{"id":533,"date":"2014-06-21T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/21\/a-grand-journey"},"modified":"2014-06-21T15:26:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T15:26:00","slug":"a-grand-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2014\/06\/21\/a-grand-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"A Grand Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been meaning to take the kids to Utah for ages. \u00a0I still hadn’t met my new adopted cousins, who have been here for years. \u00a0Plus visiting the rest of my mom’a side of the family, and my brother and his wife, so we really needed to visit.<\/p>\n

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Thursday after Jack’s summer school class, we took off for the first leg of our journey: Grand Junction!<\/div>\n
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Made it! \u00a0There was about as much screaming, crying, and junk food eating as you would expect. \u00a0But they were pretty good overall. \u00a0They even made each other laugh for a good chunk of the drive (Sam appreciates Jacks fart noises in a way that I can’t).<\/div>\n
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New toys to explore and the pool:<\/div>\n
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The next afternoon we packed the car to its limits, trapped Dad in with luggage, and made the next section of our journey: Layton!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Passing Country Jam<\/div>\n
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Jack settled in at Green River:<\/div>\n
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The boys were far from thrilled to be back in the car. \u00a0Sam exercised his lungs through most of the metro area. \u00a0But we made it and were quickly surrounded by family and food. \u00a0I can’t believe how much older my cousins are. \u00a0But I had to remind myself that I was presenting my second son, so I’m getting old too \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
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Gah! \u00a0I hardly took any photos of my cousins! \u00a0Crap. \u00a0I was so tired and trying to keep an eye on the kiddos. \u00a0Maybe my mom has some she can share.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The boys had to so some final carousing, and is had to dash to Target for some forgotten essentials (ha, did I think I could \u00a0go four days without a trip to Target? Oh naive one).<\/div>\n
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New toy positioned by jack after I tucked him in:<\/p><\/div>\n

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And that brings us to this quiet, peaceful morning. \u00a0The boys are well slept and fed. \u00a0Grandma Lois is being a good sport about the mess we bring. \u00a0Jack is on his fifth turn on the big swing. \u00a0It will be a nice day.<\/div>\n
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I’ve been meaning to take the kids to Utah for ages. \u00a0I still hadn’t met my new adopted cousins, who have been here for years. \u00a0Plus visiting the rest of my mom’a side of the family, and my brother and his wife, so we really needed to visit. Thursday after Jack’s summer school class, we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}