Hello all! Hope you all had a Merry Christmas! We sure did, although getting to Utah to have Christmas was quite the challenge! :)
We booked our flight out of Omaha, so we had to drive 2 1/2 hours to the airport, which is usually fine, but this time it just added to the length of our troubles. After boarding the plane, they made us get off due to an "incident" in Denver. Which happened to be the Continental plane that went off the runway. They closed Denver for an hour or two, and when we finally made it there, our connection to SLC had departed without us. It was getting late (10:30 pm?) and there was a 3 hour line of people in the same situation as us. Rather than sit and wait, we chose to go to a nearby hotel and sit on the phone for 2 1/2 hours so we could relax and Tate could go to bed. The lady we spoke to had no idea why they directed us to her, and she had to clear our rebooking with her supervisor, which took another 45 min. But finally we were rebooked to SLC at noon the next day. So we finally made it to SLC, wearing the same clothes that we started the trip with. :) It's funny now.
We had a great time, really just spent time at Debbie and Steve's house and enjoyed spending time together, but we did make it down the canyon to visit grandparents. It snowed buckets while we were there!
Tate was spoiled rotten for Christmas, as if he wasn't already! ;) He received about 5 different variations of Thomas the train, a DVD collection of Thomas the train, Legos, puzzles, trucks, cars and car tracks, and a Batman trike that he dances on and scoots around the house on. He also received a funny gift from Sarah and Cody and the kids: a Mr. Potato Head dressed up as Darth Vader, and his name is: "Darth Tater". Hilarious! I think he will be busy for quite awhile with all of his new acquisitions.
Cael's wrestling team had the National Duals this past weekend, and they placed 3rd. Which isn't too bad except they are capable of winning anything they compete in. They head to Oregon St this weekend to wrestle and then they are back and have Oklahoma and Oklahoma State near the end of the month. Which Uncle Cole has promised to drive back for.
Tate's 2nd birthday is coming up soon! He is definitely getting into the "terrible" part of being 2. When we got home from the Duals, he was absolutely rotten. Throwing himself on the ground and kicking and screaming like I have NEVER seen him before. Normally I would think he just needs to adjust back to being with his parents--he spent the weekend with his loving, indulgent, wonderful grandparents--but I truly think this is just a sneak peek at what 2 is all about. We went to have dinner at Wallaby's and he screamed and bawled when we tried to sit him in a booster seat, and for the first time ever, we actually packed up our food when it came and left the restaurant!! Then he did the same thing when we got home and tried to sit him in his chair. Unbelievable. I am officially overwhelmed. ;)
Hope all is well!
Tate's 2nd birthday is coming up soon! He is definitely getting into the "terrible" part of being 2. When we got home from the Duals, he was absolutely rotten. Throwing himself on the ground and kicking and screaming like I have NEVER seen him before. Normally I would think he just needs to adjust back to being with his parents--he spent the weekend with his loving, indulgent, wonderful grandparents--but I truly think this is just a sneak peek at what 2 is all about. We went to have dinner at Wallaby's and he screamed and bawled when we tried to sit him in a booster seat, and for the first time ever, we actually packed up our food when it came and left the restaurant!! Then he did the same thing when we got home and tried to sit him in his chair. Unbelievable. I am officially overwhelmed. ;)
Hope all is well!
