A blog about Kyle and Rebecca's family
Seth is getting better at eating food. It’s amazing what a difference a little bit of time will make. Jeremy on the other hand…..he seems to need more practice feeding babies. He wanted to feed Seth, but Seth tried to take the spoon away from him and baby food got all over the place. 😛
At the Albuquerque temple, Kyle pulled a HUGE moth bug out of the fountain. It looked dead and Chloe really thought it was cool, so she wanted to take it home. Somewhere between Albuquerque and Four Corners, Chloe started SCREAMING! We asked her what was wrong, but she didn’t answer and then Tyra and Chloe were both screaming. So we pulled over to find out what was wrong. Turns out that she screamed because the bug moved. So Kyle offered to just let it go in the bushes by the side of the road, but Chloe wanted to see it again. So Chloe and Lydia got out to look at it.
Chloe wouldn’t hear of leaving the bug, and now that she was aware that he could still move she still wanted to take him home. So we got back in the van and continued on our way.
Kyle had been referring to the bug as Croaky, because he was dead. Then he decided that we were going to call it Albert Croaky, because we found him in Albuquerque.
When we got home we put Albert Croaky in a pot of flowers that I had on the porch.
Chloe had to go out front to check on him every day, and most days she had to find him because he would get out of the flower pot. He did eventually end up dying. He never really did recover from being in the fountain.
We continued our drive heading northwest through New Mexico. The land was mostly flat, then there was this huge rock sticking out of the ground. We thought it looked pretty cool so we pulled over and took a picture. I had to put on my big lens to be able to get a close-up.
We got all the way to the Four Corners monument, and found out that they charge $5 a person (over a certain age, I think it was 5 years old) and they ONLY TAKE CASH! We don’t carry cash, so the lady told us to drive 5 miles back up the road from where we came from to use an ATM to get some cash. So after going back and getting cash we went back to the monument.
The clouds looked ominous, but it didn’t start raining until after we got pictures at the monument.
Jeremy was upset when we let Ethan take a picture of us in front of the Lubbock, Texas temple and that we didn’t let him take a picture of us too, so we decided to let him take a picture of us at Four Corners.
The wind picked up while Jeremy was trying to take a picture of us and it started to sprinkle as we went back to the van. We got the kids loaded up and were changing diapers when the lady from the entrance drove in to tell us they were now closed. We told her we would leave as soon as all the kids were buckled, and that’s what we did. We drove back towards where we got the cash and saw this cute little LDS church building. It was so TINY!
We had just driven away when some of the kids announced that they needed to go potty again. So we found a gas station and while Kyle was taking kids in shifts, to the bathroom, I made sandwiches for everyone for dinner. Then we hit the road again. We drove pretty much for the rest of the night.
We filled up again in Monticello, Utah, and we drove by the temple to see it in the dark, but we didn’t get out or take any pictures. Most of the kids were asleep anyway. So we just continued on our way home. We finally made it home about 3am.
Last night we stopped in Santa Rosa, New Mexico for the night. We got there very late, so we decided to just get one room, skip going to a pool and I really didn’t even want to unload anything from the van so that we could get to sleep more quickly and so that we could get out of there more quickly this morning. However, not unloading anything wasn’t very realistic. We realized that we NEEDED to unload the bottles and formula. Then we remembered that we needed diapers and wipes. Then we realized that we needed to unload some sleeping bags for the kids that weren’t going to fit on the two beds and the hide-a-bed in the hotel room. We eventually finished getting stuff from the van and got some sleep.
This morning, I did NOT want to send the kids to pick their own breakfasts. We had decided yesterday that we were going to go to the Waffle House in Albuquerque for breakfast. So Kyle went to the room in the hotel where they were serving breakfast, and got some donuts, hard boiled eggs and apples and bananas so the kids would have a snack for the road to hold them over till we got to Albuquerque.
The Waffle House was an interesting restaurant. We had to split our family into two tables, and our waitress totally forgot to add our totals together when it was time for us to pay. I think most of the kids got a waffle, and some of them got hashed browns too. When everyone had eaten their fill, we packed up the rest of the food and went to see the temple.
Then we were back on the road.
Our stop for stretching our legs today was at the Lubbock, Texas temple. The kids always love seeing the different temples whenever we go somewhere.
Seth was super happy to be out of his car seat. 🙂
Kyle and I tried to get Ethan to take a picture of us. We ended up with all kinds of crazy shots. Lots of street at the bottom and no Moroni, lots of sky at the top with Kyle and I cut off at the bottom…Apparently he needs practice. The was the best one he got.
