I spent forever yesterday trying to get caught up on our blog and when I finished, it wouldn't save and it wouldn't publish except for a small portion. Oh the DRAMA! So the short story is I copied the text and I have divided the post in half in case it was too long. I still couldn't figure out how to make all of the copy the same size. aargh!!! It makes me warm and fuzzy all over again just looking for pictures and remembering our fun times.
It was so kind of Flori's family to make the 14 or so hour drive from Georgia to visit us for the holidays. Thanks, Flo. We
introduced the Christensens to Kolaches (a german thing- rolls wrapped around
sausage, cheese, or ham). We walked around the Sam Houston statue, fed
the ducks at the Sam Houston Museum home and in general had a wonderful
Christmas Eve Day. Bea's special request was to make Gingerbread Houses,
and so the girl's and I made a little Gingerbread village with even a mystery
murder. Don't ask! Just silly teenagers enjoying themselves.
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| Rob & Bea Singing Carols |
Christmas Eve we had an invitation from the Payne
family to come for a Swedish Christmas Eve. It made me think about our
Grandma Effie who loved her Swedish roots. After dinner, we all
composed and shared Christmas poems and then we sang carols around the piano
and afterward went caroling in the Payne's neighborhood. Home to bed
while visions of Sugar Fairies danced in our heads. We had a
pretty laid back Christmas morning since the Christensens had opened most of
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their
presents back home. We had Christmas Dinner at the Institute and did Face
Time with our other children throughout the day. I was actually kind of a
mess by the end of the week.
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| Houston Art Museum |
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| Neil and Flori in the Butterfly Refuge - Natural History Museum |
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| Maddie, Bea and Rob |
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| Dinosaur Fun |
We took off early the next morning for
Houston where we visited the art museum and the Natural History museum and then
headed to our hotel to chill. We swam in the pool, watched movies and
generally had a great time. On Friday afternoon after checkout, we made
our way to the Curtis's.
Flori and her cousin Marci spent lots of fun
family reunions talking boys, life, dreams, etc and were excited to see each
other. When
the Curtis's lived in Atlanta, the Christensens lived in Charlotteand they had
a couple of mini vacations together. Since they both have lots of girls
about the same ages, it was a great time for everyone. Neil and I just
kind of sat back and enjoyed the revelry. It was so nice of the Curtis
Family to host us and a great benefit was being able to attend Church with them
on Sunday and hearing Marci speak in Church. It was a rejuvenating time
for us.
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| Curtis and Christensen Families |
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| Out to Dinner with Flori and Rob |
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| Final Goodbyes |
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We
parted with Flori and Rob as they began the journey home through New Orleans,
and we headed back to Huntsville in order to meet up with my brother, John and
his wife, Lisa, and their daughter, Abigail and family in College Station which
was about the halfway point between Huntsville and Austin. It was so much
fun to be with them and get caught up on my brothers and sisters and John and
Lisa's busy lives. We felt so spoiled to see so many family members in
such a short time.
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| Dinner with the Adams Family |
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