Connecticut visit

Time Out For Women was a Friday-Saturday event. The following Tuesday I packed the car and Julie and I headed east. The longest I've ever driven by myself is the six hours to Ben's family's home in southern Indiana. This time, I was going to Connecticut. I had borrowed a portable DVD player from a friend, but that didn't keep me from having to stop every few hours for Julie. She gets antsy in the car, and I don't like to drive long distances by myself. I did it in two days, staying in Wilkes-Barre, PA overnight. I'm glad that I planned to take two days, because the entire states of Pennsylvania and New York seemed to be under construction, not to mention the city of Danbury, CT, where I sat in traffic for 45 minutes between two exits before I even had the opportunity to get off. What should have been a 9.5-hour drive ended up being two 6-hour days.

We stayed for about a week. Mom and Dad were both there (Dad's traveling a lot these days for work). Clayton was in school, but Candice was home visiting for a month after graduation. It was nice, because were all together, except for Ben.

I brought my camera with me, but I didn't take very many photos (not like last summer's visit). I did do a couple of informal photo shoots, though. I got some great shots of my brother Clayton playing tennis, which you can see here, and my sister Candice wanted me to take some pictures of her too, since he last nice ones were her senior (high school) portraits. You can see hers here.

I did get a few of mom and Julie at Clayton's tennis match.







While I was taking pictures of Clayton playing, Mom was helping Julie climb the van.









And even though we told her the photo shoot was for Auntie Candice, Julie still wanted in on it. It was after church on Sunday, so that's why Julie is still in her cute dress.


I swear this kid has no fear. It's lucky Candice was there, because one of these days, Julie is going to jump off something that high.



Julie loves looking at pictures of Candice. She really likes her, so she wanted to be very involved.



So I said earlier that I didn't really take very many photos, but then I made a post full of them. These are pretty much all I took the whole week. It was a nice laid-back visit, though. Other than the drive.