Illinois

At the end of day 2, and we finally made it to our hotel in Illinois. It's soooo much nicer than the first hotel we stayed at. The time changed today when we were driving through Indiana, and we're only 1 hour behind, but it's already kicking our butts. ;) We have an indoor pool here which has been Landon's favorite part of the trip so far. It's only 7:15pm and he's already passed out for the night. Almost the first half of our trip through Kentucky was coming down the mountains and it was beautiful... but it was nice to drive on flat land again towards the end. We're trying to stop in each state and take pictures... but sometimes we forget so we're trying to squeeze random stops in just to get a shot. Enjoy! I'll post more tomorrow night!

Indiana

Kentucky

Our Trip to California

Our first day of driving went very smoothly. Landon was amazing. And the scenery was absolutely beautiful. We're in Wise, VA tonight, and it's in the mountains... very close to Tennessee. It almost seemed to go by faster than a regular drive from NC to MD... but I think that's because everything was new to us. We just pulled the camera out of our bag once we got here so there aren't many pictures. I'll make sure I keep it within my reach for the next leg of our trip. And I want to say Happy Father's Day to all the Dad's in our families!

Lan's First Day of School

Landon has started going to preschool 2 days a week. He goes to Centenary Thru-the-Week school, and he loves it. His teachers names are Mrs. Muse, and Mrs. Carpenter, and every day he tells me his favorite part of school is the park. Here are some pics from the first day.

Weekend Trip!

Ben and JP came down to visit for the weekend for Brendan's birthday this month. We had a really good time, it was so nice to get to hang out with them for a little while. Landon loved having two more guys in the house to wrestle with. Now Landon asks Brendan if he wants to "hee-ha", which really means hi-ya, and then he does a karate chop. Pretty much all of our spare time was spent with the boys pretending to be UFC fighters in the living room. We had the chance to go to the beach at Emerald Isle which was really nice. All summer Landon has been terrified of the ocean, and it only took Ben and JP about 10 minutes to get him in the water. They dug out a little pool for him right at the shore, and then he was fine. We should have tried that a while ago. Here are some pics from the weekend.

Yay! I can post again!

Hi everyone! Sorry it's been so long since the last post. I lost the memory card to the camera so I wasn't able to take pictures for a while. Luckily... I found it. It just took me a couple of months. So here are some new pics of the family. Not too much news from North Carolina... Landon is loving the pool this summer. Once he has his floaties on, he's fearless. He jumps right in where the water is over his head, and swims to Brendan, then turns around and swims right back to the wall to do it again. Hours of entertainment! Landon also had his first dentist appointment the other day. He was excellent! The dentist loved him, and his teeth are looking good. He thought all of the tools that she used were pretty neat, and he got to pick out a truck when it was all finished so he was good to go. Brendan starts a new 3 week course tomorrow, to become a martial arts instructor. Hopefully all goes well with that. I'm sure he'll be fine, he does pretty well with everything the Marine Corps throws his way. When I'm not hanging out with Landy, I'm at work at the pottery store. Same old same. So that's our quick update on the fam. I'll try to stay on top of updating this now that I have the memory card again. Thanks for checking out the blog!