The LONG Drive Home

It's taken a week for me to get around to posting that we arrived safe and sound back in Texas.  We left SD early early on Monday morning and arrived home late afternoon on Tuesday.  We made great time and the kids were the image of perfection during the drive.  This was the absolute best that the kids have ever been on a road trip.  There was not one crying or fussy moment.  Even on a successful road trip with kids you can expect some fussing.  I was blown away with how well everything went... and since I made the drive back by myself it made it so much easier to not have the stress of crazy kids to deal with.  So we are back back, unpacked, and already hating the heat.  It sure didn't take long for us to miss the perfect weather back in SD.  

Four states in one day... now that's one heck of a drive.

Ryder's cars and the outside scenery kept him pretty occupied during the drive.  He drove them up and down his leg and talked on and on about I don't know what.  Kid was cracking me up.

Once we arrived in El Paso we headed to the local Denny's for some food.  These kids were starving.  At some point during the meal Savannah gave Ryder her syrup and he started dipping his chicken nuggets in it.  Oh yum.  He finished every single nugget and most the fries thanks to that syrup.

After dinner we headed back to the hotel and did a little swimming.  I was bound and determined to tire these kids out so that we would have no issues going to sleep once we got back to the room.