We had a very busy weekend. We decided to attend my cousin Ashlee's wedding this weekend in French Camp, CA. We left on Thursday at about 1:00 in the afternoon. My parents, Giovanni, and Maddie left an hour before us thinking we would catch up with them. As we were leaving, our tv in the car quit working. Great timing! We had a 12 hour car trip ahead of us and no tv to entertain the kids. We stopped at Wal-Mart in Tooele to get some that strap on the headrests but, just our luck, they didn't have that kind. My parents waited for us in Winnemucca and by the time we caught up with them, we had already passed 25 police cars. I guess we must have been on the watch list. Regardless to say, there was no speeding on the way. We finally made it to Sacramento, CA where we were staying with my grandparents at around 1:00 am.
On Friday, Ryan got to run around town looking for a new tv for the car while the kids and I got to visit with my grandparents, aunt, and cousins. The kids enjoyed looking at all the horses at my grandparents house and even got to see miniature horses. I think we went out to visit them 5 or 6 times.
On Saturday, we got ready and went to Modesto, CA to visit my aunt, uncle, cousins, and their families before the wedding. It was great just to sit and visit with them and we thoroughly enjoyed it. The wedding was at 4:30 in French Camp, CA about 30 minutes from Modesto. It was a nice wedding and we're happy for Ashlee and Matt. We decided that Alyssa and James are going to be our partiers as they were dancing all during the reception and didn't want to leave when the time came. Benji is still my shy one and just sat at the table patiently waiting for when we were leaving. Alyssa and James tore up the dance floor and danced with anyone that would dance with them. They were so cute and it was a lot of fun to watch them.
We got up early and were preparing to leave by 6:00 am PDT but a storm threw a wrench in our plans as the pass through the Sierra's was closed. It took us an hour to decide what to do. We finally decided to go down south and come up through Las Vegas and St. George. That would add 3 more hours onto our trip but it was better than sitting there and hoping the pass would open back up. We left at around 7:00 PDT and all was going well until another freeway on our route was closed for 1 1/2 to 2 hours and we had to wait. This turned in to a very long trip. We hit some wind and snow along the way and by the time we reached our house, it was 4:15 Monday morning. I am glad we had the new tv or else it would have been an even longer trip. We are glad to finally be home and I think it may be a while before we take another road trip.
