our first road trip of summer

Last week, we took our first road trip of the summer.  It also coinsided with Kinley turning 3 weeks old, but that was a previous post.  This trip included a wedding and then a visit with Grammy Pammy.  We drove a giant triangle shape over Indiana and Illinois and the kids all travelled fairly well, even Kinley, until the very last hours in the car on our return trip.

The wedding was up by Chicago and was a cousin of Andy's.  It was a nice chance for lots of family members to meet Kinley.  I managed to get a few photos of the meet and greet.  I will say that the drive up took longer than we allowed for, and we totally missed the wedding, but instead checked into the hotel and went to the reception. The kids did okay.  They were pretty tired and were ready to go as soon as we got there.  Thank you eastern time zone.  But, we got them fed and sugared up and I think they mostly had a good time.

Kinley meets Erica.

The "C" cousins-Cale and Cassie

Kinley meets Uncle Ron,

and Grandma Jean (and Aunt Sharlyn, Uncle Bob, Laura, Zac, Aunt Maura, Grandpa Jerry, and the Clemons family)

After a long night of little sleep in the hotel (for Kella and me, mostly), we met up with everyone for breakfast the next morning.

 

Liam liked that his pancake was a big smiley face.

Then, for us, onto Grammy Pammy's.  But first, we made a stop to see Aunt Eileen and my cousin Dan since it was on the way.  I'm glad Kinley got to meet them, too, while she was little.

We got to Grammy's later than I thought we would (story of our trip), but made everyone was nice enough to wait for us to eat.  And, Kinley got to meet Uncle Eric, Aunt Bitsy, Maddie, Abbie and Jacob.

A lot of driving for the first two days of our trip.  We were glad to be done with that for a while.