Nightmare trip home

Our leave was over and it was time to pack up all our Christmas presents and bags and head to Tennessee. We loaded the car till there wasn't an inch left and headed out. Maybe a little over an hour into our drive James was complaning about the car shaking. It got worse and worse and then our back tire exploded. We pulled over so James could change the tire. Well it turned out that our jack was bolted down under the back seat. So we had to take out Logans carseat to get it out. And then to get our spare James had to move everything in the back of our car to the side of the highway to get to the tire. He finally got everything he needed when he couldn't get the tire off. It turns out he needed a screwdriver to take our tire off, which we didn't have! He tried and tried for what seemed like forever. And poor James is was about 14 degrees and now starting to snow really hard. His coat and gloves were packed away somewhere in the bags. Finally a cop car pulls up to our rescue. Then appears a 5 foot 90lb chick. James is trying to get the tire off and she tells him "maybe I can get it" LOL so she tried nothing. She called a wrecker for us. 30 minutes later he came. Unscrewed a few things and then whacked the tire with a sledgehammer. He was nice enough to only charge us $60 and not the full $75 because James did most the work!! How nice! then we were back on the road. Thankfully the kids were so good for us, or it could have just made the trip that much worse.

the kids at McDonalds after we fixed the tire!

Madison fell asleep watching about 8 hours of Scooby Doo