Road Trip

Well after three days of traveling across 3 states this family of three finally made it to Texas. Thursday the movers came and packed up all of our things and loaded them into a moving truck. My mother-in-law Linda came out a few days earlier to help me get the house ready to go. She was an angel for doing half the things she did. With only being 2 weeks out from a major surgery, I was pretty much no help what so ever. Our GREAT friends Dan and Casi stopped by the house around 4:30 p.m. to meet Lyla and say goodbye and were so good to follow us down to the airport since I couldn't drive. We hit the road around 5:30 with a baby who was crying and had spit up all over her sleeper. I was not looking forward to this trip if this was what was it was going to be like. However, Lyla was a good little girl and fell asleep until her next feeding. This trip made me master the art of nursing in a back seat of a Chevy Avalanche and feel no shame for my bare boob hanging out for people to see who drove by. Our first night we made it to Tucson, AZ where we pulled off at a hotel and got some rest...haha yeah right but we can call it that for the sake of the story. The next morning we woke up, fed the baby, and took off for what was to be the long day. Our goal was to stop by Scott's grandparents at some point in El Paso and get a hotel in Odessa, TX. Lyla again was an angel and only woke when every few hours to eat. Otherwise she slept the entire day. I guess we can attribute this to her being a newborn still. We made it to Scott's grandparents around 5 and I fed Lyla and gave her some play time. They were great to have dinner for us and after a good hour of catching up, we hit the road again. The next stint of our drive was probably the most challenging. Lyla was due to eat, we were out in the middle of nowhere and we had no place to pull off. She hadn't woken up yet so I didn't wake her...BIG MISTAKE! She went about 5 hours between her last feeding so when she woke up she was LIVID! Of course we were in the middle of what looked to be a town where they filmed Texas Chainsaw Massacre. We finally found a spot to park and at this point there was no calming down this child. She ate horribly because she was so upset and wouldn't fall back asleep after she ate. Needless to say once we got to Odessa (yes, the home of the Permian Panthers) without an unhappy baby and two tired parents. That night Lyla slept bad because her whole schedule was off. Luckily we were able to sleep in the next day and relax a little before we hit the road. Our last day of travel had finally arrived. We hit the road around 11 and made it to Texas around 4:30 p.m. I have never been happier to pull into Texas. After three long days of travel we had made it. My mother-in-law Linda was such an angel. She road tripped with us all by herself and never complained once. She had to ride the entire way by herself and was so good to help us out with getting both cars to Texas. Thank you Linda...we owe you BIG TIME!


This week we are staying at the Gaylord Texan while the movers get here with our stuff. Scott leased an apartment for the summer in Grapevine and we will move in sometime next week. The Cowboys hooked us up with an amazing room at this amazing hotel. Thank God for that. Thank you everyone for all of your prayers during this trip. The Lord definitely had his arms wrapped around us protecting us throughout this whole ordeal.