Saturday morning at 7:15am we had the truck all loaded up with these four stinkers ready for a road trip to Red Bluff with a night of camping thrown in there! We got on the freeway pretty proud of ourselves for an early start with four kids and right when I Instagrammed this photo - the truck broke down on the side of 280!!

Yup - stranded on the freeway with a full load of stuff and four kids. Not great! We called AAA and a friend to pick us up (although Francie was excited to ride in the tow truck) The driver looked in our car and goes "what do you want me to do with all these kids?" uhh we got that part buddy - just tow our car :)

After a few trips to move stuff around (tow truck guy insisted we leave the coolers and camping stuff that wouldn't fit in suburban on the side of the road!?) we re-loaded kids and stuff in Suburban, left truck at the auto body place and were back on the road. 2.5 hours later :)

half way into the drive - trying to keep JJ occupied by telling her to kiss her elbow. She got pretty frustrated and said "HELLLLP me! peeease!!"

Lunch stop at Rubio's at the Nut Tree - always a good lunch and Janie LOVES her "beans rice!" Dad plays the "Hey who took a bite of my burrito when I wasn't looking!?" game - never gets old

So Sunday Heff went down to the Corning Ford dealership to check out the trucks - the green truck served us well but it was 6 years old and had been having some problems. Not worth being stranded like that again! He called me to tell me he liked a white truck with upholstery and no nav he liked - I was skeptical but considered it (limited selection on the lot since we need a bench seat in front for the extra kid) he picked me up to look and it didn't take me long to talk him into the "sparkly" white (not just plain white :) truck with all the etxras - I like to drive it too and we put enough miles in the car as a family it seemed worth it!

Tessa sleeping through the car buying process....