The "Never Ending Road" as Keanna called it.
I know, I haven't posted for forever. I have been gone a lot, or busy. So we have been on a lot of road trips lately. Let's see, the first one was about 4 weeks ago. Keanna and I met Hazel and Savannah in Salina at my parents. We did a little scrapbook shopping and mom treated us to lunch at "Mom's Cafe". It was delicious. And because Savannah is so stinkin' cute, everywhere we went they would give her treats. Hazel colored my hair and then they headed back home. Keanna and I stayed over night. It was great to see Hazel and Savannah and spend time with mom, dad, Rick (my brother) and g-ma.
So our next trip was up north to a baby shower for Hazel. Well the shower was Sat. morning at 10:00. I had to work Friday night, so it was a toss up. Get up REALLY early Sat. and head up or leave late Fri. night. We decided to leave Fri. night. Ambrea came with us this trip. We didn't leave here till 10:40. We got there at 2:15. We hit rain and fog almost the whole way. It was about 3:00 by the time we got checked into the hotel and in bed. The alarm went off at 8:00 the next morning so we could all get ready to be there. The shower was very nice and Hazel (or Jaxon) received a lot of nice things. Thanks to everyone who came. We really appreciate you. Then we spent the afternoon with mom, Ann, Bobbi and Heather. Mom treated us to lunch again. After that we went and spent some time with Hazel and Savannah. Later that evening we went to dinner with them. Nate joined us for dinner. Once again, it was so nice to see them. Then we stayed with Gaylene that night. We were lazy the next day. It was snowing so I had Ray call road conditions. He said it only said snow in SL. Long story short, by the time we visited with Nate and Hazel one last time it was about 8:30 before we got on our way. Well, it took us 5 hours to get home because it was snowing the whole way. We just took it slow and easy and the girls were good and patient.
Our next trip was on the 31st. It was mom's bday and I wanted to surprise her. Long story again, which I won't bore you with the details, but we really did surprise her. She wasn't expecting us at all. We spent the day with her and then drove home late once again. I have the hardest time leaving, so I always try to stretch out my time as long as I can. We were able to see Nate and spend time with Savannah today also. She is such a sweetheart. Nate and Hazel moved into their own apt. today also. It will be nice for them. It was hard for me cause their stuff had been in storage here and this makes it a little more finalized that they are up there. It is sure hard to have them so far. But it could be worse I know.
So anyway, we have been traveling a lot and will be doing some more cause Hazel's due date is the 14th. So we are on standby for when she goes into labor. We will keep everyone posted.
Savannah and Ashton have played together a lot. Here they are playing with animals and play dough.
Finally some pictures of Jaxon. I didn't notice this one was kind of blurry until after the fact. Sorry. That seems to happen to me a lot. Yeah, he's a binky boy.
Another one of Jaxon. Sleeping peacefully.
So the day we were leaving to visit with Nate and Hazel Keanna got braces on. This is a picture with them on.
This is Keanna before braces. :)
The Sunday before Valentines day we made sugar cookies. (The tall dude is Mat a friend of Ambrea's.)
The final product. They were sooo good we had to make more while staying with Nate and Hazel.
