Road Trip to Great Grandma's House

In August we took a family road trip to visit Ethan's Great Grandma Bea (Stacy's Grandma) in Missouri. We traveled through New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and then we arrived at Grandma's! Ethan has always proved himself a good traveler as we travel back and forth to California by car every couple of months and he did very well on this trip as well. He kept himself busy coloring, watching movies and playing with his toys!

We packed our lunches each day and found a national park or other touristy spot to picnic at and get out to run around for a little while before heading out on the road. We traveled mostly on Route 66 and even found the building that Ramon's Car shop from Pixars Movie "Cars" was designed after. It was a fun roadtrip but we were glad to finally make it to our destination.

When we got to Oklahoma we stayed with my Uncle Don, Aunt Jeanette and cousins Morgan and Carter at their lake house. Ethan loved floating on the lake and jumping into the water and of course going on boat rides with Uncle Don. It was a ton of fun and great to spend a couple of days hanging out with family. Then we headed off to Grandma's house but first we were so close to 3 corners (Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma) that we tried our hardest to keep Ethan up to check out a tourist spot, he wasn't very pleased with us nor was he impressed but hey were parents and now we can say "we took you there one time", and it wasn't 10 minutes into the car ride that he got to finally take a much needed nap after 2 days of playing in the lake!

We enjoyed a week at Grandma's house just relaxing and visisting. Ethan and I had been at Grandma's the year before so Ethan felt right at home back at Grandma's and loved spending time loving on "Grama Bea" and of course getting tons of hugs and kisses. It was fun to chase after lightening bugs with Ethan in the same back yard that my sisters and I use to, and to stay up late watching girly movies with my Grandma. And of course Ethan was overjoyed to get his very first trike - thanks Grandma! It was wonderful to spend almost 2 weeks as a family traveling and visiting family.