And we drive a truck.

Well family we are officially over the Colorado border and about 700 miles from our  destination. Shaun's brother (Levi) brought a new truck to add to his fleet and it happened to be just a few hours from us. Shaun had a great idea and turned to me to ask if I wanted to go on a road trip to Utah with him. I agreed and we hurried and let out work know called  the sitter and packed out things to head on our 3 day trip to Utah. My only request is that I got to stay at least 24 hours in Roosevelt( I LOVE the basin for some reason) so we started Friday evening drove to Nashville to pick up the truck and then started our way across the country!

When Shaun mentioned what we would be driving I kinda had a minor freak out. He said it would be a dump truck and my mind went immediately to the dump truck my family has that is about 50 years old and takes a special skill to even get it to turn over.

This is Caden when he literally dumped the dump truck into a hole. See why I was nervous?

Anyways when we got to Nashville I was presently surprised. Driving around in this thing. Makes me feel like Bad-A. We've named it "the beast" and I now have a weird attachment to it. Not sure why, it's a truck! And it's not even a truck I can drive... Not that I want to, according to my grandpa me and semis are a scary combination.


Anyways we jumped in the truck and headed on our way. The first night we drove for a few hours and stayed in a tiny town called Marion, IL. The Next day we did a 14 hour day and had to stop in Kansas City for some BBQ. We went to Oklahoma Joe's and I have truly never had any ribs even close to as good as these. Sorry Texas, you loose. We had to wait an hour and a half in the cold to get a seat but in the end it was very much worth it! I'll stand in line for those ribs any day! Well most days.  After the BBQ from heaven we headed to Colby, KS and called it a night. Now were driving again and  somewhere between dead field and windmill in Colorado. It's been a pretty fun trip oddly enough but I think I'd be fine to not do another road trip for a few years.

Here is the actual truck we drove and my chauffeur, plus a gorgeous picture heading over rabbit ear pass in Colorado

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Other than this fun adventure we have had some pretty wild weeks since our semesters is starting to come to an end and finals are growing near.  Shaun has a presentation on Wednesday that we have to be back for and that will be the last time he meets for his one class. Crazy we're already toward the end of another semester again.  I really look forward to the day when we are graduated and out of school.

Speaking of school I did receive my acceptance letter for my masters a few weeks ago. So starting January I'll begin my masters through Ball State. Oh boy!

Oh boy! I forgot! We found out on Monday for sure that we are having a boy! So you can imagine we we're pretty happy about that. Everything still looks good and I'm feeling great. Not sure it gets much easier than this. I've been lucky.

I think that's about all there is to update. Happy reading folks!