Vermont Adventures

Well Ella got to go on her first "trip." Ella, Grandma (my mom) and I packed up the car and headed to Vermont this past week. Josh was working and was unable to go...so it was him and the fur babies to take care of each other while I was gone. We were out of the door at 3:30am on Wednesday morning...and what was it doing outside...why raining of course! So the typical 12 hour trip took 15 hours...now of course that included all the stops to feed Ella/change Ella/get gas for the car, etc...but with all that rain it made for a slower speed which made for a longer car ride! Ella did fairly well...in and out of sleep the whole time...would play for a bit with her little animals and then fall asleep...she did have one melt down at 4:30pm (we were about an hour and a half away from our destination) when the tears began...she was done with that car seat! But finally we arrived! Ella got to meet lots and lots of new people while we were there...and see some familiar faces...

Cousins Matt and Aaron were so excited to see Baby Ella!

Cousins Matt and Zachary were checking on Baby Ella to make sure she was doing ok.

Ella talking and smiling with her Grampy.

Well that was Ella's trip to Vermont...it was very short and time went by fast! It ended in a 17 hour trip back to Virginia. This time there wasn't any rain...but it involved the GPS system getting us messed up in directions, detours on I-88 due to flooding, and a few extra stops to calm Ella down - she was done with long rides!! As I got home at 11:00pm I said to Josh, "I can promise you that I am not doing that again!!!" We will just have to break up our trip into 2 days while she is young. Even then...it will be quite a while before I get into the car for a long ride!!

Ella did have a great night of sleep...and was quite a happy baby when she got up this morning. She played for quite a while and she is so close to rolling over!! I think it just might happen this week...she was laying down this morning having some play time and she got right up on her side...she just needed one more swing of that leg and she would have rolled over.


Well I am on laundry load #5 right now...Ella, the puppies and I are going to SML this week to stay with my mom and dad...Josh will be gone for the week as he has training out of town...so I am packing for everyone!