Home for the Holidays!

The holidays this year, couldn't have gone better! David and I celebrated our Christmas together the night before we flew home to see family! Since David wasn't home for Christmas last year, we decided to really do this one up right!





The next morning, we got up reeeaaally early and headed to the airport to stand in a huuuuuge line at the Southwest terminal. Luckily, the line moved along rather swiftly and it was quite entertaining to see the faces of people walking in and realizing, "THAT is the check-in line?!?" Our flights went great without a single delay and David's dad picked us up from the airport and off we went! We made a few stops before meeting up with him mom for dinner in Lee's Summit and while we did, it started to snow!! David had hoped for snow while we were home so he was one happy camper...here's a pic of him with his dad and the snow!

After spending a day with the Gardners, we headed towards Cole Camp to spend a night at Balke farm!




The next night, we were able to meet up with some of our friends up in the city at Jack Stack BBQ - yum!! It was great seeing everyone there and the food was great! Afterwards we went around to some bars hoping to find some live music but quickly learned that was not going to happen on a Tuesday night. We did get to see the beautiful lights on the plaza though!!








We had heard the weather was supposed to get really bad so we decided to bump up our trip to Moberly a day. So after a few hours of driving, we arrived to celebrate Christmas with my mom's side of the family!





After Moberly, we headed back and spent several days at mom's house loving on our nephews, eating yummy food, and celebrating Christmas. On Christmas Eve, we went to church to go see Aiden perform as a shepard in the Christmas play...he was so cute!











After saying the dreaded good-byes, we loaded up our stuff Christmas day and headed over to the Gardner's to celebrate with them!












On our last day, we all went to El Vaquero for some lunch before everybody hit the road. Matt and Pat were able to meet up with us which was great! We all enjoyed some yummy lunch and sadly our trip was coming to an end.


We were able to spend a total of 10 days at home this year and we enjoyed every second of it! The time always goes by way too fast, so we've already started thinking about when we can go home again!!

We hope everyone had a wonderfully blessed holiday season!!
Love,
David & Lisa