Over The River And Through The Woods...

The snow stopped at about noon, the temperature went up about 4 degrees in less than an hour, and we realized we didn't really want to spend Christmas with just the 5 of us. Most years we look forward to spending Christmas Day as a family at home. We open gifts, play games together, watch Christmas movies and eat yummy food. But we had just had 8 snowy "Christmas Days", and it really didn't seem special anymore.

So we called Grandpa and Grandma, packed all of our stuff, and hit the road south. As usual, our road was the worst part of the drive. The roads all through town were clear and wet until we hit my parents' street. But we made it safe and sound and were able to spend Christmas with family!

the sun even came out while we were leaving

thankfully we had our new GPS to help us find our way LOL

Christmas made the boys pretty sleepy

which made for a quiet trip down

the first thing the boys did was to help Uncle Frank and

Aunt Theresa with their snowman and giant snowball

my dad is allergic to normal Christmas trees

so this year they tried a cedar tree instead

Andy and Zack were pretty excited to get Guitar Praise

And we are ALL excited to be going to Creation '09 this summer!!!

Charlie loves Thomas and he also liked using his new bag

as a mask, or a cape, or for carrying stuff around

Maggie looked beautiful in her flower princess costume

Will didn't get his gift from us in the morning because

it was stuck in Portland.