Here we all are in front of our front door in Las Vegas before we started the trek back to Texas!
And just for memory's sake, here were the four of us on the Fourth of July in 2016--our first & last picture in front of our Las Vegas front door as a family of four. Brady came the next day!
Now, back to the drive.....I wish I could have been doing what Hadley was!
We stopped in Arizona to see the world's best preserved meteor crater, which was pretty neat & a great way to break up our drive.
We also made a pitstop at Petrified Forest National Park later that same day, which we all really loved. On our way out of the park, we drove through part of Painted Desert, which was gorgeous to see. If we didn't already have plenty more hours left in the car ahead of us, it would have been fun to drive through more of that. But you couldn't have paid me to endure more time in the car than absolutely necessary at that point. ;)
We also stopped at a UFO Museum when we passed through Roswell, New Mexico. It was very weird to say the least, but we still had a good time!
Everyone did so well on the entire trip. Our kids are rockstars in hotels. Derek & I often laugh about how hard it was when we would take Shelby to a hotel as a baby. We had just one baby in a hotel & it was SO HARD, now we stroll in with three & it's a cake walk. We will never forget our trip to New Orleans for some conference Derek had during his intern year of residency when Shelby was maybe 6 months old, and she would just not sleep in the hotel no matter what we did. Sometime in the middle of the night when we had not an ounce of fight left in us, we packed up our hotel room & loaded up the car. We made the drive back to Biloxi in the dead of night and rolled into our driveway at 4am. We laugh now, but it was NOT FUNNY then.
This picture below is of all three kiddos snuggled up on our last night of hotel life watching Disney Jr. while we waited for Daddy to finish our laundry in the hotel laundry room. When we moved to SA the first time, one of the hardest parts was the fact that we were without a washer & dryer for soooo long. Since we're still traumatized by that, we wanted to make sure we made it to our new house with as much clean laundry as possible in case our HHG delivery was delayed or split up like it had been on our previous two moves.
Shelby enjoyed following along with our drive in her kids' atlas. Some of our most memorable parts of the drive are what we saw as made our way across the country. It's so amazing to watch the landscape change before your eyes. We were so sad as we left the mountains behind, and we were all in awe of the countless and seemingly endless oil rigs as we were made our way through Texas. The other thing I will not forget is all of the rain on our last day of the drive! These Vegas kids of ours don't see rain too often, ha! And poor Brady since he's so little, by the time he would see rain again he had forgotten what it was! Anyhow, it started raining HARD when we were driving and then there was a steady rain for maybe almost an hour. Brady was so confused at first pointing at all the raindrops on his window. After we kept telling him it was just rain, he proceeded to yell "Rain! Rain! Rain!" continuously. ;)
On our final leg of the drive, we pulled into our driveway around 3:30 in the afternoon {thankfully the rain had stopped!} and met our realtor to get the keys to our new home! We were so relieved to have finally arrived!! And waiting for us on the driveway was Brady's very first birthday present from his Grandma & Granddad, which proved to be so much fun riding around on in a big, empty house!
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