First Road Trip

my lovely sisLeah and I have been missing my sister and her hubby, Jason, and their children Raen, Nicholas and Paxten for a long time now. They only live six hours away, but it's been hard for us to get out there enough. So last weekend we packed up the car, strapped Emery into his carseat, and started down the PA turnpike.

Leah in the rental car, with our dead car next to her. Unfortunately, about two hours into our drive our car broke! Transmission. We limped it to a repair shop (thank you GPS!) that just happened to be owned by two guys who had retired from working at the Ford plant down the road. They did a free diagnosis for us and said we'd be looking at a couple thousand dollars for all the work that would be needed to get the car running safely again.

So we rented a car, left our car with them and headed to Ohio!

my lovely nearphew. the smartest, funniest, most fun-to-be-ound sixth grader in the worldWe had a great weekend with my sister and family. Jason and Genelle's children are so sweet and smart and happy. They were super excited to meet their cousin, Emery, and we all had a great time together. It's really nice that Emery will have three cousins who live so close (relatively speaking)! Hopefully they will have many fun weekends together over the years.

When we got back, our friends who live in NJ let us borrow their van (thank you Koerwers!) until we could get a car. Which we did pretty quickly. We had already researched which car we'd want, so we knew that we were looking for a 2009 Toyota Matrix with low miles.

it's called nautical blueHere's a photo of what our car looks like when it's driving and being photographed by a professional photographer. It looks good, but this photo makes it sparkle a bit more than what you'd see in real life. Anyway, it's an All Wheel Drive model, which is nice.

Also, Emery has learned to smile! It's pretty darn cute. Click the picture below to see more photos from our Ohio trip!

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Comments

[aunt diane]

I love this picture!!!!!
Glad you had a great visit with your and family!
xoxoxo's