So we went on vacation...

...and had a pretty good time. We went to Abilene, TX where a good portion of Jenn's family live.
It was a lot of food and a lot of talking and a lot of wondering where Jackson and Joseph had run off to. The kids loved the hotel. We bunked up with Grace and Zane, which was extra fun because we had dueling scream sessions all night. As soon as Zane would finally get to sleep, Joseph would start in. Jackson slept through everything.
On the ride up, somebody told us that the drive would take 8 hours. Because we would have 3 toddlers in the car, we decided to leave at night, and let them sleep through it. So we left about 9:00, figuring that with stops for the potty and food and whatnot, that we'd be there around 6:00 am, and could just go to one of the cousin's houses for breakfast. The problem here is that the drive is actually 6 hours, and I drive fast. So we showed up at 3:00 with nothing to do. We decided to go where you go when there is no place left to go. IHOP. After a pile of eggs and funny face pan-cakes, we decided to call the hotel and see if they would take pity on us, which they did, and let us check in early and get a few hours sleep, which we did.
So. The way back would have to be in the daytime. there was no going around that. I figured we could leave at 9:00, do three hours, stop for lunch and some running around, then the other three hours, putting us home around 5:00, just in time for dinner. Wrong. We had to stop many many more times and for much longer durations because general child craziness, and we didn't roll in until 11:00pm. By that point we were all sick to death of the sight of one another, that we just dumped our stuff in a pile in the garage and went to bed.
Good times.
In other news...
I have gone viral. The animation I made for an interview the paper did with Ira Glass of This American Life fame, has hit the blogs, and made it to Ira's Wikipedea page.
I'm Internet famous.

um... that's about it.

Powers out.