Our homeschool location for the day

Lake of shining waters.

Today when we saw the ocean Kent said, "Mom this must be the Lake of Shining Waters!"

Good Kids

Our kids have been such troopers in the car!! We are incredibly blessed with such good travelers they are. We've been listening to audio books and they each have a stack of things next to them to keep them entertained and they have been happy. Elijah is the one who's been struggling the most, but then I give him something else and he's happy again for a while.

Dinosaur State Park

We stopped at the funnest state park in Texas today. I wish we could have spent a whole day there instead of the couple of hours that we did. They had dinosaur tracks which were cool to see, but I think everyone's favorite park was playing in the cold water. It was nice too, because everyone of the kids fell in the water but it didn't matter because we had our trailer with us so we were able to get them all changed into dry clothes before we kept going on our trip. We seriously need to plan to go back to that state park sometime and spend more time there!

Abilene, Texas

Yesterday after driving all morning, the kids and I thought we would let dad rest since he drove all day and went to find a park. We found the coolest park not far from where we stopped so the bigger kids were able to ride their bikes while I pushed Elijah in the stroller. The kids had so much fun, except poor Elijah fell and bit his lip pretty hard. He was sad for a minute but was quickly distracted by the swings and was all smiles after that.