Videos Uploaded

FYI - I finally posted the videos I noted within the previous blogs. It's probably old news now but for those of you who care, you can check them out. They are in "Camping in the Grand Canyon" and "Stuck in Flagstaff."

Swag

(It's better to click on this and watch it on Youtube, our blog layout cuts off the edge)

We're still not interested in getting a minivan anytime soon or anything...

At Last

Rocking in her own rocking chair next to Abigail.

Eating Hannah's accessories.

Asher went to school for the first time.

A little story time with Uncle Bob.

Our original plan was to go from Oklahoma City to Memphis but shortly after we started the day, I discovered that Bella now had a fever. Asher was still feeling yuck so...we made it to Memphis and just kept on driving....all night long...and arrived in Charlotte at 7:30 am on Saturday morning. Scott is a beast, driving it all himself.
So, we made it....barely. :-) We've been here four days and still haven't left the Silver's beautiful home. We're wupped. Asher is slowly recovering and having a blast with his cousins! Bella is sick and mom is sick.
If we had been making this trip in covered wagons, all of us except Scott would be dead.

Oklahoma City

Our camping adventures were over once Asher got his fever. We started using Priceline to book our hotels at the last minute - to accommodate our distance for the day. We joked that it was always a surprise - you never knew what you were going to get until you got there. This hotel was valet only. Needless to say, it was a little too fancy for us! :-)

Driving West to East

The next day the winds died down and we took off. Asher still had a fever but he was a trooper!

Asher loved the trains.

The landscape started to change but we are still in Arizona.

And now....New Mexico!

Stuck in Flagstaff

We left the Grand Canyon early to start our driving trek across the country. We had been camping for 5 days straight and were ready for our hotel reservation in Albuquerque. But an hour down the road in Flagstaff, they shut I40 down until 8:00 that night! There was no visibility due to blowing sand and three semi trailers were blown over. We considered taking an alternate route but decided (wisely) that if you can't see on I40, you can't see on a side road either (and we were right).
Then...as were hanging out in Flagstaff trying to figure out what to do, I realized that Asher had a fever. :-( So...we got a hotel in Flagstaff.

This is when we were stuck in the car while Scott was trying to get more info online at a coffee shop. It was pretty fun.

The kids were playing in the hotel (the medicine had kicked in for Asher obviously)

Grand Canyon