Young Party of Four

Well, it's over. We are officially home. I am sitting on my own couch, using my own Wi-Fi connection, and watching my own TV after taking a shower in my own shower. And I'm happy. Yet also sort of sad. It's always sad when a trip has to end and reality has to set back in. But I'm happy to be home in our house with the kids fast asleep in their own beds with a ton of new, fun memories to dream about. I'll miss listening to them giggle as they fall asleep together though and I think they were sort of sad tonight to not get to sleep together. Kenzie even said she could sleep in Will's room tonight if he wanted her to. Sweet babies. Anyway, as far as today goes, this post should be fairly short and sweet because we spent the majority of our day driving. Today actually ended up being our earliest wake up call for the kids. I think they were both up around 6:45 or so but we were okay with that because we knew we didn't want to be too late leaving the hotel so we...

Today might have ended up being our most “relaxing” day yet. We mostly drove and did small things along the way. The good news was that the down time spent in the car let Kenzie have some “rest time” sort of similar to what she might have at home and let Will actually nap. We started our day waking up about 7:15. That is almost downright late for our kids. What was really funny was listening to them from our bed as they conspired how and when to wake us up for the day. We both were awake and could hear them having a conference about whether or not it was morning. One would say, “It is morning. Can’t you see the light coming in through the window?” or something of the sort and the other would suggest waking up Mommy and Daddy because it was daytime. We finally gave in and let them climb into bed with us for a few minutes before we started our day. Breakfast went better today than it has any day on this trip so far. Except maybe when they went with Grandma and Grandaddy on o...

And with that... today ended our time in the Keys. Well, technically tomorrow we will drive back through them and we have a few stops planned, but this was our last full day spent entirely in the Keys. We are a bit sad that our trip is coming to an end so soon. It seems like it just started. We have a couple more days though to do some more fun things so we are looking forward to those that. We started our day bright and early again. Both kids started stirring right around 7am. At about 7:15 they still were not actually awake but I rolled over to Steven and asked what time we were supposed to meet Grandma and Grandaddy at breakfast downstairs... and that was in 15 minutes so we got everyone up and got dressed. We just put on bathing suits again because we had our big beach day planned. Breakfast went better than the day before (thankfully) but neither kid ate a whole lot. As long as they got something in their bellies, we were just calling it a win. We knew that it was likely that...