Sunday~A few more hours, then the parties over. What a great time.

SLEDDING ON THE FROZEN LAKE.

I need to take Chuck E Cheese home with me. Will he fit in the car?

Our kids, with their kids.

And they're Out. Got a text & this picture that K was out before they hit I-80 and Boo was out shortly after.

Saturday Night~More presents, more fun.

The Papa's bought this cute hat for "K" in a boutique we were shopping in, then "K" showed up with hats for them also. Great minds think alike.

Opening presents from Maycee.

Saturday~K's birthday party at Chuck E Cheese's

Friday~Baby Maycee arrives today and we're having Soup and Santa

Fri Night after Santa. Time to play.

THURSDAY! K'S 3RD BIRTHDAY.

Every night the little boys wanted to play football. They did the Tebow after a good play. We thought Chels was doing the Tebow too, but she was looking at her computer.

K spent his 3rd birthday going to his Neurologist in the morning and having an MRI at Primary Children's Hospital in the afternoon. Wendell, Carole, Chels, Boo, Tom and I all met Clay, Tara & K at Gateway for his birthday dinner. We went to Z Tejas. The plan was for a horse and carriage ride to see the Temple lights also but it was cold and the line was long. So we just did a drive by.

WEDNESDAY~MIMI DAY

 CAN WE PLEASE  OPEN JUST ONE PRESENT???? WE WERE GOOD  BOYS TAKING FAMILY PICTURES!

 CHELS LET THEM OPEN THE REMOTE CONTROL CARS FROM HER

STORYTIME IN MIMI'S BED

Tuesday~Killian's here and he has a secret.

Clay, Tara and Killian drove in today from Great Falls. They asked if we all wanted to meet at Tapanyaki's for dinner. K made us all a snowman picture with a mommy, a daddy, and two little snowmen. We still didn't get it until Tara took off K's hoodie and we saw his t shirt. We're so excited for a new baby. New hope for the New Year.

K liked Mimi's Nutcracker.

An Apple and a Nap

Boo: "Mimi, I can't tell you what your Christmas present is but I'll give you one hint~ it has an APPLE on it" :)

Killian: "Mom can I watch Caillou?", Tara told him No he'd watched enough TV today.
Killian: "Mom, can you go take a nap and I can watch Caillou?"

Quote from the move The Descendents last night

"Give your kids enough money to do something, Don't give them enough to do nothing."

Elf in a Boot & Handmade Gifts

Gavin found his Elf on a Shelf in his snow boots.

Every Christmas I get this urge to make handmade gifts. We decided to buy Tom's agents spa gift certificates  and Tom wanted to put them in an envelope. I wanted to make them more special. So I bought these paper mache stars, painted them, antiqued them, got bells & red tuelle and made these cute little boxes. I shopped at 5 stores to find everything (never did find the antique jingle bells I wanted), spent several hours and my desire to make something handmade has now been fulfilled for the season. Tom told me they're just going to get thrown away. I say it's all in the presentation. And Tom did admit these were pretty cute.

From Sand to Snow~Papa and Boo tried to build a snowman but the snow wasn't sticking very good. They also went sledding today.

Reasons to get a direct flight home from an Int'l destination

We always fly home direct from Mexico, but the only direct flights are on Saturdays, and we wanted to come home on Thursday. So I decided flying through Den wouldn't be bad. Worse case scenario we would miss our flight & spend the night with mom and dad.
After our peaceful sunrise morning and packing & one last breakfast, and one last lunch and one last walk on the beach our shuttle service arranged for us to leave at 1:15 for our 4:40 flight. This is so early, I'm sure they're in cahoots with the CUN airport restaurants and shops. Once we got to the airport our flight was an hour late due to bad weather in Den. So we found a nice spot in Margarittaville and got on the WiFi and played on the computer and ate chips & guacamole. We had a nice flight, but knew we only had 1 hour and 20 min to catch our flight home from DEN to SLC.
Once our plane landed we ran to customs. I swear this was at least a mile. We were the first ones there, then we had to wait for our luggage to re check it. Got our luggage and we were told we missed our flight. So we're negotiating if Frontier was paying for a hotel or a taxi ride to Grandma's and thinking that would be nice to. . Just as our adrenaline had calmed down they hollered for us and said our plane was late and there was a chance we could still make it if we ran, do not stop anywhere, just run. So we took off again. The plan was to change in Den out of my skirt, tank top and flip flops and we didn't have time. Did I mention it was 10 degrees in DEN? So we ran from one side of the DEN airport to the other (I think this was 1.5 miles) in flip flops to go through security again, hop the train and find our gate. We made it just as the last people were boarding. We had to pee, but no time for that. We got on the plane took a breath, looked around and it was the same plane we had just rode in from CUN to DEN, only it was moved to this gate. Couldn't we have just stayed on???  After all that, our plane sat there for another hour due to problems with luggage and people missing flights. We finally got home a little after one am. Happy to be sleeping in our own beds. Another lesson learned.