{Christmas I}

This is the first of many posts about our Christmas trip.

We flew out Tuesday Dec 15th. Our flight was delayed by an hour or two. That was not fun.

The movies we tried to download to the ipad didn't actually download. They were tired and grumpy and taking silly pictures didn't even make them happy.

  

Don't let these smiles fool you, the flight was not pleasant.

There was a brief amount of calm in the middle of a storm, but we were all glad when the flight was over.

And then after that rather unpleasant flight the conveyer belt carrying our luggage in Houston decided to turn off. And no one but exhausted passengers noticed. So we all sat there for an hour expecting the dumb machine to spit our luggage out until a couple of us finally got annoyed enough to go find people at the front check-in desk (because there was no one working for Frontier anywhere near baggage claim). Then someone just came downstairs and turned a key and the machine was back on. SERIOUSLY?!?

Our first stop was to Mimi's classroom! Evette was especially thrilled to visit and see where Mimi teaches school. 

We were in Houston for about 3 weeks - so we split our time between our two families. We first stayed with Sean's parents. 

Wednesday was a lazy day and we just hung out with Gigi mostly while Sean worked.

That evening we drove around the Prestonwood neighborhood to look at the lights. It's an adorable little neighborhood that does amazing decorations! Each little street has a different theme and there's awards for best house, best street, best door, best mailbox, etc... It was a super fun drive, well, at least for the grown ups. Evette cried until she fell asleep and then Miriam cried when she couldn't fall asleep. But we grown ups had a great time!