We are home! (Too much traveling in too short a time)

Traveling with children is a challege..... hahahahhaha.......

The kids were actually very good, it was just amazingly impossible to lugg all of our luggage and hold kids and car seats while trying to run to catch our next flight.

Our flights to and from Dallas were the only ones where we sat together, we always had to ask people to move so that Kaitlyn didn't sit by herself... on our way there from Dallas to Chicago, we sat on the plane for an hour before we took off, and then were in a holding pattern waiting to land for a half hour....so by the time we landed and got off the plane we had to RUN through the terminal before our flight to Madrid took off without us...we were the last people on the plane, they even started taxiing before we took our seats! Needless to say we are glad we packed clothing in our carry-ons because it took a day before we got our luggage.

It took three days for the kids to adjust from Jet Lag...that was fun.... they did really well in the car rides to Izmourren(2hrs) and Fez(5hrs) and back, praise the LORD!

Flying back was worse then getting there.... Kaitlyn got sick as we landed in Miami (3 times) so we ran out of clothes and had to get her one of those "some who loves me went to Miami and got me this shirt" and I needed a new shirt...you did not want to have to sit next me after Kaitlyn threw-up on me either..... and then...

....on the 19th... Mackenzie took her first steps!!!!!!!...(then later got hurt really bad by a door incedent and was crying so much she threw-up right down my shirt.....gross!!!)

So......note to self so much traveling in too short a time.....not the best for kids. :-)

See below for some great pictures of the kiddos sleeping while traveling!

Mackenzie asleep in the wonderful lifesaver of a backback that the Smarts let us barrow! (Thanks!) This was on the beach in Melilla.

The kiddos asleep on the mattress in our room in Izmourren, Morocco

Kaitlyn fell asleep on a chair in a resturant our first night in Melilla (we stayed there for 2 nights before driving to Izmouren)

Kailyn asleep on the plane from Madrid to Miami... on the floor.

Mackenzie asleep on the Plane from Madrid to Miami in this really cool bassenet... very handy!