home for christmas

well i guess it's time to update the blog... so here's a summary of whats been going on with us in the last month or so...

we flew home for christmas. it was so exciting. our flight home was so nice. getting to the airport was not so nice. we flew out of Cincinnati at 6 am. so we had to be to the airport by 4 am. which meant we needed to leave our house by 2 am. but because of the weather and dealing with the long term parking dallin insisted that we leave our house by 1 am. which meant no sleep for us. after leaving our house, getting gas, and approaching the freeway on ramp i realized that i forgot tates jacket and extra diapers. so we had to turn around, because two diapers are not enough to make it to bountiful utah.... and of course after the shuttle dropped us off at the airport i realized that i left the stupid diapers that we went back for in the van. what the... i was not very happy. but oh well, we just had to make do with our two diapers. luckily we made it.


we had the whole back half of the plane to ourselves. literally. dallin and tate crashed on one bench and bos and i on the other. we all slept for the majority of the flight. then we woke up with about an hour left. so tate watched a movie, and he didn't even have time to finish it before we landed. we got there early around 7:30 am and went to breakfast with both of our parents. it was so much fun. i can't believe how much i missed everyone.

it was so much fun to see all of our family and friends. tate had so much fun playing with his cousins again. we were so busy the entire time we were there! i feel like there was just one party after the next, as it usually is during the holidays. but i think it was intensified just a little bit this year.
Christmas morning was a lot of fun to see the kids open their presents.

we seriously had so much crap to take home. and we still had to ship some stuff. thank goodness for the airport carts. $3.00 well spent.

i knew our flight back couldn't possibly be any better than our flight there. but i was really hoping for it to be the same. is that so much to ask? really.

well apparently it is... i won't go into all the details but here it is in a nut shell... our flight was delayed. boston didn't sleep a wink. he had diarrhea the whole time. once we flew in we had to drive in a blizzard to our house. we got home at 4 am. and then boston was awake until 6 am. so once again a night without any sleep.
but it wasn't all bad. tate was an angel again. he slept the whole way and was a huge help with the luggage. and we had the best flight attendant ever. she was so helpful with boston. she even held his hands and played with him while i changed his bum. ugh! i'm not sure i could do that.