Christmas travels 2009

We had a long journey ahead of us as we left town on Friday the 18th. We ran into traffic in Milwaukee, but ended up making it as far as Bloomington Illinois before we called it a night. Our second day took us to Texarkana Texas and Sunday afternoon we made it into Houston. We do not usually make our trip into three days, but leaving after school on Friday made it necessary.

Gorgeous weather greeted us when we arrived. Not long after our arrival we took the kids to a local park in my parents neighborhood. The park was a much needed outing after being cooped up in a car for such a long period of time. Needless to say, I have no pictures of this outing as I had not unpacked my camera!

The next day was also gorgeous, so we picked up lunch and headed to another nearby park for playtime and animal visiting...this park also has a zoo of sorts.

Family picnic of none other than Chick-Fil-A. Can I tell you how much I miss that place?

Abuela and Ainsley on the swings...
Aidan the king of rope climbing. Ainsley did well on this tower as well until she slipped and got a bit of rope burn.

Feeding the ducks. The little zoo has all kinds of animals...exotic birds, bison, emu, rhea, pigs, goats, sheep etc. Really a nice strolling park. We spent much of the afternoon here soaking up the sunshine.

Our next day in town was a bit rainy so we stopped by the local outlet mall to do some strolling, playing at an indoor playground, and visiting the big man. We do teach our children that Christmas is to celebrate the birth of our Lord, but we also allow them to believe in Santa. They will learn soon enough that he is not real.

That is all I have time for right now. I apologize for taking so long to post. I spent the early part of the week catching up. Laundry, clearing out boxes, going through mail, paying bills, all the things that are put on hold while one is out of town. Then toward the end of the week I was caught up and recuperating from a cold that I picked up at my in-laws house which became significantly worse with the return to the cold weather. Actually, we were quite cold in the Dallas area while we were there, but not nearly as cold as it was here when we arrived. More on that later...maybe this weekend. I still have Christmas decorations that need to be taken down and put away, but I have been waiting until this congestion was a bit better and my house once again some sort of organized after our trip. Just taking it slow, slow, slow...

I have the neighbor kids over today after school...I have been putting the play date off all week due to sickness on my part and my need to get things reorganized. I could not put them off any longer. The child across the street asks to come over every day. I get very tired of that. Oh well, enough of that pity party. Our situation with them has improve dramatically so I can't complain. I will keep praying for that family though. More another time. Blessings everyone and have a great weekend. I will plug our football team here though...Go Cowboys! Now hopefully I have not jinxed them!