Road Trip

A couple hours after we celebrated Mitch's graduation we loaded in the car to start our drive to Florida. My family spent a week in Destin, Florida for a much needed relaxing vacation. We decided to drive through the night so the kids would sleep through more than half of it. That was a great choice it was great to only have to stop to fill up gas, not because little people needed to go to the bathroom. We stayed at a condo on the beach that was wonderful. Besides driving almost the entire way in the rain, once we arrived we enjoyed beautiful weather the remainder of the trip. The beach was beautiful and the water clear as could be. We played on the beach, enjoyed some good sea food, enjoyed a dolphin and sea lion show, and had good family time.

Beach Babe

2 beach lovers

Happy Lyman family

With her daddy any girl can fly

The girls enjoying the sea lion & dolphin show

Date night out together enjoying fabulous sea food bucket

family beach photo opp.

Happy shoppers

Sting rays swimming at our feet, multiple times on day

early risers resting until the rest of the condo wakes up.

the 3 monkeys

Ice cream treats to honor Aubrey turning 3 The kids did great with all the car rides. Once it was time to load up and leave Florida to head to Indiana we left by 6 am on Saturday to make it to Tennessee at a good time. Mitch had found the Jack Daniels brewery is in Tennessee and we could go and tour it on the way to Indiana. It worked out great considering it was time to let everyone stretch their legs and let all the little crazy ones run around and burn some energy. So we took a tour of the brewery and let the boys pick up some souvenirs of course. Then loaded back up to finish our drive. We finally arrived to Indiana by 7:30pm. That was definitely a long travel day and everyone was extremely tired of riding in a car.

It was great once we got there to see our cousins and Aunts and Uncles. We stayed along the river in 2 adorable old houses. The Blanton/Lyman family in one house, and my grandparents and the Fetherman's from Guam in the other house. The rest of my cousins stayed with my Aunt and Uncle that live in Indiana. It was a short but fun trip getting to spend time with everyone was wonderful, it had been 4 years since that has happened.

Chase, Megan and us

Katie and Michele enjoying their drinksMichele enjoying her drink and Megan's

Payton and Luke visiting