Josh, Erin, Liam and London: Merry Chistmas!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! Josh and I sure did! The kids and I left for my parent's on Friday (the 17th). Josh had to work the 20th and 21st, so he didn't get to come with us. My Dad's 54th birthday was on Saturday, so it was fun to be there to celebrate with him. On Sunday, we got together with all of my aunts, uncles, cousins, and 2nd cousins to celebrate. I got a mild case of the stomach flu on Monday night, which was no fun, but very short lived. Then on Wednesday, we packed up and drove to Josh's sister's house where we celebrated with her, her husband and their daughter, and Josh's parents and grandma. It was nice to be able to spend so much time with family!

We drove back to Iowa to spend Christmas eve night, Christmas Day, and my Birthday as a family of 4 before Josh had to head back to work on Monday (the 27th). It should be a 5 hour drive from Amy's house to ours, but it was snowing and the roads were pretty bad, so it ended up taking about 9. We got back much later than we would have liked, but still had enough time to watch a movie and eat a pizza!

Christmas day we were hungry. I had made breakfast, and was making dinner, but we had no plans for lunch, and no groceries in the house, other than those which were planned for dinner, since we had been away for so long. So we packed the kids in the car and went to the Chinese Buffet- we knew it would be open because of the movie "A Christmas Story". I called to find out their hours, and the lady acted like I was nuts for asking "Normal hours today" she said. We later found out that IHOP was open, and we should have gone there, as it is Liam's favorite place!

New Years Eve was a big deal for us...ha! We went to bed at 10:30, because Josh had to work early the next day. We did watch the Best of SNL after the kids went to bed though. We are such party animals! :)