Coming Home

So I promise I am almost caught up now. Here is the events of our car ride back to Portland.

First here are a few pictures of New Year's at my parents place!

Bens and Kimber chillin' with my Grandpa.

My Grandpa lives just behind my parents so he came over and got to visit with all of us and joined us for our Tacky Party!

We all dressed up tacky (Daniel and I had taken off most of our outfits by this point) and had a white elephant gift exchange.

We then made our way upstairs for dinner of hot dogs and chocolate milk and anything else that was laying around the house. Our beautiful table cloth was made of newspaper and duct tape.

Here is Bens on the way home. I think he was a little bored so he got creative with what to do. He couldn't even see Kimber on the way home as she was behind me and there was a box in between them. Our van was a little full!

So a few years ago when one of my cousins was a little older than Bens my brother taught him to say 'Don't you ever die!' I tried to teach Bens but as usual he was more interested in seeing himself on the camera. You can also see a big ol' wad of gum in his mouth. We were in a gas station doing a potty break and Bens saw a gum ball machine, one of the ones where you watch the gum ball twirl down to the opening at the bottom. He wouldn't move from it so I bought him his first gum ball. Luckily it was white! I didn't think about the fact that it was huge and would make a mess! He had fun and I had my eyes glued on him until I got the gum away from him so he wouldn't choke on it or fall asleep with it in his mouth!

We have been blessed with kids that travel well. They really have now choice though. We have always lived far away from family so going to visit means going on long car rides!