Has it really been almost 2 months since I have blogged? Time sure has flown by. It doesn't seem like it has been that long. Anyway, So since my last blog there has been Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and McKenna. She is quite a crazy little girl.
For Thanksgiving we spend it with my family. We all ate at my brothers new house. Its very nice and roomy. The food was really good. Probably the best Thanksgiving meal I've had in a long time. I failed to take any pictures of this event.
For Christmas, we all headed down to Phoenix. My brother, Erik and his family, moved down there last summer. It was the year to go to Arizona. A few months ago when everyone was getting their plans together, we had decided not to attend Christmas in Phoenix. At the beginning of November, Tucker surprised me with tickets to Phoenix! I was pretty excited, and I think he was to, even though he didn't exactly say that. We decided not to let my family know, except for a few people. You always need people on the inside of your surprise to keep you in the know. Plus we needed someone to pick us up at the airport. After many weeks of my Mother asking me questions about Christmas and asking me why I couldn't take her to the airport(we were leaving the day before she did) and was glad to surprise her at the airport and get my secret out in the open. NO one asked any questions about anything, well except for Teaghan, except for my mother! It was starting to get hard lying to her. A few more days and she would have figured it out. So we got there the Sunday before Christmas. Doug, Kristin, and fam left that morning and drove there. So we got to surprise them first. Doug knew, but no one else did. They were surprised. That night, before doug and family arrived. Coleen took a picture of all of us eating at the table and sent it to Elisha. She was the one person who gave me the hardest time about not going there for Christmas. Just about everytime we talked she would say something. She even got a little mad at me and Tucker for not "Wanting" to come down there. Elisha said she got a little tear in her eye when she saw that we had come after all. Micah, Elisha's hubby, was in on the secret. We would try to have secret talks but elisha knew something was up. She probably would have figured it out. So the next day, Monday, my mom was coming in. Coleen, Teaghan, and I went to the airport to get her. Coleen and Teaghan meet her at the gate and went to the baggage claim. While she was grabbing her bag I snuck in behind her and pretended in was my bag and tried to take it from her. I got a little bit of a dirty look before the smile came along. She was happy that we had come down for Christmas. We had a fun time while we were there. We didn't do much, but we had fun playing games after the kids had gone to bed and having to smell all of Joe's farts. Oh my gosh! That was not very pleasant, but at 11ish it was pretty funny. Christmas was enjoyable. McKenna really needed some food in her belly because she was pretty cranky and didn't really want anything to do with her presents at first. She finally came around after she got some juice in her belly. We also took some family pictures. They have turned out so nice. I should be getting the CD this week. So I will post those later. But you can get a sneak peak here. They turned out so good. I can't wait to see more.
This is our tree in our apartment. How we got the tree there is a funny story. But for another post.
Eriks back yard. McKenna loved this swing. She would climb in and sit all by herself for a while. With her, Zac(left) and Treaven.
McKenna on christmas morning. She doesn't do good on an empty stomach.
This is Addison. My sisters kid. When these two first meet, McKenna didn't want anything to do with her(that was about 4ish months ago). But as you can see now all she wanted to do was kiss her. Addison doesn't seem to be enjoying it as much as McKenna.
For New years we went to Tuckers moms in Oroville. Since we ditched her for Thanksgiving and Christmas we thought it would be nice to be there for New years. We spend 5 or so days there. It was nice. I didn't get any pictures of that either. Oh well. None of us stayed up to bring in the New Year. McKenna had a cold and was having a hard time sleeping. So we all just went to bed. Oh well, there is always next year.
All in all it has been a great few months. It was fun keeping the secret and then surprising my family, taking family pictures, being together with my family, seeing my sister and tricking her, and spending time with Tuckers family. It sure was nice to be home though. After almost 2 weeks of being away it was nice to unpack the suitcases and put them away. For a while I hope. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone who reads my blog.
1 comment:
Merry Christmas to you guys too :) Glad you had a great time with your family. It's so weird to think that people don't have snow on Christmas!!!! But I'm sure it's nice and warm :) Give McKenna xoxo from us. We miss you guys!
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