Family Vacation: Seeing The Midgetts!!!

We had a fabulous trip to South Carolina planned for our summer time. Since Austin and Ashley were getting married on July 4th, we planned a trip around being able to attend their wedding. On June 30, 2014, Gigi took the kids for awhile so I could get the car packed and finish doing any odds and ends that needed to be done. The kids came home and we did dinner and baths. Alex finally got home around 8:30 and we were able to get on the road by about 9 pm. We headed for South Carolina! We drove to Lexington, KY that night. We took the Taurus because it has such an expansive trunk. We got a $100 set of little TV's for the car. The kids were in heaven. We were packed in tight but we had adequate room. We found a room at a somewhat dumpy hotel in Lexington. They only charged us for part of the night because we didn't get there until 4 am!!! When we woke the kids up to go into the hotel, they were both crying. Charlotte was almost hysterical. Poor baby....

 

We slept until about 8:30 am (so four hours of sleep) and then we got up, got ready and headed toward Greenville, SC. We got to Greenville at about 4 pm. We were so so so excited!!! It'd been a YEAR since we had seen these babes!!!!

 

Our four kids. How beautiful are all four of these kiddos?????

Parker and Gavin.

I have missed these two faces.

Our youngest two.

Sweet, cuddley, CHILL Parker Reed.

They all started wrestling right away. Go figure.

Thank goodness Niki has a massive master bedroom!

All four of them. Sawyer and Parker, Charlotte and Gavin.

Gavin. I have missed his energy. His spunk. His sweetness. I've just missed him.

 

Hahaha.

The four crazies....and Alex. They all played so so well together. No one would ever know that they don't play together every single day.

HAHAHA!

Those baby blues...

That look....

THAT LOOK.

That's his pooping face. HAHA

It's a good look.

Sawyer was a little bit intimidated by all of the chaos in the bathtub. But these three. They were good. They loved it.

That's a bath tub full of water and full of fun!

We had a delicious supper. Niki is an awesome cook!!! Instead of us all going downtown and fighting the kids, we stayed at Niki and Ty's house and just hung out. Tyler had to work late. He finally got home and was able to spend some time with us. He was so excited to see Charlotte and Sawyer together. Last summer we stayed with them for two nights and he loved spending time with the kids then. We were so happy he could be home with us for awhile.

 

It took forever to get the kids to sleep. New place. New excitement. Friends everywhere. But they finally went to sleep. Alex and I were exhausted. We finally went to sleep and slept AMAZING.

 

Niki and Tyler are THE BEST hosts. I mean, they gave the entire Master bed and bath in their house. They slept in shambles on the floor!!! (Or in their spare bedroom. But still.) Such an awesome evening and night. The things we could do if we lived near each other again. Oh how I miss them...