San Fran

This last week Ellie and I took a trip with my parents, Kellie, and Ryker to visit my sister Kim in Northern Cali. We left bright and early on Thursday morning for the 9 hour drive. The kids did pretty well and slept most of the way to Bakersfield. After a stop at McDonalds for breakfast and a little running around we got back in the car for the second half. The kids were a little more restless this half, but finally fell asleep for awhile. Then it was peaceful until the last 15 minutes. Ellie was done and screaming her complaints from the back and Ryker was just glaring at us.
Once we got to Kim's the kids were so excited to run around in the backyard and chase Polo (the family dog). They both loved Polo and would give him hugs and kisses all the time.While we were there we went to Alex's and Ritchie's basketball games, ate a lot of great food, took a trip to the pier in San Fran, went shopping, and just hung out. We also celebrated x-mas with the Fishers opening their gifts. Ellie and Ryker were quite helpful and loved the hat that Alex got!We had such a great time until it was time to think about the drive home. It seemed to take forever and the kids were not as great, but still really pretty good. Ellie loved having Ryker around and is going through some withdraws without him 24/7!