Friday, December 27, 2013
It was smack dab in the middle of Christmas day when the old man and I decided to do something totally crazy. We decided to load the truck up and drive halfway across the country. So we stopped all Christmas festivities and began packing. This is how the whole thing started.....
Steve's brother Mike and his family were in St. Louis visiting from Kentucky. They tried to talk us into coming for Christmas. We had just been to St. Louis for Spring Break and had decided we much prefer traveling there in the Spring as opposed to the Winter. We were content to stay all warm and snuggly in our house and celebrate Christmas. And then the Facebook posts started. Everyone was having so much fun together. And then on Christmas Eve Steve's sister Lisa posted that they were playing a game and someone said the word "marriage" and about 3 or 4 people said at the same time, "mawwige. mawwige is wat bwings us togewer today." And I was all like, "I-i-if I were there, I would have said mawwidge too!" And then the next day my niece posted that my other niece licked her thumb and rubbed it on the others forehead and did the Lion King thing. And then she told her it was ok to lick her forehead because they were family. And I was like, "But I'm family too!" So I went to Steve and asked what he thought about getting in the car right then and driving to St. Louis. It didn't take us long to decide. About 15 hours after we made that decision we were in the truck and on the road.
We stopped for a photo op at the Kansas City Temple.
Please keep in mind we had been in the truck for 2 days.
We arrived at Steve (Redneck) and Heather's house Friday afternoon. We went from freezing weather in Utah to absolutely gorgeous weather in Missouri. We were tired of sitting so we decided to go for a walk. This is literally in Steve and Heather's backyard.
If you give a Redneck a rock, you can keep him busy all day.
The river below where we were walking was frozen. We spent a very LONG time throwing rocks at it trying to break the ice. I'm pretty sure when it thaws out the water level will be up several feet due to the massive amount of rocks we deposited in it.
We found a rock with some fossils in it. We were informed the type of fossil we were looking at was the official Missouri state fossil.
Addy made it her mission to arm everyone with a walking stick.
I like how this picture shows Addy in mid air. What was she jumping down for?
She found herself a hobbit hovel.
That night Grandpa (who was unaware of our presence in Missouri) came over for dinner and games. I showed him the new Family Search website and we talked some Family History. Then Heather and I gave him a Facebook tutorial.
Mike and his family had been gone all day. They arrived home and the kids were surprised to see us there!
Reagan gave the girls the scarves she made them for Christmas. But somehow they ended up on the boys.
Daddy/Daughter selfies
