Family Road Trip

We embarked on our first family road trip on September 23, 2011. We drove 6 hours from Clarksville, TN to Gma and Papa's house in Columbus, GA. We stayed there one night and continued our trip the next day with a 4 hour drive to Mexico Beach, FL. Neither of you girls slept very well during the road trip. Charlie begged to get out every hour and a half to two hours. Olivia yelled until you finally fell asleep...for about 20 minutes and then it started all over.

Here is Charlotte trying hard to go to sleep with "nah nah and frawg".

We even tried letting you get out of the carseat and lie down on the floor of the van on a blanket. SO against the law these days but your daddy and I remembered stories of our parents putting us in the back of a station wagon with blankets. We figured if we survived, you would too.

Olivia was a spoiled little 3 month old and got held by me so she would go to sleep. Then I would put you back in the 5 point harness carseat and hope you kept sleeping. It worked....sometimes. Somehow you always seem to have a smile when you woke up. Here's a pic on the way home with Olivia sleeping sweetly and Charlotte's foot hanging out of her carseat. Your daddy was a trooper and drove the whole way while I hung out with you girls in the back, unless you were asleep. Then I snuck up and talked with your daddy.



You girls were amazing on our first family road trip. It was stressful at times but we had fun along the way. One sweet memory... We stopped at a Chick-Fil-A on the way home and your dad and I each had a girl in our arms. We laughed at how we used to look at parents overtaken with children and laugh. We are those parents now and LOVE it!