Family | Built Wright & Co.

Last weekend we embarked on a crazy-fun, action-packed road trip up north. You know, the kind of trip when you momentarily forget how difficult it is to travel with small children and convince yourself that you should cram your days (and nights) with as much visiting and activity as is humanly possible?

It was stressful to drive with two Little Ones to Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, all within the span of just 5 days. But all of the effort was totally worth it.

I’ll give you 6 reasons why…

Cousin Love!

Our road-trip extravaganza began with a stop in Annapolis with Nena and Pops.

Here’s the Little Miss celebrating the Birthday Girls. Just a reminder, in case you forgot from last year, I am now (and will always be) “29 and a bit.” Nena, well, she’s more like “29 and a wee bit more.” Though if you ask our Little Leading Lady, Nena and I (and all people for that matter) are “TWO!”

After giving our kiddos lots of hugs and kisses, Mike and I high-tailed it out of there for 36 hours of relaxing child-free time. We drove to New Jersey to celebrate Mike’s cousin’s wedding. And you wanna know the first thing we did when we got to the hotel? Took a nap, of course! It was awesome.

But don’t feel too bad for the abandoned Little Miss and Mister. They were spoiled rotten by Nena and Pops, and got to be entertained by my super-fun cousin, Ellie, and her sweet son, Alex.

After having a blast celebrating Mary and Brian’s wedding (and a night of sleep without baby monitors perched by our heads), we trekked to Philly to meet up with Nena and the kids, and spend time with my sister’s family.

If you don’t have any big sisters, then you gotta have doting older cousins like these!