a road trip birthday.

We left Green Bay Sunday mid-morning and drove as far as Cincinnati. The kids were excited about staying in a hotel. We drove the remaining 8 hours the next day, which happened to be Ben's birthday. When we got home that night, he had a pretty sad birthday cake made out of Little Debbie tree cakes and opened a few presents. We were glad we got to spend so much time together over Thanksgiving since he has spent most of December traveling for work.

Simon insisted on carrying his blanket and book to the hotel room. The kids were troopers, even when we arrived at the hotel after 10 p.m. Everyone was pretty grumpy on the second day of driving though. Always sad to leave Grandma and Grandpa's house and cousins and fun.