We went to Alabama!

It's been five years since we braved the drive home to see my family. In other words, way too long. We had so much fun, but I find I'm not interested in typing out a recap, so here's a barely annotated photo history.

On the road!

20 hours and 1200 miles later.

Too tired to really enjoy sparklers.

The middle child.

My baby brother.

My mom with four of the boys.

Sunset on the tenneessee river.

Mid run selfie on the river.

The Pirate camped with his cousins. He was sooo dirty.

Pretty girl got her ears pierced.

The Alabama cousins. Anna wasn't interested in pictures.

The Bug loved the pools.

There were kittens.

Her hair turned to ringlets in Alabama.

Mid run on the Old Railroad bridge.

My sister-in-law with my baby.

This is the Pirate preparing to jump. Both boys did this for hours.

 

Headed home. Compare this to the first picture and notice how much more stuff went home with us!

 

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Hexagon update #19-2014

Last week we drove from South Dakota to Alabama and back (more on this later, hopefully). I had high hopes for making hexagons during the 20 hour drive, but turns out my children are very needy. Then when we were there I had other things to do- like eat all the things. Regardless, I managed to baste 115 more hexies and sew together four more flowers. This brings me to 2025 done (over 2000!!!) and 895 (or so) to go. Hopefully soon I'll have more exciting pictures to show than more pink hexies in my little blue box. Also, I asked Mike if he'd wash the windshield so my pictures were prettier. He declined to stop on the interstate to do so.

 

Linking up with Jessica at Life Under Quilts.

 

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