Kansas road trip 2011 - part 1 of 5...

In late Sept (check date!!!!!!!!!) we took a family road trip to Goessel, Kansas, to visit my family. My aunt and uncle live out of town in a beautiful place that Uncle Ron built himself, and my nearly-91-year-old grandpa lives in town (and by town, I mean a place of about 500 people). Here are our happy campers in the car as we started out.

They both did awesome on the road trip. They slept for about two hours both ways, and we stopped to eat and play at a park to break the trip up a bit.

This trip was a little boy's dream trip in so many ways. This is Gage standing in Uncle Ron's digger. (Gavin probably still remembers the exact name of it, but he's not here right now to tell me.)

Ron and Patsy have a couple of four-wheelers, and Uncle Ron loves nothing more than to throw us on the back of one of those and give us the tour of his property while sharing his future building goals with us when we come to visit.

Gavin was like a hired hand (no, really more like Uncle Ron's right hand man) by the time we left. Here he's showing us that he knows what to do with the hitch pin (did I get that right?), and we liked to talk about that long after he attached and detached this cart to the four-wheeler. Gavin, like his mommy, loves knowing the right names for things, so terms like "hitch pin" are just a lot of fun, in general!