Passports!

We have a long, long list of to-do's to cross off before we untie the dock lines and head out on this journey. Passports are at the top of this list. We visited our local Costco and had all of our passport photos taken and printed in under 30 minutes. Not too bad! Next was to get the applications for the kids, along with renewals for mine and Jared's. We made an appointment back in March and couldn't get in until a month later. The guy on the phone mentioned we could go try another nearby town but that they were walk-in only. Not something I wanted to risk doing with kids--the wait could be hours! Since we aren't in a hurry, we were fine with waiting.

We set off one day after school and were in and out of the post office in about an hour. Again, not too shabby considering we had three bored kids to deal with. They occupied their time by asking questions of the lady assisting us and then playing I-Spy until we were walking out of there.
We celebrated crossing off this item on our list by going out to dinner. Hey, baby steps...

About a month later, we all received our passports in the mail.