And then, it really happened.

I still kind of can't believe it, but it did. The house we loved was emptied of all our belongings. (except for the kid below, we emptied her a few minutes later.) And we began our journey.

You'd never know a huge red door was there. :)
I sure am glad my best buddy went with me. He makes everything fun. Don't be intimidated by our sweet suburban setup, below. The Griswolds called. They want to hang out with us.
We started off well. Everyone was excited to go.
Had some nice stops along the way.
Beautiful sunsets...(don't those arches look cool? :))
But then we started having a fair amount of this.
So we were glad to get here, and be greeted by the cutest girls around.
:)
Funny story: We got the girls in bed around 9 and continued to unpack the car and get settled. At around 11 Mark was missing something and wondered if it had mistakenly been put in the girls' room. We turned the corner to go sneak in and look and saw the light on in their room. (2 hours after they had been put to bed and not napped for TWO days in the car.) This was what was in their beds. The absence of children.
And this is what we found. Ava was completely dressed and Kaiya had apparently decided to go with a costume change when we found her. Not pictured: the dirty diaper Kaiya had ditched at her own will and the skid marks all over the carpet where she had been sitting to put on her pants. I only took one picture because obviously we were trying to pretend like we were really upset.

Of course in reality I've never been more amused yet in my parenting career. I love that my girls have fun together-and I guess there's just a little learning curve when sharing a room for the first time. A wonderful memory of our first night in a new place. :)