Merry Christmas!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Our Diva turned 7 but she seems to think it was 17! She enjoyed all the cards, phone calls, gifts, and attention pretty much the entire month.

We celebrated Christmas a week early this year, as we were planning to drive to Houston on Christmas Eve & Christmas Day. The kids had so much fun riding their scooters, watching new movies, & playing new games all weekend long.

Christmas Eve traditional pajama photo without the tree!

Christmas Eve came & brought a big snow storm with it, so we decided to leave for Houston on Christmas Day. We didn't even think that everything would be closed! It was hard to find food & sometimes an open gas station, but we made it to Wichita, Kansas before we decided to get a hotel. The weather was very strange-overcast with the wind blowing snow all over the road & then we went through quite a few dust storms. In some areas it was white-out conditions! The only thing open in Wichita was an Ihop for dinner & then we stayed at the Hyatt. The night was a rough one, as someone was up every half hour.

We stopped at McDonald's & Winchell's for breakfast before heading out & drove for what seemed like FOREVER!!! The weather in Oklahoma was beautiful, but the roads had 3-4 inches of snow packed ice on them, & cars all over the side of the roads, so we were grateful for staying in Wichita & not trying to push through. We drove with our 4-wheel drive turned on from Colorado all the way to Dallas, where it had snowed the night before. Crazy weather! It was only supposed to be 16 hours from Denver to Houston, but it took us 18. It was also supposed to be in the 60's but it was only in the 50's.