Texas Trip 2016!

It's that time of year again!
Fall is on the way and that means it's time for us to start preparing for our annual trip to Texas from our home in Virginia!

We've decided to drive again this year instead of flying.  Even though the drive is long, it's worth it to us to be able to have our own car and not have to mess with hauling 2 very small children and all of their junk not to mention ourselves and all of our junk onto two planes just to get there.  Not to mention a layover...  Yeah, no thanks!

We will be gone a total of 15 days and are going to be spreading our drive there over 3 days and the drive back over 2 days.  On the first day, we are planning on leaving as early as possible (hopefully 4am) on a Wednesday and driving to somewhere near Jackson, MS and stopping for the night.  We will then get up early Thursday morning (around 6am) and drive from there to my grandparent's house in Temple, TX and spend several hours with them before staying the night in Waco.  We plan on sleeping in a little bit Friday morning and head to Valley View, Texas which is only an hour from my parents house to visit some friends.  We will then get to my parent's house before dinner and that is where we will be staying for the rest of our stay.

On the way back we plan on leaving very early in the morning on a Tuesday morning and driving to Memphis, TN to visit some other friends and stay the night.  We will then make the rest of the drive the next day and hope to get home by 8pm.


We will be driving our 2015 Honda Odyssey mini van or "space station" as Beau calls it with our Rocket Box on top for larger storage.

Cleanest it has ever been!  This was the day we bought it!

Beau will be doing the majority of the driving while I deal with the kids.  We will probably try to swap while the kids are napping to give him a break.

I am going to be doing many different posts/videos throughout the packing/planning process as well as the trip itself so keep an eye out for those as well as Instagram and Snapchat for real time updates!

If there is anything I dont post about that you want to see, let me know in the comments below!!

Wish us luck!!


See our post from last year below!

Our 20 Hour (1 Way) Car Trip with a 1 Year Old