on the road again...

We've been logging miles. This past week we put exactly 1000 miles on my mom's van as we toured a triangle of Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois. We first headed to Marshfield, Wisconsin for the Rhodes family reunion. It was great fun and I (and the kids) got to meet some of Jason's other first cousins we had never met before! We did lots of swimming, eating good food, chatting, playing sports (not so much me as Jason and the other dads and kids), and just being together. It was wonderful.

From there, we headed down to Kalona, Iowa to spend three days with Mo, Dwight and the kiddos (jason's oldest sis and fam). SO FUN! They have a gorgeous new home which we fit right into. We spent some time at the Kalona pool, the Iowa City mall, and Jason worked the IMS basketball camp.

Traveling with 2 kiddos was really quite a blessing compared to what it could have been. They were amazing. Dylan was mostly occupied with music, snacks and books. Occasionally I'd try to pull out a new activity or puzzle or something, and it was quickly boring to her. Next time I'm just going to bring 100 books along (for the record, I did bring about 30 and it was not enough). Noah was awesome and slept record amounts of time, and then he would wake up and we wouldn't even know it - he'd be looking around, hanging out and just chill. He did eventually get sick of the car on each trip - crying on and off the last hour or so of each trip. But considering we were in the car a total of about 20 hours all 3 legs, it was pretty impressive.

Now, we're at home for a few days - Matt, Emily and Olivia Rittenhouse were just visiting for awhile, and Mo and the kids come to Chicagoland on Monday. We'll be out in the burbs hangin with them most of the week.

It's getting sort of depressing for me that it's august. Jason is of course home and it's AMAZING, but I'm starting to get all sad about him going back to school and that our uber-family time is drawing to a slow close. :( I need to take some deep breaths and realize we still have some time.