Road Trip

This weekend we went to Houston for a party to welcome Baby Logan!  We rented a little condo on Lake Conroe and Grandma and Granpa stayed with us too!  We took the day off on Friday so got on the road a little before 10.  I took these photos along the way.

Hailey caught some zzz's.  She was much more comfortable since we turned her forward facing.  I think she was pretty entertained by that for the first hour or 2.  We had a bit of a stumble.  The first time we stopped to go potty, Kaitlyn was a bit scared by the autoflushing toilets at Buccee's.  For some reason she seemed to be more bothered than usual by this.  But then she and I got into a battle of wills regarding hand washing.  She was refusing and it ended up with her on the floor thrashing about. Needless to say, when we stopped at Buccee's #2, she would not enter the stall with me to even try to go.  So we were outside of Brenham when she announced that she needed to go potty.  We were lucky (or so we thought) to find a nice looking place to go.  It had a McDonald's, Quiznos and a little convenience store and they all shared the same restroom.  They had a family restroom so we went in there.  However, the main restroom was right next door and had the loudest hand dryers I have ever heard! So Kaitlyn became very distraught. She refused to go in that bathroom so I tried to bring her to the main bathroom but it was very crowded and there was a constant stream of people washing their hands.  Kaitlyn stood crying, with her hands over her ears.  Broke my heart.  I called Eric and he took over.  I went and had a little cry in the parking lot.  Then I went and asked the workers if there was another restroom because my 4 year old could not tolerate the dryers.  They offered her paper towels (thinking the issue was just that she wouldn't wash her hands).  I explained that she wouldn't even go so they told us to use the family stall - that it "wasn't that bad."  Sigh.  Long story shorter... it took us a very long time to work through the meltdown.  She screamed.  It was horrible.  We went to a Dairy Queen, calmed down and then she went potty.  Hallelujah!  I think for future road trips we will bring a portable potty (although she has never used one) and head phones (that she is not a fan of either).  It is worth a shot.

So back to the good stuff!  We stayed in this condo that was right on the lake.  Great view and I totally realized that it was the same condos we stayed in for Bork Bash #1!  The first day we went swimming in the pool and had a low key evening sitting out on the porch.

The Sip and See was on Saturday.  I saw some of Scott's friends that I met back when I just graduated college (Marsha and Ashley).  And I saw Russell's friend Lindsay that I met the first time I met Russell.  Geez... time flies!  The party was a success.

After the party we hung out at the condo.  The girls loved looking at the water, we watched a wedding from afar, and we even fed some ducks!

Grandma wanted to try and get a picture with the girls and Logan.  I kept trying to tell my mom that the first rule of photos with the kids is that you have to plaster a smile on your face the entire time while we wait to get the kids situated... fail

Great weekend but we are glad to be back home.  First day of school tomorrow.