My family went to see the Rudds! How cool is that?! We got a call Thursday morning about 6:30am inviting us to Arkansas to see my great-grandparents who are 89 and 92 years young. We decided that this would be the perfect chance for our family to meet the Rudd's. So, about a half and hour before we left Thursday evening we were packing. For the most part the kids were great on the trip. It was a grand adventure we embarked on this weekend and we are much closer as a family because of it.

Joshua, Kristen, and their boss Judah are good people. Our kids were a little fussy and Heather and I were a bit road-worn so we hope we didn't scare them away with our first encounter. And yes, we are definitely still considering the big move. Maybe even a bit more so. We are sorry it was such a short meeting, we wish we could have stayed a lot longer, but it wouldn't have been fair to the kids. They were definitely troopers through the whole thing. We are very proud of them.

To the Rudds--we hope this is just the beginning.