I’m so beat! We had quite an adventure in Kinston. The drive there was very pleasant. Ella was great, until it got dark. She hates the dark. She doesn’t mind being outside at night, but if she’s looking out a window she doesn’t like it. We were about an hour from Kinston when the sun went down and she kept saying, “it’s dark outside.” When I say kept saying it, it was more like 200 times. So I jumped in the back and put in Tinker Bell. I used to bash tv’s in cars and swore I’d never get one. But I sware my next car will have one. She was sucked into the movie, forgot about it being dark and it was great. We got to Kinston around 6:30. We did dinner and then realized we forgot the baby monitor. Which we needed since they have really steep wooden stairs next to the room we sleep in. And the baby gate was kind of cheap and easy to get over. So my granddad and I went to Walmart, which is about 25 minutes away. We got a monitor that has video so when we update to a toddler bed I can see what she’s doing. LOL We got back around 9 and Ella was still awake. My grandmother couldn’t wait to give Ella her Christmas presents as much I as begged for her to wait until the morning, but she did it as I was out of the room. Ella got her first bike! We need about a week and she’ll have it down. She can put her feet up and gets the idea, but isn’t there yet. Well, the excitement from the bike made her hyper so getting her to bed was the worst experience thus far. We went upstairs at 10 and she screamed, kicked, got out of bed, jumped around, for 45 minutes. I waved the white flag and had mom go up. I watched on the video monitor and Ella hit my mom in the face, so then I saw mom spank her then Ella got her feelings hurt then soon fell asleep at 11. It was rough.












Hope you enjoy the pics! There were over 500 pics taken, 340 uploaded… I think every minute of the trip was documented, but not by me! Hope everyone had a wonderful turkey day and had plenty to be thankful for!