Headed to Kansas

We packed up and headed to Kansas the day after I finished giving my finals to spend the week before Christmas with Josh's family. We decided to drive rather than fly, thinking either way, Eme was going to be a handful. We headed out about an hour before Eme's bedtime and she fell asleep about 8:30 on the ride up I-65. Thinking she would sleep the whole way to Kansas we settled into our usual road trip banter and radio station scanning. No sooner than we made it through St. Louis....What???? Oh Yes!!! Eme woke up...Saw a McDonalds...and wanted none other than french fries!!!!!! So we are in the middle of nowhere MO at Midnight with a 2 year old eating french fries. Do you think she went back to sleep???? NOOOOOO! She was wide eyed and bushy tailed until we got there at 5 am. Then she wanted to play! But she was the best behaved little girl ever! Driving is the way to go!

Our trip was wonderful! Eme had so much fun playing with her Mawmaw Cheryl and Grandpa Tom. She became fast friends with Cheryl's dog Destiny and much time was spent rough housing in the floor. It was exceptionally warm and Eme was able to play outside in the back yard a few days on our visit. We went shopping, visited with some of Josh's high school friends, went to dinner with the parents, of course had christmas with the family, did family pictures (yay!!!!!) and all in all just visited! Eme enjoyed playing with her Aunt Jen's old my little ponies and left a mess fit for a tornado everywhere she went. I will post all of the wonderful pictures later.

The only downfall to the trip was that Eme slept in bed with us the entire trip and only took one or two short naps while we were there. This led to a few hard weeks when we returned home.

As for the ride home...She slept the ENTIRE way!

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