18 days....

We just got home from an 18 day world wind.  It seemed like we were gone a lot longer than that.  It is amazing how dirty your house can get when your away and Cody even did all the laundry and the dishes before I got home!  We drove about 1800 miles, only one breakdown( from Jones) and he had a good reason.  We had a busy, fun filled 3 weeks which included:  Wylie, Edgewood, Van, San Antonio, back to Van, Edgewood then Wylie, Dallas, Allen and Frisco!  We had lunch with old friends, cousins we have never met, Aunts I haven't seen in forever!  I have found my new love......IKEA and Chuy's!  I met up with a few of my old OG friends at the new IKEA in Frisco and it was AWESOME!  There I realized I need to get a new GPS CD for my car because roads weren't even showing up.  We did lots of shopping!  Stopped in Gainsville at the outlets on our way in and on our way out!  Made a pit stop at the Terrell outlets with Grammy!  and hit up a few children stores in Ardmore,OK waiting for Cody to meet back up with us for the ride home!  and found JBear two stinker shirts while in Texas!!!!

Went swimming and LOVED it!

Got to feed a mini horse!......almost got bit by a mini horse:)

Tried to talk Jackson into liking Jones....Sadie is sold!

Played in Nannie and Daddo's sprinklers

Hung out with my favorite cousin Hannah!

Uncle josh and Jones got to help Cody at the Expo in SA!

Jones somehow managed to pick up his daddy's and friends old school gang sign!

When I got home I cleaned out Jones' closet.  Everything he had was either way small or the stuff that fit was winter clothes.  I took everything off hangers and put in storage bins and hung up all the clothes he racked up while we were gone and now his closet is full again.....little stinker! 
Since we were away from Cody 90% of our getaway, we were on the phone a lot.  I said Daddy to Jones about a million times and Cody talked to him on the phone a million times.  By the end of our trip Jones was saying DaDa!  He missed him so much!

It was so good to get back.  Still trying to get the house in order and cleaned.  Our room looks so empty now. We moved Jones into his room on Monday night.  I finally just moved everything out of our room.  His rocker, pack n' play, put up his bassinet, humidifier and all his goodies to his room. He was way more ready than me.  He did really good, better than me.  When I first put him in his crib I think he was a little shocked that this was not what usually happens and started crying and was bright eyed and didn't want to go back down.  I let him swing for a little bit till he got drowsy and tried again.  It only took 3 tries and he was out!  The next night 2 and last night he went down the first time!  Although he woke up at 4:45 ready for the day this morning.....No Bueno!  This momma is tired!  The first night he was out of our room I woke up about 20 times and confused on where I was.....and looked at his video monitor about 50 times!  Which is weird because I'm not one of those paranoid moms that constantly worries!

Trying to get ready for round two on Tuesday.........

It has been so easy traveling with Jones because he had been sleeping in a bassinet that fold up easy and was very light to carry.  Now I'm gonna have to tote his HUGE pack n' play with us.  I was not thinking when I registered for that gigantchuwon of a thing!  I might need to invest in a smaller one and sale this one!