Journey To A Family: December 2010

Polar Express

This past weekend, my mom took me and Addy and my sister and her kids to Palestine, Texas to ride the Polar Express train. You ride a train from Palestine depot to the "North Pole." The kids are all dressed in their PJs. During the ride, they play music from the movie and pass out hot cocoa and cookies. Then they read the book. Once we reached the North Pole Santa boarded the train and visited each kid, handing them bells. On the ride "home" we sang Christmas carols.

The kids and the adults had an absolute blast.

Waiting to board the train

The Conductor pucnhing our tickets

Dancing

Waiting for Santa

Scott's Triathlon

In October Scott competed in his first triathlon. He did amazing. Addy and I had fun getting up early (along with my parents and sister's family) and watching daddy in his race.

Crossing the finish line

She drove her car from heaven

Addy and I were laying down the other day getting ready for naptime. I just started talking with her and asked "Where do babies come from?" She said "From heaven." My heart melted a bit and I told her she was right. They come from heaven and grow in their mommy's belly. She said "Yes, but not yours because your belly is broken." (We have talked about me not being able to have babies because my belly is broken.) I said, "Yes. So, do you know how you came to mommy and daddy?" She shook her head and said "I drove my car from heaven."

Family Pictures

Thanksgiving

This year we travelled to Arkansas the weekend before Thanksgiving to visit with Scott's family. We were delayed a bit because on Friday (the day we were supposed to leave) we got home from work/school and Addy was acting really strange and tired (which is not normal). I felt her head and she was HOT. So we called this great service we have through Scott's work -- within one hour of calling we had a nurse practitioner at our home and she diagnosed Addy with strep throat. She made up the antibiotics and handed us a kit that included chicken soup, Tylenol, Gatorade and some other things and we were set -- not even having to leave the house. It was great.

Anyway, so we left Saturday morning and spent a couple of days in Arkansas visiting. We visited with the entire family Sunday after church and celebrated "Christmas" with Scott's family. Then Monday we visited the Little Rock zoo with Mimi. We were also able to catch Hannah's basketball game one night. We had a really great time visiting Arkansas.

We headed home Wednesday so we could be home to start a home improvement project that we have been planning almost since the day we moved in to our home 2 years ago. We are (meaning Scott with help from my dad and Dwayne) is converting part of our attic into a new playroom, and eventually a media room. Hopefully we will be done within the next couple of weeks/months and I will post pictures.

Arkansas Christmas

Talking to the birds

Halloween

My Beautiful Tinkerbell

Disney Take 2

We went back to Disneyworld September 15-22 with three other families from our church (one family being my sister's). This trip was different, but also a lot of fun. Although we had a lot of fun in April, it was so much more fun to have friends to travel with. Addy also had more fun because she had people her age to play with. Also this trip, Addy was tall enough to ride some of the rides she wasn't able to ride in April (like Splash Mountain, Thunder Mountain and her favorites Test Trak and Soarin'). We were also able to go to a special Halloween party that takes place at Disney during this time of year. It's called Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party. Everyone dresses up and they have trick-or-treating, a special Halloween parade and a special Halloween fireworks show. We all had a blast and Addy can't stop talking about going back. I think it will be a while though. Mommy and Daddy are "Disneyed out".