Family vacation

In June, we took a road trip up to Missouri. Our first time to drive so far with all the boys. We broke up the trip and they did great. Our first stop was in Oklahoma city where we stayed with our friends Ryan and Dara Steward. Unfortunately this is another experience that I neglected to take pictures of. Thankfully Dara is much better at this than I am. If you want to look at pictures of our time with the Stewards, check out her blog. It was a great time catching up with them. Very restful and relaxing.

After a few days with the Stewards we drove to Pattonsburg, MO, to stay with Jeremiah and Kenan Bradford. I took a few more pics of our time there, but again, Kenan did a better job. You can look at her blog for more pictures. We were hoping to escape the heat and spend some time in a cooler area, but of course we would visit the weekend that happened to be the hottest of the whole summer. This was Mark's first taste of small town America. It was good times in the little farming community of Pattonsburg. We cooked out a lot and made our own fun. We really enjoyed getting to visit with the Bradfords.

We were also able hang out with the Comptons, see Mark's roommate from college, Cody Busby, and have dinner with Casey and Sarah Shutt. It was great getting to see so many friends.

Nathanael and Emsleigh (Kenan's little girl) having tummy time together.
"The Lone Ranger" or "The Lone Stranger" as Hudson called himself. He was a little confused by a Veggie Tales video, "Moe and the Big Exit."

Kenan took us to some friends' house who live on a farm. The boys had a blast on all the farm equipment. Hudson is pretending to drive "Frank the combine." (Frank is from the movie "Cars.")