It seems I've been working on this post forever! (Frustrating Blogger photo uploading issues to blame...)
We actually went to California first to Grandma Cox's memorial service, but I'll post these Indiana pictures first since they are finally DONE!
We had a great time with everyone in Indiana, plus had the extra fun of meeting up with Anders and his Grandma J and Dick at the Creation Museum while Anders was visiting them for a couple of weeks!
We drove straight through this time and everything went smoothly both ways.
Stopping for dinner in Kansas at a Montana Mike's:
Total road trip move - feeding the baby chocolate milk since it's the only kind we brought!
The boys were great travelers. Wade is learning the ropes.
Finally at Gpa & Gma's! Just in time to celebrate Grandpa's birthday that night with the family...
It's fascinating watching Grandpa fix the vacuum!
Fun with all of the Grandma toys...
Probably the highlight of the whole trip for Garrett and Wyatt was getting to drive these cars around the open space behind Gma & Gpa's house. Garrett informed us one day that he was going to drive one of them all the way to Kansas and start a new life, and was never coming back. That plan backfired a little when he realized the batteries to the cars would leave him stranded somewhere nearby... :)
Grandpa had a fun idea for a stunt picture...
Ahhh!
When we got home I was so bummed that I accidentally erased half of our pictures from the trip. So this one is all I have of us at the Creation Museum with Anders, Eloise, and Dick. We had such a wonderful time with them. The museum is amazing! They have added a lot since we last visited and had an interesting bug exhibit and dragon exhibit right now. The planetarium show was the favorite for all the boys (and us too, I think!). It showed how vast the universe is and then at the end zoomed in on planet Earth, saying that this God who created the whole universe loved us so much that he humbled Himself to die on a cross for our sins. It was powerful.
Family pictures!
