Midwest to West

This past August God blessed us with the opportunity to move from Michigan to California. Driving across the country has always been a dream of ours and the experience was everything we had hoped it would be. Even though I have totally fallen off the blog wagon, I wanted to document this experience!

The first leg of our trip was from Michigan to Columbia, Missouri. We left later than we wanted to and drove well into the night. This wasn't really new territory for us so...no pictures. We woke up early, got breakfast at a local dive, and headed to Wichita, Kansas.

This was our shortest and most exciting day. My dearest friend was moving from Wichita to Texas the very next day so we were able to visit and stay overnight with them. Our boys had a great time playing and our husbands even offered to watch them so that we could go out and get some coffee and shop.

       

It was a much needed pit stop on our long road trip and a highlight of the trip for all of us.

        

We woke up early that morning and the guys walked a few blocks over to pick up donuts for us and then we hit the road. This was another long day for us as we were headed to Santa Fe, New Mexico. The first half of this journey (Kansas and Oklahoma) was boring and endless. There wasn't much to look at so I only took one picture.

    

New Mexico lived up to its name though! As soon as we crossed that border, we were enchanted. We spent hours pointing cool things out to each other. Neither one of us had seen this part of the country before and it had always intrigued us.

New Mexico was so green and beautiful with the hazy mountains as the backdrop.

The closer we got to Santa Fe, the milder the weather got. The view was amazing the higher up we went.

Don't mind our typical road trip bug covered windshield. This picture is exactly what I think of when I remember driving into Santa Fe.

Once we arrived, our first order of business was to get some dinner.  Xavier loved his quesadilla. 

Part II coming soon...

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