Merry Christmas...a few weeks late!

Tony and I had a wonderful Christmas despite the terrible weather. We had originally planned to leave Christmas Eve and if we did I don't think we would of made it. We left Austin at 5 Wednesday night. It had been snowing for a couple of hours in Austin, big flakes. I-90 was terrible. I wanted to turned around even before we got to Albert Lea. Once on 35 we were good until we hit Iowa. There we hit the freezing rain.I think it took like 3 and1/2 hours to get to Ames while it normally takes 2. We were going 35 most of the time. Thank God I wasn't of driving. There were people in the ditch all over. But we made it into Alma at 2 in the morning. The whole trip only took around 9 hours which is only an hour and a half more than normal.

Alma got pounded with the white stuff on Christmas Eve. We had some eventful occurrences on the way back from church both times. :)

Christmas day we headed over to Aunt Elaine and Uncle Danny's house. (Which the new remodel looks fabulous by the way). There we enjoyed a wonderful meal, some bingo, and a joke on Duane. Duane, our family wouldn't be the same if we couldn't make fun of you :)

I am truly blessed to have such wonderful people in my life.

Christmas day night, we headed to my mom and dads for gifts because we weren't able to make it in the morning due to the circumstances. Mom and dad spoiled us! Gift cards to Home Depot, Tony has a real gable to hang up his deer so he doesn't have to use the contraption he made, and I got the entire series of Dr. Quinn Medicine woman!!! I was so excited!!! Thanks again mom and dad!!!

The next day we got to see Adam and Bailey and they opened their gifts. Bailey found a lady bug after the presents and that kept her occupied for a good 20 minutes. She is so much fun! After this we headed to Grandma Sally's for another great dinner and some funny conversations.

We didn't get to really hang out with friends while we were back. Darn weather. Oh well, Michael did stop by when he was finally able to get out of his house and it was nice to meet up with him.

While we had to do somethings this Christmas "out of order" we had a wonderful time just being home with our families and we can thank you all enough for all the support, encouragement, and love you have given us. One thing is for sure, many, many memories were made this Christmas.

Tony got some new insulated waders for trapping.