On the Road!

It really seems like this trip is flying by! We left New Strawn on Saturday and it's already Friday night! It's been almost a week, but it feels like such a short time. We've had a great time. We haven't reached our final destination (Alexandria, VA/Washington DC) yet, but should pull in sometime tomorrow evening. Tonight we are camped out in Columbus Ohio.

Since leaving New Strawn, Kansas we have driven 1539.8 miles. From Kansas, to Omaha, to Kearney and then on the road to DC! The boys have been AMAZING! I really mean that, and not just better than I expected, but great travelers period. Matthew has been quite the trooper, never complaining, always having fun and smiling. The only time he has gotten in "trouble" lately has been for being so excited he ends up screaming. Well I take that back... he did have one little bout of crying at dinner tonight because he didn't get a cheesey taco (his favorite at Amigos in Nebraska).... at Texas Roadhouse. He was convinced that had them, it was weird. He has watched movies, played with toys and games and has only asked once to stop to go to the bathroom other than our scheduled stops. Ian has been great too, he gets upset sometimes when he drops his cup or his blanket on the ground. But has improved tremendously since the beginning of the trip and no longer cries for it, but uses his words! Cup! Fuzzy! Please! even Thank you! He's added a few words to his vocabulary. Juicy, Unbuckle, Apple, and a bunch of others... we really should have written down all the things he's been saying.

What we've done so far:
Saturday - Drive to Omaha, Amanda's Pampered Chef Party, Drive to Kearney
Sunday - Church, Barbecue, Reid's Eagle Scout Ceremony, Play at home, Amigos
Monday - Go to the Mall, Yanney Park, Early Head Start
Tuesday - Ballocity, Yanney again, playing soccer and jumping on the trampoline
Wednesday - Children's museum, lunch at Hunans, playing at home and the park
Thursday - Packing, blowing bubbles, Drove to Iowa City
Friday - Parks, nature walks, Texas Roadhouse, and the drive to Columbus Ohio

And that's just the stuff I can remember quickly off the top of my head! We've done a lot, had a great time and also had time to help Melody with homework and Reid with scholarships. There is still a week ahead of us as well. I hope we have as good of a week as we've had so far. I'm already feeling sad about the trip ending. But hopefully we'll have a lot of fun trips ahead of us as well. I'm definitely ready for more after how well this one has gone! And if you don't believe me about how great the boys have been, ask Melody :) I think I expected at least some crying and whining... though we still have one more day of driving, so hopefully I am not speaking too soon.

Hopefully people have been following our pictures on facebook. I've posted a ton, and plan to post a lot more. Though I forget to take pictures of some things :( Hopefully Melody's pictures will fill in the blanks too. We have some fun videos as well, but have had some pretty slow connections at our hotels. Maybe sometime when we're bored... lol, yeah that hasn't happened yet!