Seriously! Walking at 10 months is insane!!!
No fears for this little one. She knows what she is capable of and does it. I hope this continues on for the rest of her life. She'll stress me out but that's okay, she'll know!
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Christmas 2014
So, it's practically Valentine's Day and I am just now finally getting to posting about Christmas...
This year, with it being the anniversary of Kathy's passing as well as our first Christmas without her, we all decided it would be best to get Jay out of the house and for us to travel to North Carolina to visit Chris and his family. Unfortunately, it was booked last minute, and Kathy's son and his family weren't able to join us (we had our own Christmas celebration with them when we got home). Once we **FINALLY** decided we were going for sure (after two almosts and two maybes) we ended up paying for our tickets in virgin blood and body organs to be sold on the black market. Not really...but they were stupid expensive. We flew into Charlotte, and were under the impression that it was a relatively short drive to the Fayetteville area where we would be visiting. We had a later flight out of Spokane, and arrived in NC around midnight local time. We were waiting for our bags, and Jay's never showed up....Then, once we finally got to our rental car (a mini van, LOL) and the address put into the GPS we realized we had a THREE HOUR CAR ride ahead of us; plus it was extremely foggy. It was horrendous. We were all tired, all the verge of cranky. All I can say is that Ryan is a rockstar for driving on unfamiliar roads in the dark and fog and our kids were great thanks to lots of help from Jay. I was the co-pilot and using every ounce of energy to just stay awake. I think we pulled into the hotel parking lot around 4am.
Once we got to our hotel in Hope Mills, we crashed hard. We all woke up at 10am, and got over to see Chris, Amber and "baby" Alma. She has gotten so big, and is running around into everything. It was such a blessing to see how much she has grown since we saw her this past summer. We had a great visit. It was very low-key and we just stayed at their house and enjoyed watching the kids interact and play together. We opened a few gifts on Christmas morning and then were up early the next day to catch our flight home. Because it was such a last minute flight, and we had been traveling quite a bit prior (had we known we were going to NC we would have bagged a few of our other plans) we decided it would be best for the kids to just have a quick weekend type trip. We would have LOVED to stay and see the area a little more; as North Carolina is a very pretty state with a lot of history. But OH well!
Our flights home were relatively uneventful, except I left my camera on one flight. Thank the Lord I realized it right away and the plane was still there and one of the flight attendants had turned it in! We made it back home the day after Christmas around 10pm or so and we were all very exhausted.
Santa found our house finally, he had gotten lost and confused since we were gone in North Carolina. So that morning, Gavin found all his presents under the tree and was having a blast helping Kjerstin open hers. That afternoon, we had Christmas with my family. Gavin and Kjerstin had a blast with their uncles opening presents. Kjerstin's first Christmas was a whirlwind to say the least. And even though this very special holiday will always be bittersweet, at least it is around a time of year that is very joyous and we will be surrounded my our family and loved ones.
(Pictures to come!)
This year, with it being the anniversary of Kathy's passing as well as our first Christmas without her, we all decided it would be best to get Jay out of the house and for us to travel to North Carolina to visit Chris and his family. Unfortunately, it was booked last minute, and Kathy's son and his family weren't able to join us (we had our own Christmas celebration with them when we got home). Once we **FINALLY** decided we were going for sure (after two almosts and two maybes) we ended up paying for our tickets in virgin blood and body organs to be sold on the black market. Not really...but they were stupid expensive. We flew into Charlotte, and were under the impression that it was a relatively short drive to the Fayetteville area where we would be visiting. We had a later flight out of Spokane, and arrived in NC around midnight local time. We were waiting for our bags, and Jay's never showed up....Then, once we finally got to our rental car (a mini van, LOL) and the address put into the GPS we realized we had a THREE HOUR CAR ride ahead of us; plus it was extremely foggy. It was horrendous. We were all tired, all the verge of cranky. All I can say is that Ryan is a rockstar for driving on unfamiliar roads in the dark and fog and our kids were great thanks to lots of help from Jay. I was the co-pilot and using every ounce of energy to just stay awake. I think we pulled into the hotel parking lot around 4am.
Once we got to our hotel in Hope Mills, we crashed hard. We all woke up at 10am, and got over to see Chris, Amber and "baby" Alma. She has gotten so big, and is running around into everything. It was such a blessing to see how much she has grown since we saw her this past summer. We had a great visit. It was very low-key and we just stayed at their house and enjoyed watching the kids interact and play together. We opened a few gifts on Christmas morning and then were up early the next day to catch our flight home. Because it was such a last minute flight, and we had been traveling quite a bit prior (had we known we were going to NC we would have bagged a few of our other plans) we decided it would be best for the kids to just have a quick weekend type trip. We would have LOVED to stay and see the area a little more; as North Carolina is a very pretty state with a lot of history. But OH well!
Our flights home were relatively uneventful, except I left my camera on one flight. Thank the Lord I realized it right away and the plane was still there and one of the flight attendants had turned it in! We made it back home the day after Christmas around 10pm or so and we were all very exhausted.
Santa found our house finally, he had gotten lost and confused since we were gone in North Carolina. So that morning, Gavin found all his presents under the tree and was having a blast helping Kjerstin open hers. That afternoon, we had Christmas with my family. Gavin and Kjerstin had a blast with their uncles opening presents. Kjerstin's first Christmas was a whirlwind to say the least. And even though this very special holiday will always be bittersweet, at least it is around a time of year that is very joyous and we will be surrounded my our family and loved ones.
(Pictures to come!)
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