Seth and I had planned to go together to Utah with the kids. However, he got his current job the day we were supposed to leave, literally just a few hours before, thus that plan needed to be altered. My sister Cass was going to come anyway so we decided to wait a day and then head out. My original plan was to drive overnight so that the kids would sleep, that backfired completely. We awoke at 2am to make the first leg of the trip to Albuquerque where we would rest in the day and then drive again at night up to Utah. In my dreams I figured we would just lift Abby out of bed and she would go right back to sleep in the car. WRONG! She was bright eyed and bushy tailed, for the first hour she just sat there and was quiet and the beast unveiled herself. She probably screamed, hit, bit,kicked etc... for 3 hours, fell asleep for one and then woke up again until we got to Albuquerque. Where she didn't even sleep in the day time. We opted to leave about 8pm thinking " She is exhausted she will sleep now". WRONG!! She was ready to give another battle. We fought long hours and she finally fell asleep for maybe 45 minutes and engaged battle again. Please know I do love Abby with all my heart, but I truly understood with my lack of sleep and her constant ear splitting scream how someone could leave their child on the side of the road. That said about 2am we gave up, she won the battle but not the war, we stopped and got a motel room and 5 minutes after her head hit the pillow she was out. Figures. Brigham of course as always was a champ and didn't complain much. Needless to say we did not drive at night on the way home.
These are the pictures from our visit with our family in Albuquerque, I somehow neglected to take pictures of everyone there. Sorry to those I left out. We had a nice visit and good company, they are all so funny and I loved spending time with them. My Aunt Betty lives in a house that is directly across the street from a house we used to live in with my grandma. I have very fond memories there and lots off good times were had. So driving up the street it was funny to remember all the events that happened there. However it was sad because the house was in horrible condition, really it should be condemned. It was hard to see a place that once held so much joy and was great in my memories become such an atrocity. Now its hard to picture it the way I remember, sad isn't it.
My great Aunt Gerdy and Briggs
My great Uncle Don and Abby
My great Aunt Betty and Briggs
