LIFE'S A JOURNEY AND ONLY WE HOLD THE MAP: Off to Texas and SLC for Christmas!!

12-12-12 has arrived and we were off to Texas with anticipation for two reason, anticipating the fun times we will be having when we arrive there, and anticipating Desirae's surgery with hope in our hearts for her safe and speedy recovery. I am so pleased to announce that all went well with her surgery and she is home now and on the road to recovery!!! This mom is so glad that this journey of hers has turned out the way that it has, we love you Des!!
Danette was at the airport to pick us up with two other cute little faces in the van with her. The third cute little face was in school. It is always fun to be with our family where ever they are. We have had fun thus far just spending time with this family we don't see often. We have some fun things planned, Carly will be out of school early today for the Christmas break. I have been wanting to come to TX at Christmas time ever since Danette told me about a place in Collage Station that have fun Christmas lights, I love the Christmas season and the spirit it brings, love the music and lights, so I am excited to go there.
Some of the fun things that took place, we had Christmas early with the Mclanes, had fun opening presents, we drove to the Katy Mills mall, and ate lunch at the Rain Forest Cafe, the kids love that place and I really like that mall, it is a mall in the round. We drove to Galveston in the moter home and took the ferry across to an island, played on the beach, yes played on the beach the middle of December it was 77 degrees that day and it was absolutely beautiful. Ron and I took Chad's new red convertible for a drive and it was a pretty day and a pretty drive. My favorite thing, we went to see the Christmas lights, that night was warm no jackets needed, it was fun seeing all the lights having dinner there and watching the kids see Santa. It was fun visiting with the Mclane family before Christmas. The morning we were to leave, little Sam had an emergency, he split his head open and Ron and Chad took him to the insta care. Our flight was to leave Houston to SLC and then to Cedar and everybody was going to meet in Cedar for Logans birthday for dinner. For some reason when I looked at the time to leave I read it wrong, so we were thinking all along that we were to be at the airport at 4:30 (which was the time we left SLC) when I got online to check in, to our horrible surprise our flight was to leave at 2:15 and it was 1:15 at the time. Long story short we ended up flying out later that day into St. George so because it was a different flight we had to pay another full price ticket. Merry Christmas to us!!!
We made it home late that night and Sharise was there to pick us up and take us home.
By Saturday Ron had found the flu/cold bug from somewhere and was not feeling good at all, and when he stayed home from all Church meeting on Sunday, we knew he was not feeling good. By Monday that bug decided to jump on board with me, our plans for Christmas was to go up to SLC on Christmas day and spend time with the Ogdens, we had presents to take up to our parents and we had tickets to the Donny and Marie show on Fri, and was wondering what we should do. In talking with Des she said that they had already had it so we decided to head up, we had a laid back Christmas and on Wednesday we went to see Les Mis, I know I was out there infecting everybody, I did keep my sanitizer at hand and coughed into my coat, that works right? Thursday I spent most of the day downstairs, my cold had hit my sinus' and I was feeling miserable, got a blessing that night and was feeling better by Fri in time to go to the Donnie and Marie show, it was so good I loved it. The kids gave the tickets to me for my birthday, Thank you all my children for the wonderful present.
It was so fun spending time with each of our little families for Christmas this year. Now for picture overload.