Road Atlanta

This past weekend we took our first family of four road trip. We were a little apprehensive to drive 7 + hours with a newly potty trained toddler, a 3 month old and towing a car. HOWEVER, it went much better than we expected. well the actual road trip part anyway. 

The trip down took longer than it should have because we got stuck in awful atlanta traffic from a wreck. But we made it to Tiffany's house and everyone was so excited we finally arrived! Ainsley warmed up to everyone much quicker than I thought she would. She had an absolute blast playing with her cousins and Aunt Tiffany and Uncle Kevin. We got to meet up with Johnny and Amy and their girls several times which made us both very happy. We took all the kids to Dave and Busters one night and they had the time of their lives. We also got to see Uncle Curt and Aunt Rita a lot and that was so so good because we haven't seen them in years. 

Friday we didn't have any plans so we went to Stone Mountain. Philip had never been before and we used to go all the time when we were younger. I wish we had had more time to spend there, but we took a sky lift to the top of the mountain and let Ainsley run around. She had so much fun and it was beautiful this time of year. 

loves her shadow!  she's dancing with it!! :)

Saturday and Sunday were Philip's race days. He had several of his race buddies meeting him there so he has been really excited about this weekend for the past 4 months. Saturday morning he got up super early and headed to a track call Road Atlanta to get ready.  Apparently this is a big time track that holds multiple big racing events during the year and is a bucket list track for Philip.  My cousin Johnny was going to meet there to ride along with him. Me and the kids actually ended up getting to the track around the same time as Johnny so we got to visit with him a little bit before we went back to Tiffany's. I got both kids down for their afternoon naps when my phone started dinging with texts and phone calls. not something you want to happen when your husband is on a race track going 145mph.  Turns out Philip was ending a session, Johnny in passenger side, when he pushed down on his brake pedal and it pushed down to the floor. His brakes went out. He could either rear end the car in front of him going 120mph or drive off track. He drove off track, missed the car, the wall and amazingly he didn't flip. He skipped all the way through a gravel trap that is meant to slow down cars that don't make the corner.  We are still sorting out the extent of the damage to the car but are thankful Johnny and Philip came out unscathed.  We attribute them not rolling to the extra weight Johnny provided to the car:) God was truly with them in the car and kept them safe. We are so thankful. 

GO DADDY GO! 

Philip's competition for the weekend- Johnny was so happy when Philip passed him :)

So the rest of the weekend was spent just hanging out with family and enjoying getting to see all of them that we don't get to see nearly enough. Ainsley even asked to take a nap several days because she was so worn out:) We had such a good time and can't wait to see everyone in KY for Christmas! 

mary blanche wave goodbye