Team Pierce: Elise's Baby Blessing - A Last Minute Road Trip to Austin, Tx

We had really been wanting to go to Austin to attend Elise's baby blessing and for Ryan to meet the Mockler side of the family, but didn't think we'd be able to swing it with newborn Ryan. But Spencer and I decided last minute, like the day of, to road trip down to Texas. There had been some drama at school with Spencer and I was still on maternity leave, so it was the perfect opportunity for a spontaneous getaway. We had no idea how Ryan would do, since he'd never been in the car for more than 30 minutes at a time, so we figured we'd go on a road trip and see how far we got, maybe we'd just end up spending the night in St Louis, but either way we would get out of Evanston and have a family trip. Ryan was a champ and slept almost the whole way as we drove 25 hours straight. We drove in 4 hour stretches, then would stop eat, feed/change Ryan, switch drivers and hop back on the road.

It was a wonderful trip and we were so glad we did it, we had a great time. It was a little rough driving straight through to get there and then only being able to stay for a few days and turning around and driving straight through back. But, it was definitely worth it!