must have home decor

we are home from bryce canyon, utah. it was an awesome trip and the birthday boy did so good for his first time sleeping in the pack and play in a hotel room! he is so much fun. we jumped on the bed and took a jetted bubble bath and then he had his bottle and went to sleep like usual. he did so good in the car, and he is talking SO much now! we took a bunch of pictures, and i will post them when i unpack and find the stinkin cord to the computer... so in like 3 days, in case you wonder how i travel. ;)

one thing i learned on this trip; always save your money to buy home decor while on vacation.

why is this so crucial? because those gas stations are amazingly stocked with only the classiest of items and you do NOT want to have to follow your husband around the store going "honey! this is so perfect, remember how you wanted one of these that one time? please can we get it?" only to have him say right back to you, "no, lynsie, we are not buying a statue of a wolf howling or a hand painted sign that says something about God and George Strait."

i am afraid my sick obsession with gas station novelty items on I-15 started a long long time ago, back when we used to take the "trail of tears" (pardon my affectionate nickname) every other weekend in our hasty moves to and from st george. i guess the gas station items made me feel connected to something, somewhere. it was like i knew i had been somewhere and had evidence. funny little concept, but you know you have felt that way as a child... maybe it was something like being told you were taken to disney land when you were little but not remembering and there being no physical evidence. see... this is why i needed the evidence.

it's funny, because this morning adam was armed and ready with the camera. he wanted to make sure that hundreds of pictures of tristan were taken on his birthday during our road trip. it was so cute. he wanted to be sure that tristan had "proof".

love,
lynsie