Destination: Horseshoe Bend, Page, AZ 3 hours, 160 miles) Our day started at 5am (thanks Beckett) and no hot water for Jaclyn’s shower. I guess living off the grid isn’t really THAT cool. The night before I had run to the corner store to grab some beer, cereal and milk (aka the essentials). As I …
Destination: Sedona, The Grand Canyon and Williams, AZ (5.5 hours, ~300 miles) We started the day by saying goodbye to Auntie Marlene. We had a great time visiting her in Gilbert and she truly was a life saver! The majority of the morning was spent packing and making sure we didn’t leave anything behind. While …
Our day started early when Beckett woke up at 12:30am seemingly for the day. We finally managed to get him back down around 2:30am. Sorry Marlene! 😬 Today is our last day at Auntie Marlene’s and we will head out to the Grand Canyon tomorrow morning. I had to work today (my penultimate work day …
Jaclyn got up early with Beckett and took him on a nice walk of the neighborhood and to a park. The rest of our days started with Brooke and Marlene making everyone some waffles. After breakfast Marlene had a few activities planned for Brooke. First, while it was still shady the created a chalk mural …
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We ended up having a very long night on Friday night. Let’s just say that toddlers will be toddlers. So, we’ve decided to dial things back a bit and take it easy during our stay at aunties. We’ve been so grateful that auntie is super flexible and we’re all just happy being around each other …
Destination: Auntie Marlene’s house in Gilbert, AZ (7.5 hours, 435 miles) We started the day by saying goodbye to the Sullivan family. They were such great hosts and the kids played together so well. It was hard to say goodbye but we were all excited to see Auntie Marlene for our next stop! We started …
Good news! After the kids stayed up from 3am-8pm with ~15 mins of napping the previous day they finally crashed and slept in! And by slept in I mean 5 and 6am. But we will take it! Today was a pretty low key day. Brandon and Jay had to work so it was Christina and …
After our kids being awake for ~19 hours during their day of travel we mentally prepared for a 5am worst case wake up but optimistically thought that maybe it could even be 6 or 7. Well…we were wrong. Brooke was up for the day around 2:30/3am and Beckett was up for the day at 3:30am. …
Today was the day for the big rendezvous at the Albuquerque airport (ahem “sunport”)…whatever that means…My dad and I had roughly 2.5 hours of driving and Jaclyn, Brooke and Beckett had about 6 hours of flights. Jaclyn appreciated that Al came to our house at 4:15am to drop her and the kids off at the …
Hey! We officially made it to New Mexico today (Tucumcari to be exact). We left Springfield, MO and traversed pretty much the entire width of Oklahoma, then clipped the very top of Texas and crossed into New Mexico. It was smooth again with no issues. We were stunned by the insane number of wind turbines …