finally joined the ranks…I’m still holding out on Facebook, though)…Road Trip Clips…that worked WONDERFULLY for managing the big boys’ behavior in the car. They did really well reading books, drawing, playing with toys, snacking, and watching a DVD here and there while Roman napped. We stopped off at Warriors’ Path State Park on the way to let the boys run around and burn off some energy which was great fun for all of us even though it was freezing cold (we opted to picnic in the car instead of outside afterwards). We will definitely be stopping there AND using the Road Trip Clips again next year.
