Montgomery

Hey, yall - 

From Florida, we headed north to Montgomery to visit the Morgan side of the family. I mean, if you're going to go to the trouble and expense to fly two small children across the country, you might as well see everydamnbody you're related to. 

I think by this point, the travel was starting to wear on us, since Laney requested some "alone time" in the middle of the backseat.

Traveling with Peg Peg and Tex is a different ballgame than traveling with the Burbachs. When WE leave home for a trip, we throw everything in the back, willy-nilly, say a quick, silent prayer that we have everything we need, remind ourselves that there will be stores where we're going, and then if we have the same number of people when we reach our destination, we're happy. 

Peg Peg and Tex pack way ahead of time, consult the weather, and then hermetically seal their luggage and strap it down in case it gets a mind to wander. 

We stopped at a beautiful botanical state park in the Florida panhandle which was fabulously creepy, and I'm sure inhabited by alligators and vampires.

On the plus side, we'd been traveling together for so long by this point that Tex and Hagen were on the same nap schedule. 

We arrived in Montgomery in time to attend a pool party in honor of the first birthday of my cousin Reed's baby, Keys. 

For the first time ever, Granny Jack got to have all of her great-grandchildren in one place.

Laney attached herself to my cousin John and wore him slap out. 

We celebrated the 4th of July with my uncle Chris and aunt Danae. 

We had a fireworks show in the front yard and a slip n' slide and water balloons and it was great fun.

Laney celebrated the 4th by liberating herself of about 4 inches of hair. 

In some ways, she's almost 16. But in other, beautiful ways, she's not.

Next up: Georgia!

Love,

Mom