Heading East

On Friday, the 29th of July, we started our journey east to our new home in Virginia.

We drove for 6 hours, so it was a nice quick drive to our first stop.  We ran into some heavy rain, unfortunately, but, my mom is fearless when it comes to driving and weather.

We woke up the next morning, enjoyed (or not so much) some breakfast and began our LONG dreaded day of driving.  It was about 10 hours with stops and dinner.  Sterling said she wasn't tired, but I found her holding her eye lids open.  Too funny!

We had the largest hotel room ever.  We stayed at Home2 Suites and we loved it!  No swimming on this day because we didn't arrive until later, so they played with their barbies and ken.

Sunday morning we were ready to get to VA.  We were only 5 hours away so we were excited to be done.

Welcome to our new home

The kids stole my phone and went around the house taking a million pictures of each other.

We enjoyed crackle barrel games and the food :)

Family affair in the hot tub.  They don't wear the floaties anymore.  They were scared the first time going without them.  No fear.

The AC in our upstairs was out for the first 4 days of our arrival, but after a new system was put in, the kids slept in their rooms for the first time.  And slept great!

We went paddle boating before my mom left.  It was a lot of fun.

Mom is too good for safety first :)

You can find these three in the hot tub almost every day

We went over to Xander's school and played at the park.  They loved all the different playgrounds they had!

Sibling night in the tent

One more post and I'll be caught up.