On the way to North Carolina

I think I've figured out how to post pictures.  I don't know how to shrink the size down so if you click on the picture, it might be insanely huge on the screen.  Sorry about that.  The following are a few from the drive here.

I thought this was cool.  This was taken in Price Canyon, Utah.

The wind was blowing so hard I just had to take a picture of the kids having fun.  Shannon is in her jammies because shortly after we got on the road after staying with some family in Kaysville, she threw up all over her regular clothes.  After that she was fine.

Not a pretty picture of me, I was talking on the phone with Doug at the time but my hair was getting whipped all over the place.  I don't think I've ever stood in wind that strong.

The wind was blowing so hard that I watched it rip two bikes and a cartop carrier right off the car in front of us.  Thank goodness no one was driving right next to him and I was far enough behind we didn't get hit.  I felt terrible for the family.  I would have stopped to help if I didn't have a car full of kids.  I did not like driving in that.

I wish I had gotten a better picture of this.  There is water just to the right and the road going west seemed like it was almost above us, like the double decker bridges.  This was taken before we got into Vail, Colorado.  It was beautiful driving this.

A view coming into Denver.  I love it, mountains then flat.

We woke up to snow in Denver and this was most of the drive heading towards Kansas.  It cleared up just before we got to the border.  I lost count at 7 cars/semis that had flipped or jackknifed.  (We left Kaysville with it snowing but got out of it just before Price Canyon.  I think the storm followed us to Denver.)

Someone once told me, "There's a pretty girl behind every tree in Kansas."  That was a boring drive.

This was in Kentucky.  I love how the trees were bare but every now and then there would be these patches of purple.

The kids did really great with the drive, I was pleasantly surprised.  I was able to take a young woman from church with me since Doug needed to stay home in case he was sent out to drive for work.  Turns out he could have gone with me.  Oh well.  I was able to get to know Rachael better and after she gets married in August, another reason why we need to be back then, Shannon is going to be her flower girl, her and her new husband plan on coming out here to nanny for my sister.

I'll get some more blogging done next week.

Just a quicky

Wow, I didn't realize it's been a month since I last posted and so much has happened.

It's been non-stop 'go' since we left home for N.C.  I have pictures but haven't figured out yet how to download them to the computer (they're MAC's, I'm a PC).  We've all been doing lots of adjusting and it's been a roller coaster but I'm so glad we're here.

The weather has been crazy so far, we've had cold windy days and quite a few nice ones, like today, it was 80.  We've also had a few thunderstorms.  These were definitely not like the ones we get back home.  My sister tells me to just wait, we'll get some real doozey ones this summer.  Yay!

I'm off to bed now, the mornings seem to come too quickly.  I'm so exhausted in the evenings I'm struggling to keep my eyes open at 9pm.  That's sad.