The blog comes to an end

Well, we have ended where we started...right here in Searcy, Arkansas! Natalie starts back to school tomorrow morning and I return to Texas to be with my kids, Nate and Lily. It was a long, winding road which was filled with excitement and adventure...truly the trip of a lifetime!

Many, many thanks go out to Natalie's Uncle Jay and Aunt Jenna, who housed us in Tulsa on our last night on the road and welcomed Grandpa John, Grandma Barbara, Uncle Bill & Anna over for dinner at like 9:30pm, which was as soon as we could get there. They had hamburgers, guacamole, fresh fruit salad, key lime pie and brownies, among other things...nothing could have tasted better to us at that moment.

It was my first opportunity to be amongst the Lohrey extended family, and I loved every minute of it...here are three of the Lohrey men at dinner that evening...Jay, John and Bill.

Jay and Jenna also made a delicious breakfast for us the next morning, all while they were preparing to go to Hawaii for John's senior trip...thank you SO much for your hospitality! Also, to John, Lily and Molly...thanks for welcoming us so graciously into your home (and thanks to Molly for surrendering her room!). Lily, thanks for singing with us and John, we hope the game night went well! To all three of you we look forward to seeing you again very, very soon!  Enjoy every moment of your Hawaii trip!

For those of you who have followed this blog closely, I am going to leave this site up for a while...it will serve as the basis for some of our own scrapbooking from the trip...and I will try to update the slide show one more time...we have so many photos!