Christmas in California

MERRY CHRISTMAS! (a few days late) This Christmas, Keith and I were lucky enough to make it down to California to visit his side of our family. We got home this morning and I am so sad. Now we have cold weather, less family, school, work, and things that are just not as fun as being with family. Don't get me wrong-we love our life but trips to California and Texas (where my side of the family is)are just an awesome luxury. On Christmas Eve we got to go to DISNEYLAND!

It was fanastic.We were there with my in-laws, Dave and Lisa, my brother and sister in-law, Katie and David, and my other brother and sister in-law, Chris and Beth, and their 3 year-old daughter Penny. She's the one on Keith's shoulders in the picture above. In the picture with the storm trooper it's Keith with Dave and David. Katie and Chris are Keith's siblings. He's the baby. We had such a fun time. It wasn't even that busy. I've never been to Disneyland at Christmas and it was awesome. The decorations and the Christmas parade and it was just all great. The next morning we went over to Chris and Beth's to watch Penny open her presents from Santa. When she walked out of the room Beth said, "Penny go look what Santa brought you!" However, the first thing she did was run and jump into Keith with a big hug. He loved that. We had fun watching everyone open their presents and got so many too! We are so dang lucky! I could list them all but it would be a very long list. We were thrilled though. It was sad to leave and come back home last night and also sad to not see my side of the family, but it is nice to be in our home together again. A little bit of an unpleasant surprise upon arriving home- a pipe burst while we were gone! Keith is pretty sure the water is coming from our downstairs neighbors, but we think she moved out. No one has been there for a while so we're not exactly sure how that's going to get taken care of. Hopefully it's not too terrible of a fix and it will be alright. On a good note, I am proud to report that all of our laundry is sorted and everything is unpacked and put away. I did not think that would happen that fast. I was on fire. That was an EXTREMELY brief synopsis of our trip but my brain is a little tired. Looking forward to tomorrow- one of my best friends is visiting and Utah and I get to see her tomorrow!