"Let it begin, let it begin!"

Nothing like a quote from "Bolt" to introduce these pictures...because here begins our long journey from Texas to California where the boys watched a LOT of movies. We drove from Irving, TX to El Paso, TX and stopped for the night. It took us about 13 hours...but the boys were so excited to stay in a hotel at the end of the day that they didn't really complain that much.

We drove through a lot of this...nothingness and ugliness.


And so began the phase of the trip where Nathan wanted nothing to do with the camera...In fact he still doesn't want his picture taken which you'll see documentated in the hospital pictures of baby Maggie.


I love it...Gotta love the desert.


We spent a lot of the day stopping at rest stops so Nathan and myself could go to the bathroom. Our bladders were about on par of each other...a three year old and an eight month pregnant woman. Plus I needed to get out and move around to keep from swelling too much. The boys were just thrilled to get out of the car and enjoy a little "line walking".



When we finally got to El Paso, we stopped in at the hotel and the boys played on the bed while I took a quick rest. Then when I woke up we went and found an IHOP for dinner and went back to the hotel. We all took baths and then off to bed where all three of us were asleep by no later than 7:30.


This about sums up how Nathan and Andrew feel about motels...