Kentucky

We took a trip to Kentucky to visit Brad's grandparents and extended family before moving back to Texas. The drive from New Jersey to Kentucky is much shorter than the drive from Texas to Kentucky, so we decided to take advantage of that. The girls did surprisingly well on the car ride there...a little worse on the car ride back home, but still overall, they did great!

Crossing our first state line...only about 10 minutes from home!

In to West Virginia...

...and then Ohio. Little did we know at this point that we'd be hitting 5 mph traffic for about an hour and a half in Ohio. As miserable as it was, the girls hung in there.

We made it!

Natalie wasted no time getting Grandmother to read her a story.

And shucked corn with Granddad.

Here are the girls playing Ants in the Pants with Grandpa.

And coloring pretty pictures on his sidewalk for him.

Four generations!

Lots of little girl cousins working in the garden...Natalie had a blast with so many little kids around (on both sides of the family, but I didn't have my camera with me for one of our other visits).

Sisters!

Swinging with Grandpa.

Julia's sleep schedule was a little thrown off on our trip. We were keeping her up later than usual in the evenings and sometimes she woke up too early from her naps. It would have been better for her to sleep in her bed the entire time, but it sure was fun to have her fall back asleep on us!

A park close to Grandmother and Granddad's house has a big fort, which Natalie loved.

My pretty big girl...

...and my pretty little girl, always handing things to people.

On the last day, we drove in to Cincinnati to visit the museum complex. The girls loved the children's museum and Natalie enjoyed the science museum. Here Julia is trying to catch the fish in the tank.