The End of a Great Trip

Our last day in Texas was a little more relaxing. We did a little bit of shopping. Justin and Jeramy watching the BYU/Utah game. (Justin and Mariah being BYU fans and Jeramy is a Utah fan). And we had a nice dinner at home. The kids played in the leaves and just spent some time together. We did so much on the trip we were certainly busy and the time went very fast. Of course our drive home was not as exciting as the drive there. We were debating to make the trip in 2 or 3 days. We left early Sunday morning and drove as much as we could. We made it to Albuqurque about dark. That is about halfway. We decided to push on for another hour. We were hoping to make it to Gallup, New Mexico. There was a storm coming in that night that was suppose to hit Alburqurque. We wanted to get a little past it so we didn't wake up to snowy roads in the morning. We didn't quite make it to our destination before the storm hit. All of a sudden there was snow and ice on the roads and conditions got bad fast. We found ourselves 10 minutes away from our hotel and we were stuck in traffic on the freeway. It was barely moving. Three semis had slid off the road and probably 4 or 5 cars. All in different locations. We would get past one and then there would be another one. We sat on the freeway for over an hour. The bad news was we had decided to not stop for dinner. We were planning to eat when we stopped in Gallup. So there we were, already on the road for over 10 hours, hungry and exhausted kids, stuck on the freeway. That was the low point. Devin lost it. Emily was crying because she was tired and she felt bad for Devin. Never were we so happy to make it to the hotel. Until we got to the hotel. It was the same kind we stayed in before that we really liked. Just a different location. Huge difference! Cardboard walls! After a night spent there we decided we were going to make it home that next day. We just wanted to sleep in our own beds. So we pushed on through another long day. The first part of the morning was slow. We traveled on snowy roads until we made it back into Utah. Once we were back in Utah the trip went really smoothly. We ended up getting home about 8pm. Everyone was so happy to be home. This is Devin after being in the car for hours. We had such a wonderful trip. It was a nice holiday. We were happy to spend time with Jeramy, Erin, Scout, and Eden. We miss spending time with them. We are grateful they wanted us to come and offered their home to us. Erin took this cute picture of the kids all together. I am so happy that they got along so good. That Jeramy's girls got to spend time with their cousins and that the kids have fun memories with each other. We are looking forward to when we can see them again!