This one's for my dad

We are home!!

We finally made it in about 1:30am & I am so glad we are here!!! I'm Not going to do a full post but I just wanted to give you an idea of how crazy our vacations are! Jeff took the kids on a walk in the hotel one day so I could get some stuff done in the room and this is what they came at me with when I was finished!

Packin' up!!

Michael's racing is over! I am so glad to be heading home! He did awesome! He got second out of 40 cars in one class and 4th out of thirty in another! I am so proud of him! We really haven't ever put him in a race at this level so to see him do so well was awesome! Hope you all enjoyed the vacation, others, sorry if it bored you! We will be back on Tue. in time to get everything laundered up and head out to camp on Sat.!! So hope to see some of you there!

Final Day!!

Tomorrow will be our last day here! I am so excited! What is even better is that my mother-in-law has offered to take the baby with her on her flight home to Tulsa so I don't have to drag her on our 26 hour drive home! Pretty awesome! Anyway, Michael raced again today and he went through to the next race so tomorrow is the big day! He will race in two of the biggest races in the country ! I am very nervous! I never would have expected him to do this well and I am so proud of him!! I can almost promise that Jeff will not sleep a wink tonight!!
Just wanted to give an update on how he did! Try to update soon!! (by the way, he will be racing at 10 in the morning, 12 noon Oklahoma time so say a prayer for him and his safety! Thanks!!)

Ready to be home!!!

Today I am up early and really ready to be home! However we are here for another few days so I'm just going to have to suck it up! We are in Sacramento, CA and Michael qualified for his races yesterday. I know that all of this is probably a bit confusing to the non-racer but he did really well! We were so excited! He will race today Frid and Sat. It has been a long week. For any of you who have ever been away from home with a 9 month old (or any baby for that matter) for any period of time you know how I feel! She just does not sleep well in a pack-n-play. The older kids are having a blast though and are really enjoying having a pool right out the back door! So I will try to update soon on how he does but I doubt I get to it before we get home. Also... I think that either yesterday or today is Mari-kate Bloom's b-day and I just wanted to wish her a Happy Birthday! I remember being pretty ready to have Michael this time 9 years ago! Michael turns 9 on Sat so also a Happy Birthday to my growing boy!

On the Road!

Hey everybody! Today is going to be another one of those posts with no pictures! I have no idea how to do all that on a hotel computer! We are now in Lake Havasu City, Az. We drove 10 hours on Monday and arrived here about 7:30 Monday evening. There is a 2 hour time change here so we gained a few hours. Was nice but the trip home won't be so good! The kids are loving the lake! There are sandy beaches and the water is crystal clear! The lake is also set in the mountains so that makes it all the more beautiful! We will stay her until tomorrow morning (Thurs.) then we are heading towards Sacramento. That is about another 11 hours so we might break that up into a couple days. Michael raced in Albuquerque last weekend and he did awesome! He set fast time in both of his cars and got first in one of the races and second in the other. If you go to quartermidgetslive.com and click on Jr Honda underneath the Route 66 Summer Nationals heading. (i think) it should pull up the winning picture of the whole fam and his car. Sorry I don't know how to do the whole link thing! Let me know whether you can find it on there or not!
I am sure that you have heard that my Grandma Helen passed away a few days ago so please be in prayer for my family. I am especially having a hard time with it because I am not going to be able to be back for the funeral. Thanks ahead of time for the prayers and I will try to update soon!

Miss Isabell/ vacation description

Hello everybody! It has been a while since I have posted any pictures of Miss Izzy so I figured I would post a few! We are leaving for vacation tomorrow night, driving all night, because the first leg of our trip is 9 and a half hours and we do not think we can do this, and be sane when we arrive, if we do it during the day! Michael is racing in Albuquerque, New Mexico on the 10-13 so we will be there until the 14th. Then we are driving to Lake Havasu City, Arizona to spend a few days on their beautiful lake! From there we are headed to Sacramento, California where Michael is in the biggest race of the year from July 19-26. Jeff does not have to be home until Tue. the 29th for work so we will have three days to make the 25 and a half hour trip home. We are very excited to be gone fore 3 weeks but I am very sure that I will start missing my bed about half way through the trip! Anyway, enough is enough! Hopefully I will have some good pictures to post when we return! Until then...