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Lainey had her first road trip this weekend when all 7 of us piled into the truck and headed north to NC. Our families have been very anxious to meet our girl and we managed to see almost everyone during our 2-day stay. Since we did squeeze a lot into those couple of days, I’m going to break it all up into 3 seperate posts.

So, how did Lainey do on her first long (8 hours, to be exact) road trip? I’d love to say she did great, better than we expected. She slept for about an hour (we left around her nap time) and then she watched a Signing Time DVD. After that, it was on and off fussing for a lot of the trip. She kept signing “all done” to us and, when we didn’t take her out of the dreaded car seat, she fussed again. Everytime we stopped for a break or to eat, she perked up immediately and was fine. Thankfully, she slept for the last couple of hours since it was night time.

We are never short of places to stay when we head home, and this time we were welcomed by Randy’s step-sister Kim, her husband John, and their kids Grant, Katherine, Matthew, and Kendall. Our kids had a BLAST playing with their cousins, as usual. Day 1 was spent inside, with lots of family coming by to visit. Here are some pictures…

My parents came by…I love this shot of Lainey with my Dad!

She met Great Nana, my Dad’s mom. She was a little wiggly at this point, but later she hugged right up to her.

Here she is with Randy’s Memaw…she just turned 88 last week.

Here’s a shot of Lainey’s parents… ;)

That night, we ordered take-out and had a great dinner with Kim and John and Randy’s brother Tony and his wife Dee Dee. Our kids (let’s see, with all of our kids, that would number 15!) had pizza and then played while us adults ate.

Next post…Gram’s Annual Easter Egg Hunt (a little late, as planned, but well worth the wait!).