Emma's First Road Trip

Emma made her first road trip this last week to "God's country" (Minnesota) to visit and meet family and friends

We left on Wednesday late morning after feeding Emma and packing nearly the entire house. She was asleep by the time we got on I-35 and slept most of the way minus about a total of 30 minutes of crying. We are so lucky that she loves being in the car and sleeps well in her car seat. Knock on wood that continues for future trips!

We spent Wednesday night just north of the cities with the Huntley's and that was also our first experience of sleeping in the same room as Emma. Let me tell you, that girl moves and talks a lot while sleeping. I bet I got out of bed 20 times because I thought she was awake. Nope, still sleeping. I think it might have been the worst night of sleep I have gotten since she was born. 

We headed Thursday morning to Litchfield and Emma slept most of the way other than a 10 minute bout of crying during a torrential down pour in St. Cloud. We spent the rest of the day hanging out with family and getting in time with grandma and grandpa. Thursday night was the second night in a row of Emma going to bed WAY past her bedtime. I thought we had difficulty getting her to sleep at home, but boy being away is even worse. I cried Thursday night being so delirious and wondering if we traveled for too long and too early with her. Friday included a drive around Litchfield so Matt could show Emma his old stomping grounds, a visit to great grandma's, dinner with friends and time with aunt Stacy and uncle Chad.

Saturday we had an "open house" of sorts so family could stop by and meet Emma. She met lots of people and definitely had her fair share of being passed around! 

Four generations

Our time in Litchfield came to an end on Sunday and it was sad to go as we won't get to make it back there until April or May when Matt is done with men's basketball. By that time Emma will be crawling and moving around like crazy! 

We ended our trip to Minnesota with a stop to see Jamie, Emily, Avery and Levi. We always love whenever we get together with them as there are always a lot of laughs and they are such great role models as to the type of parents we hope to be for Emma. We were lucky that Emma slept all the way from Eagan to the Ames exit! Emily joked with us that maybe she would sleep the whole way and I laughed and said probably not. Looks like I was wrong!

Levi was clearly not impressed that all the attention is on the girls.