71 Pictures

An indication of how long we've been on the road... Willie's hat line.
Olivia being her monkey self
Shootin' some hoops at the Germ World in McDonalds 
Some of the Treeless world we've been driving through.

Today has been our hardest day thus far... and an indication of that is that I only took 71 pictures today!!  Our morning started with a Fireman at the hotel door asking us to evacuate.  So thankfully I was out of the shower already which was early for me... woke up the sleepyheads and said we had to get out now.   So we threw everything into our bags and got the 'not so excited to be awake' kids into hoodies because it was cold this morning... only to have them say it was a false alarm.  So we then started our morning again - just a little slower.  

The kids went crazy in the vehicle today... 10 hours from Great Falls to Casper, Wyoming.  Wow!!!  I was really stressed out because Olivia is sick and I know she's cutting more molars but yikes... she needs to stop fussing or I'm going to have very little sanity to work with by the time we arrive in Newton Texas!!  

But God is so wonderful and he has given us a wonderful hotel with great staff to park our weary bodies for the night and just give us some rest and time to really reflect on how great He is!!  The scenery we have seen has been amazing (except for the lack of vegetation!!!  I'm really needing to hug a tree!!  Willie might be thinking he would like to cut one down but either way we would love to see one!)  We've seen at least 83 thousand cows from Magrath Alberta to Wyoming and the radio stations are Country or Christian so that's kind fun!  Except that Samuel asked for some Hip Hop today... but he had to settle for Tim MaGraw! 

The kids are now sleeping peacefully and as I look at their beautiful faces and give them their last goodnight kisses I wonder how I could have been so frustrated a few hours ago on the road!