MY ESSENTIAL PURPOSE

I couldn't hardly sleep last night because the kids had slept together, but they were all the way across the house from the room we slept...

I don't have any pictures. I know that I should but I got busy and so I just don't. We woke up in Springfield, Missouri, knowing that...

We slept until 9:30 and woke up in a panic (well, Garrett and I anyway) thinking we had missed breakfast, but we didn't. About 11:30 we...

During breakfast at the hotel, Ellie and I saw a commercial for Olive Garden, offering a card that gives you pasta for a year, for $300. ...

Today is G's 9th birthday and we decided to stay here another night (although the hotel rates are insane). We started the morning like...

We left Cody, WY this morning with an engine light on in my brand new Honda Pilot. I wasn't worried at first because all Hondas...

Hover over the pictures to get the caption for each one. The breakfast buffet at Buck's was top-notch. I took the kids to eat, but Will...

We left around 8am, headed to Bozeman, MT, to the Museum of the Rockies but first I wanted to stop by the Missouri River Headwaters State...

I took no pictures today :(. We stayed in Butte to get out of the car for a bit. We played in the pool, got a carwash, and found a...

Today was just a hard day of driving and not much stopping. I'm glad we planned that because we ran into a great deal of road work, and...

While we were sitting in traffic and waiting for some road construction, Will took a video out of our sunroof. The clouds and sun were...

We got up pretty early today to eat breakfast at 7am and leave the Lodge by 0730. Breakfast was delicious and I had the best pancakes...

I forgot to mention that our cabin at the Northern Rockies Lodge has three queen sized beds AND that I had just recently promised the...

Many moms are accustomed to waking up after having only slept for a few hours, BUT when your kids are 8 &10 you expect that those days...

We were served breakfast at the door of our The Country Cabins cabin at 9am. Bona dropped off a cooler filled with hot coffee, musli,...