GART Day 2

Great American Road Trip Day 2: Friday, July 3, 2009
States Traveled: Wyoming, South Dakota
National Monument: Mt. Rushmore

We left the Reynolds with their great conversation and wonderful food and drove through the Southeast part of Wyoming, we crossed into South Dakota and made it to Mt. Rushmore.

Clark, Ellen and the kids - next stop the world's second largest ball of twine!
To say he is excited is a complete understatement!

Super cuties!

Scott Nelson - this pic is for you!

We had an awesome seat for the fireworks...

however, the cloud cover made the show impossible to see.

GART Day 1

The Great American Road Trip Day 1: Thursday, July 2nd
States Traveled: Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming

We invaded the Turners late Wednesday evening and that gave us a head start on Thursday's travel. We traveled in four states on this day and arrived at the home of the Reynolds'. The kids had a blast playing with Shelby and Ross. Tommy and I enjoyed visiting with Cassie and Larry. And Cassie and I stayed up way too early in the morning dicussing everything from parenting to pedicures to politics! Thanks Reynolds - you are a super duper schmooper family! And guess what? Pictures....


That is one big baby bottle!


Shelby feeds her calf...

...Sheridan helps from afar.

Shelby, 7 and Sheridan, 8

Ross, 5 and Brenner, 6

Boys will be boys...

The Great American Road Trip Film Class

I failed to mention that prior to our GART (Great American Road Trip), our darling dad brought home an educational film to be viewed by the peeps prior to visiting South Dakota. The film was North by Northwest. Now, it is a classic, however, we are quite strict on media choices around the homestead and I thought he had lost his mind bringing home an Alfred Hitchcock flick. It was not bad, the kids got to catch a glimpse of Mt. Rushmore, they delighted in calling Tommy "Kaplan" (Carey Grant character in the movie) and we had to fast forward through only a few parts. Not that I would recommend it for everyone, but it was daddy's trip research!

The Great American Road Trip (Preparation)

Ellen Grizwald here catching up on the week's past event. We are once again taking a cross country summer trip. It all started with the purchase of a van several years ago and we have logged some major miles on this baby! In 2007 we drove to San Diego from Dalhart and stopped at the Grand Canyon. Last summer we drove to Palm Coast, Florida and got to stay with the Wright Brothers. This year we headed up the middle of the country to Big Sky, MT. I'm hoping to download some pictures while we are still on vacation. I'll check back in a day or two with a day by day run down of our trip. We have had a blast...uh wait, "Clark, you are driving 80 miles an hour!". (hahahaha) Ellen out.

My summer through a chain link fence (2nd post)

Tball season is here! We've batted, scored and sweated and the season is yet half over! I love mom's pics through the fence to get a glimpse of their special player. B is playing on the Rockies team in the Christian Athletics league (lcaa), no pics of our sugar plum on this post, she'll get top billing next time around!

Tamaya, Tamaya, I love ya' Tamaya...you're only a state away!

We stayed at the lovely Tamaya resort in Albuquerque last week...and a couple of pictures too!

Cool waterslide!

LOVE IS WHAT MAKES THAT TOWN GO AROUND!

WE HAD A GREAT VISIT TO D THIS PAST WEEK. WE SAW SO MANY FRIENDS, IT WORKED OUT GREAT THAT WE WERE ABLE TO SEE AS MANY PEOPLE AS WE DID. THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR HUGS AND KIND WORDS AND THE MOMS WHO BROUGHT THEIR KIDS AND BRAVED THE PARK ANDLONG LUNCH LINES IN TOWN AFTER VBS ON THURSDAY. WE HAD A SUPER TIME GETTING TO SEE SO MANY PEOPLE, WISHING WE COULD HAVE SEEN JUST A FEW MORE. THAT LITTLE TOWN AND ESPECIALLY OUR CHURCH HAVE SUCH AN AMAZING CAPACITY TO LOVE PEOPLE. THAT IS THE EMOTION THAT I FELT THE MOST WAS LOVE, GENUINE AND GRACIOUS. THANKS DALHART, YOU DEFINITELY HAVE HEART IN THE RIGHT PLACE! THEY SAY LOVE MAKES THE WORLD GO AROUND, I DON'T SEE THAT TO MUCH IN TODAY'S ENVIRONMENT BUT I CAN FOR SURE SAY THAT ABOUT OUR LITTLE TOWN!