With or without you!!

Recently, 2 of my SIL drove out from Minnesota & South Dakota husbandless

with their several children.

Inspiring to me. Jared has been crazy busy

with a chemistry summer class & work.

We had not been able to do much for vacation this summer.

So I pulled together my courage to do things my pregnant self & 3 kids.

As a side note, I do not do well driving long distances.

I fall asleep in car rides, you can see how me driving would not work.

I try my first go as a camping trip.

It was with my parents, not completely by myself,

but I did drive 4 hours. We went up to Sly Park.

It was gorgeous.

A good friend has a small cabin in South Lake Tahoe.

5 minute walk to the beach.

Jared was able to come up for one night,

but I did the drive myself! So proud.

There is a section of road where I swear cars fly right off the

edge to burst into flame 500 feet down.

Never to be discovered. I've always had a hard time

even when others drive it. But I did it.

The kids & I went to the beach for hours by ourselves.

This is a great feat for me for many reasons:

1. I hate taking my kids to the beach.

The sand gets everywhere, too much mess.

2. The sun & the smell of sunscreen.

3. The pictures of my children drowning the moment

I turn my eyes away from them.

4. The ducks that tried to eat us the second I ran out of grahm crackers to give them.

I had to swat them with a towel to get them to go away.

But I did it. It would have been better with Jared of course.

But now I feel a renewed sense of adventure.

Maybe next summer I'll take a drive out to South Dakota.

Just me & the kids.