And finally...

The Ocean!!

Other Scenes from the Road

Essentials for any road trip:

Ipod and an Atlas...

Mapquest directions and MickeyD's Sweet Tea :)

Check out these gas prices!

Unfortunately it was closed...obviously had been for awhile!

Ashlee's view for most of the trip

Ashlee and her new pet turtle, George.

Ashlee's Countdown.

During the many hours in the car there were many funny and entertaining moments. Most of them were not recorded although we tried. Ashlee made up a song and Josh tried to record it on his phone but she confiscated both our phones and my camera. One thing I do have pics of is Ashlee's countdown of the states. Note the many faces of Ashlee...

Yes, this a different outfit. Since we had a rental car I was the only one able to drive and I couldn't quite make it all the way in one day :(

Family Pictures

The family reunion that we went to was on my mom's side of the family. My grandma and her sisters started having them in the early nineties (not sure of the exact year). We did it every year for a few years, then it was decided that we should only have them every other year. (Gets kind of expensive to do it every year) With family in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Ohio and Tennessee its nice to see everyone. I'm sure if we didn't do this, there would be some family members that I wouldn't have ever met :) There wasn't very many of us this year but we still had a good time and I enjoyed catching up with the ones that were there!

Every reunion, we take pictures of individual families, each sister's family and a group shot. Somehow I think we missed the group shot this year and some people left early so I don't have a picture of them, but here are the ones I did get.

Jeanette's Family

The Martin Family - Benny & Jeanette, June Michelle & Bill

Mae's Family

The Johnston Family - Me, Ashlee, Josh, Terry & Denise

June's Family

The Hesson Family - Greg, Natalie & Noah...June and Ralph were there, I didn't get a picture with all of them

Elaine's Family

Rich & Kathy, Kim & David

(Mike, Becky & kids left before the picnic where we took the pics)

More Vacation Pics

Breakfast at IHOP on Friday morning.

Josh and Ashlee on the beach behind our hotel. This was Josh's first time to see the ocean.

Playing Dominos in the shade

Our makeshift "trains" :)

Noah eating his pizza.

Busy, Busy, Busy

Seems like the only time I have time to update this blog is when I'm on vacation! I'm glad that hotels have wireless internet!! Last week Ashlee and I went up to church camp for the end of the week, then her, Josh and I left Tuesday night for Myrtle Beach and a family reunion. It seemed like a super long trip, but we had a few detours along the way. Josh wanted to eat at The Apple Barn in TN, so we drove to Pigeon Forge on Tuesday night, arriving about 3:30 am on Wednesday. Needless to say, we slept to late for breakfast :) On Wednesday we stopped at Harold's, a little diner in Gaffney, SC. It was featured on the Food Network show, Diners, Drive-ins and Dives...yummy food!! Finally we made it to our destination about 9:30 pm on Wednesday.


Josh wanted to go Deep Sea Fishing, so this morning I called around and found a place in NC (about 40 min. away) so off we went. Ashlee caught 10 fish and i caught 4, we didn't keep them cause we don't have anywhere to put them :) Here are a few pics from our ocean adventures!

Cyclone - the boat we rode on

Ashlee - the super fisherwoman

Obviously, a tad bit windy :)

One of Ashlee's fish

One of mine - a silver snapper

Ashlee caught two at one time.

I caved...

I thought Jax tore his bed up because he was bored so I bought a new bed and put a Kong toy with treats in it in his cage with him today. He did good while Sara and I were at work today, however we went out with Lisa tonight and when we got back he was not so good.

He wouldn't even look at me.

Guess he is just being a stinker and angry that he had to get back in his box. I didn't know the bed contained so much stuffing! Back to the hard plastic again...