Thanksgiving Utah Trip: Our Drive and Around the House

The kids had no idea what was ahead of them for a drive to Utah (to be honest we didn't either!). 

We told them it would be a REALLY long drive to Grandma and Grandpa Passey's house,

but I guess they didn't believe us when Zac was saying, "are we there yet" a half

hour into the drive. We had a good few hours of hearing it every 10 minutes (until it died off to every 30 minutes). They pulled out the books around that half hour mark and Jane read them for a good four hours straight. (And then off an on throughout the drive.)

The only problem with books was she liked to throw them on the side by the door

so I couldn't reach them. Every time Lee opened the door to get her out a huge pile of 

books would fall to the ground. 

We only made stops for gas, and our last stop to get some dinner.

We were excited when we finally made it! 

Some pictures of our drive:

Stopping at Love Lock

Sleeping kids (if only it would have lasted longer!!)

A silly Zachary.

Baby with view of Nevada.

 And Jane reading away.

 

We ended up leaving out to Utah a day earlier then planned. It looked like rain and possibly snow was going to hit the Donor Pass, so we packed up early and left on Friday. It was a good call. Saturday night we went to my brother John's High School performance of Phantom of the Opera. They did an awesome job, and Lee was way impressed that a High School could do such a performance. We didn't get any pictures of the actual production or of him all dressed up (sad), but we did get the before and afters of his hair. He had been growing it out for months for the play. It was super long!

Nap times!! Sleeping kids are the best. :)

 Jane LOVED the babies at Grandma's house.

She always had one (two or three) in hand.

  

Zachary was SO HAPPY to help Grandpa rake leaves. 

He helped multiple times. He loved having his own little rake.

I don't know how much of a help he really was. :)

 

The morning we were leaving.

Grandpa came down in his flag shirt too.