Minnesota Christmas

This year we flew to Minnesota for a 10-day vacation. In true mid-west style, we housed the 3 of us, my parents, sister, and 2 dogs in my sister's one bedroom apartment. We had mattresses, a pack-n-play, an unfolded futon, and air mattress all over the place! We got into town at midnight before Christmas Eve - this was our 1st time flying with Stinker ever. Our plane was full but the person assigned to our middle seat either didn't show up for the flight or took one look at us and ran...either way we got the whole row to ourselves for the flight out there! Stinker was kept occupied by ipod games, and baby einsteins on the laptop. He didn't cry at all! Once we landed he adjusted to the time change easily which we were not expecting.

We hung out with family for the first few days spending our time eating, playing games, and watching football. We attended my sister's church for Christmas Eve service, a Christmas Day movie, and opened presents together. Then we packed a lot of friends and driving into a week. We traveled as far north as Sartell, MN and as far south as Nevada, IA. We got to meet our friend's new babies, and puppies, and tour their fabulous new homes. It was so refreshing to reconnect with our life-long friends.

This morning as we met with some friends and family for a farewell breakfast it came to our attention that Sun Country had changed our flight time ---- eerrr I mean flight DAY. We had actually missed our flight which we were told was switched to yesterday. In what other industry can you shell out $1000 bucks for a product only to be given a different product and charged extra for it?? Its like ordering a $1000 red purse and being delivered a black wallet while being charged an extra $300 for it...according to the agent we got a "good deal" too. Ok ok I'm over it.

We were flown into LAX at virtually the same time as we were scheduled to fly into San Diego, so with an extra couple hours of drive time and a couple extra hundred dollars we made it home.

More details of our trip to come....

Here are a few pics from our time:

(opening presents at Auntie Snacks)

(Speedy's move that as a a@# chew from the MIL)

(Beeka and I friends since 5th grade now all grown up...)

(Our husbands were roommates at Bethel and we are all knocked up at the same time)