Christmas 2008 Memories and Madness

This Christmas and New Years we decided to do a bit of traveling...ok, ALOT of traveling. To be exact almost 40 hours of road time. Crazy!!! We celebrated Christmas morning with the girls here at the house and left by noon to head towards Kansas. We arrived at the farm around 9p.m. Christmas day. Daddy got up early Friday morning to go hunting with his cousins and best friend. He got back around 9:30a.m. and we headed towards Manhattan, Kansas which was three hours from the farm. Around 1p.m. we arrived at my Grandma and Grandpa's house. It was SO good to be up there with everyone. We got to enjoy more time with my grandparents and aunt, uncle and their kiddos then we have in a LONG time. It was such a blessing. My parents had decided to spend that time up there with us as well which was yet another blessing. We got to see a little bit of snow, go to a K-State men's basketball game with dear friends of ours, plus see two new movies which was so nice. Tripp and I took the girls on Tuesday to visit my uncle, aunt and their kiddos in Kansas City. We had so much fun with them but wished we'd had more time together. It was way too short. The kiddos had so much fun. We went to a restrautant where your food was delievered to you on a train. Which the kiddos thought was fanstastic. Everytime one of the trains came out they would start yelling and clapping that it was our food but for the first 5 times or so it wasn't. We also went to Union Station. We left there on Wednesday morning and headed back to the farm. We celebrated the New Years with Tripp's cousins and their families. It was great! It was nice to not have to worry about what time it was and what we had to do next. All of our families spent time just hanging out and getting caught up. Tripp did some more hunting and us girls watched movies and read The Shack. Which I highly recommend to EVERYONE!!! On Saturday we traveled to Eldorado to a Butler County Women's Basketball game. Tripp's cousin is their team manager. That was a lot of fun! Thank you to all of our family back home for the wonderful memories we all shared. Now that we are back in Texas though I will admit that we are EXHAUSTED. 2008 is now behind us but not forgotten. We are so excited about what God has in store for us, our family and friends and our country.