christmas vacation

I know its a little late, but better late than never I guess.  Sorry it's been so long, but we got a Wii for  Christmas/ Anniversary and that has been occupying all of Adam's time recently.  We took a trip to Alabama for Christmas this year.  It was such a good trip and we had a wonderful time with Adam's family.  It had been 10 months since we had seen any of them and none of them had met Kate yet.  We left on Christmas eve night about 8.  We were expecting the airport to be packed but we lucked out.  We didn't even have to wait to check our bags curbside.  We witnessed a strange yelling match between the lady who takes your tickets at the gate and a passenger right when we got to our gate (they were just finishing boarding the flight before ours).  Then we waited, got some hot dogs and some chicken for Aidan, and replaced the water bottles that we had to leave at security (I looked up online about taking them with kids and I was sure they would make and exception for a baby with formula...but no).  We weren't sure about the flight time and what that would do to the kids, but both of them actually slept most of the way there, and it helped that it was a nonstop flight.  We arrived about midnight, met Adam's parents and then had to drive an hour to get to their house.  The kids went back to bed , and so did we.  It was a long day.  We were expecting cold weather while we were there, or at least colder than it was here, but most of the time we were there it was about the same temp as at home, just wet.  It rained quite a bit while we were there, that was nice.  One day there was a tornado warning all day.  The day before we left was colder and the morning that we left it was 23 when we got to the airport.  I was glad that it wasn't that cold the whole time we were there.  It was nice to see Vaughn and Kathy's house in person and to see Beth and Joseph and Jonathan.  Beth is due with the next installment at the beginning of next month.  We had some really good conversations and Nana and Papa had fun playing with the grand kids.  Adam and I went out to dinner and a movie for our 5th anniversary.  THe trip home wasn't quite as fun.  We had to get everyone up early to get to the airport.  The lines were long, we had to change planes, and didn't get to sit together.  The kids had a harder time because they were tired.  But we made it and everything is pretty much back to normal.  I got a cold while I was there and gave it to everyone else when we got home.  Adam's wasn't too bad though, which was god because he didn't have to miss work, we was only sick for a couple of days.  We were really glad we were able to go to Alabama for CHristmas and New Years.  

disneyland...finally

Finally some kind of post about Disneyland...and its only been a month.  Sarah, Cassi, (Susan) and I had alot of fun at Disneyland last month.  We stayed at the Disneyland Hotel while we were there.  There were the usual antics and joking and lots of walking around.  I was so looking forward to going to Disneyland and being able to do whatever I wanted because I was not going to be pregnant, but plans changed.  So therewere a few things I didn't get to go on, but only a few.  The Park was open till midnight on both Friday and Saturday while we were there so that was nice to stay late.  We had a very nice brunch buffet courtesy of the NCC student ministries.  We ate at Goofy's Kitchen, it was really good food.  But I have to say that the highlight of that meal was Goofy coming to our table and flirting with us.  He drew us a self portrait and everything.  I'll work on getting that scanned.

  It was Sarah's birthday on Monday, and even though we were not in CA on Monday Cassi and I still made Sarah wear a birthday pin the whole time we were there.  We thought maybe it would get us something extra but it didn't get anything but alot of random people telling her happy birthday.  My personal favorite was while were in line for Peter Pan at about 11:30PM.  This group of people a few people in front of us in line started singing happy birthday kind of quietly.  I was trying to figure out who they were singing to because no one in their group had a pin on, when they got to the name and said Sarah she freaked out because she was really tired and didn't know what was going on.  She gave them a really weird look.  I thought it was really funny.  We went on Splash Mountain kind of early in the AM.  There was no line (cause no one ever goes on it in the morning cause its too cold to be wet) so the girls said we should just go on it now.  SO we did.  We got to the first small drop, and we all got soaked... it was bad.  SO we decided that we at least better get a good picture out of all the wetness.

Sarah's least favorite ride was the elevator ride in the hotel.  She kind of had a hard time with it every time we got on it, it was kind of funny too... especially because she really liked the Tower of Terror, and thats just one big elevator.  WHen they were waiting for it (I couldn't go on that one) Cassi tried to explain it to Sarah and she said it was kind of like an elevator, that was a mistake but she liked it alot anyway.  Well I think thats all for this post on Disneyland, I'll say more later I guess.