Family Holiday. Post 1 of many...

Penny got a bad case of bronchitis right before we left. 

(well like two weeks) 

and so the day before departure I decided that maybe I should take her in. 

The doctor gave her an inhaler and some anti-biotics to ward off pneumonia....

she was fine. 

The medicine was a pain. 

but the moral is.... 

traveling with a kid with bronchitis and sleeping with a baby with bronchitis.... 

leads to YOU getting bronchitis.

I am grateful it hit me the last day on the way home. 

Longest 8 hours in a car of my life!!!

With that being said. I am surrounded by mess and I really don't care.

I plan on sitting in my chair and doing nothing all day.

because I can.

Day 1

People thought we were crazy for driving but it was so easy peasy. 

I don't think we would consider flying. 

The girls did great. 

We broke the car ride up and the first stop was Helena Mt. 

Penny was THRILLED (for real) 

when we pulled into Costco.

 We bought some fruit and veggies for the road and another case of water and we were set. 

Except I am pretty sure you can't not eat at the cheapest place ever. 

So we did that too.

 (FYI their pizza is ridiculous.... in fact all other Costco's should go there just to take notes)

I also made car books.

It had state maps, state birds, flowers, and other fun info about each place we were stopping.

Ellie loved it. So did dusty. Penny liked drawing on herself.

Next stop- Idaho falls

I sorta expected the temple to be small and not as grand as some of the other temples we were going to see 

but I was so very wrong.

It was so pretty.

It is right across from a very pretty park

with the falls.

A very nice back drop.

Everyone was glad to get out and stretch.

The girls took advantage of the park with Dusty while I made some sandwiches.

We were trying to get to Salt Lake that night and we had two more temples we wanted to see but we only managed to make it to the Brigham City Temple.

It was so so cold so it was a quick stop then back into the car.

This temple is where an old school was.

The history of it was kind of interesting and 

directly across the street in the 

Box Elder tabernacle.

and even if it was FREEZING the girls still thought the green grass was a novelty and took whatever opportunity they had to roll in it!