Christmas 2010

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Pictures from our Visit with Grandpa - click here

12/26 - 12/28 - Greg's grandfather lives in Odessa, and we wanted to go out there and spend some time with him. He has stage 4 melanoma. Greg was convinced that the airport would not be to busy so we left with normal time to have about an hour from arrival to flight time. Not a good plan for the day after Christmas. We pulled up and I saw how many people were inside. I told Greg to give me all of the luggage and the kids and I would go check in and he would park. So I had a backpack, 2 roller bags, 2 car seats and a 4 year old and a 2 year old. Luckily someone offered to help us get to the line which worked out well. The line was huge - around the corner and much longer than I had ever seen. Keep in mind this was an hour before our flight was to leave and we had to check luggage. I called Greg and said we would likely not make it, but we'll try. We finally got up to the front of the line. They said we were late and they couldn't guarantee that our luggage would make the flight. We said that was fine for the luggage, but we had to take the car seats or we wouldn't be able to leave the airport. We got to security which was a short line, and discovered that we didn't have our boarding passes. Greg went back and the machine was messed up and didn't give us all of them. Once he got back we got through security fine and didn't have to long of a walk to get to our gate. As we got there they were saying the flight was a little delayed because they were waiting on the Cru and some connecting passengers. This likely is how our luggage got on the flight.

Kasey is 2 now so she has her own seat. She was excited about this for a little while. We actually sat on 2 different rows.

We enjoyed our visit with Grandpa for a few days. He's now at his house with 24hour a day caregivers who are great. Landon showed Grandpa how he kicks the soccer ball, Kasey sang Rock a By Baby to Grandpa while rocking on the rocking horse. Both kids played with the Dinosaur Train. We played football in the back yard several times to run some energy off. We also took a trip to Sherwood park which both Tony and Greg have been to many times. They just recently renovated it. The kids loved it running around for over an hour on a beautiful day.

On the plane ride back, Landon was a sleep as soon as we started to taxi. Kasey wasn't to far behind. They were tired!

12/25 - Christmas morning the kids got up about 8am which was nice. We got some breakfast and then opened presents. Santa brought the kids some luggage. He also brought Landon a big fire truck and 2 large characters from Dinosaur Train (Tiny and Buddy) - He had asked Santa for Dinosaur Train. He brought Kasey a little cookie toy that talks and counts. They were excited.

We made a huge mess of our house just like we had the night before at Grammy and Gramps.

I actually got everything on my list from Greg and the kids - that's unusual because Greg usually doesn't like what's on my list like Twilight movies or Glee CDs. This year he gave in :)

For lunch we went over to Greg's mom's house and had lunch with Grandma, Nanny, Cindy, John, Laura, Rachel and Scott. Good food as usual. We had turkey & ham with the fixings. Greg made Pecan and Apple pies. Landon helped say the blessing before we ate.

That night we took home some left overs and packed for our trip the next morning.

12/24 - Greg and I went to see Harry Potter while the kids hung out with Grandma and Pops. Then we went home to decorate cookies for Santa and get Kasey a little nap. We went to Grammy and Gramps to Celebrate Christmas. We ordered in food from Uncle Julios and Greg made Pecan pie which ended up being much less stressful on everyone. We had good food, and then we all go to open gifts. Lots of fun this year with Landon and Kasey being into opening gifts. Kasey got a big doll house with furniture and Landon got a Grill (among several other things). Both kids liked both of these.

We got home and had left the Night before Christmas book at Grammy's again so we looked it up on the internet to read it :). We were watching the Santa Tracker on the internet to convince the kids they needed to get in bed.

We did a lot of cookie making and decorating this year. Landon made cookies with grandma and decorated them. Landon made and decorated cookies and little mice (with Cherry and hershey kiss) with Grammy. We made cookies and decorated them with our friends from our street. Then on Christmas Eve we decorated cookies for Santa and for us to eat.