Long Weekend

Last weekend, my mom, Payton and I traveled to Amarillo to attend my niece's 6th birthday party. We left Friday afternoon when I got home from work and didn't arrive in Amarillo until 11:00 p.m. Payton was a trooper and only got grumpy the last hour of the drive because she was so tired. Of course she didn't fall asleep until we hit the Amarillo city limit sign. Therefore, she was asleep a whole 20 minutes before we arrived at Granny and Pop's house. She immediately woke up and was ready to play again.

On Saturday we went to Jump-N-Jive for Addison's party. Payton played her little heart out and couldn't wait for them to cut the cake. She also wanted to know where her presents were. I kept explaining that it was Addison's birthday. However, her little two year logic couldn't understand why she wasn't getting any toys. After the party, Payton was so tired that my mom and I drove around Amarillo hoping she would fall asleep for a nap. It was a no go. We then met up for dinner with Derek's family and sister and the kids played in the sandbox at the restaurant. Payton was covered in sand. We were leaving straight from the restaurant to head to Wichita Falls for the night. My mom and I had to give Payton a "bath" in the sink of the restaurant to get all the sand off of her. We left Amarillo at 6:30 p.m. and Payton was out by the time we "officially" passed the Amarillo city limit sign. She slept for a little over two hours before she was wide awake. We still had about 2 hours before we were going to be at the hotel. Those two hours were the longest two hours of the trip. Of course, Payton fell back asleep about 20 minutes before we arrived at the hotel at 11:00 p.m.

Payton loved the hotel. We gave her a real bath that night since she was up. She was so relaxed in the bath. The next morning Payton thought she was hot stuff because she ate her muffin by the pool at the hotel. We also requested a wake-up call at 8:00 a.m.; however, they never called. We finally woke up at 8:40. I guess every one was pooped from the trip.

We finally arrived back at my parents' house at 11:30 a.m. where we spent the rest of the day in the pool. It was a great weekend, and I am so glad Payton got to be there for Addison's birthday. I would post some pictures, but I was so busy chasing Payton around at the party that I didn't remember to take one picture. I know that Granny took a ton of pictures so as soon as she e-mails me some, I'll be sure to post them.