Our trek to Virginia

After months of planning and saving we finally made the move to Virginia.  We started out 5:00 Friday morning July 22 determined to make it as far as we could.  Marc and I figured that the first day would be the best to travel the farthest.  With we needed loaded up in our new trailer and the back of Steve and Janet's truck we started the best adventure.  Our van had our overnight bags, toys, snacks, water, 4 kids, charlie (our chocolate lab) and lily "the turtle".  We were packed to the max excited to start the day.  We made it all the way to Tucumcari, New Mexico.  It was amazing.  We decided to stop at a Sonic in every state to document the fun we were having :)  With getting so far the first day and having the best kids, dog, turtle ever we decided to drive the same distance.  An amazing 800 miles each day would get us to Charlottesville in three days.  So we left Tucumcari by 8:00 the next morning and survived driving over Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and just over the border into Tennessee.  It was not a very exciting drive over Texas although we did see things like the "worlds largest cross" and the nicest rest stop I have ever seen.  Oklahoma was not terrible the people were nice and the Sonic there had a statue of a horse in front of it.  We stopped in Fort Smith Arkansas for dinner and it was an awesome town with beautiful old buildings.  We noticed that most people had accents and said y'all.  The restaurant was quaint and had delicious southern food.  We also made a stop at a Sonic somewhere in Arkansas, this was our least favorite Sonic.  The employees would not let us use the bathroom and while Marc was taking our picture he dropped my camera!  We made it to Memphis that night at 1:00 in the morning.  Everyone was exhausted and crashed instantly, except for my sweet Sawyer.  My perfect baby who had traveled perfectly for two days was wide awake.  I cant blame him for wanting to move around.  I finally got him to sleep and got a few hours of sleep myself.  We got out of the hotel earlier than the morning before and as we were backing out this woman started honking at us.  Marc stopped and I looked to see if he was backing into someone,  I noticed she was pointing at something behind the car and asked him if he put everything in the car.  We got out and pulled my MAKEUP bag from under the car.  I couldn't believe it.  I have had two casualties so far.  So on we go, now needing a Sonic earlier we stopped and had breakfast assessing the damage.  Tennessee was the longest state to cross and our favorite as far as beauty.    We would definitely go back and visit some of the cities.  We finally made it into our new home state and drove into the biggest rain storm.  Marc was staying really close to the car in front just to be able to see the brake lights, I was definitely keyed up to be driving in a storm like that but we made it through safe.  A few hours later we pulled into our new home.