Voted the Worst Christmas Ever

On Christmas day I received a text from my sister at 6:30 am asking me to call her when I was up. Due to the time change I was awake of course. When I called I found out that she had missed her flight. She was suppose to fly on Delta but went to the Sky West terminal because her itinerary said Delta via Sky West. Once she was told she was at the wrong terminal she only had 15 min left to get to another terminal, check in with Delta, go through security & walk down to her gate. This was impossible since it was Christmas day and the airport was very busy. We were all really disappointed that she would not be here until 9pm instead of 12pm. She then waited at the airport from 6:30am until the early afternoon to depart to SLC. From there she would have a 4 hour layover until she arrived at home.

Christmas day was filled with keeping ourselves busy, cooking, wrapping gifts all in anticipation for the evening for Shelby to come. Evening arrived and the texts started. Delay. Ok no big deal....."Holy snow storm!".....uh...might be a big deal. And we found out it was, after boarding the plane the pilot announced the airport was closing due to the snow storm. Back to the airport terminal she went. The airport tried to clear the runways the best they could and were able to get one cleared. Back on the plane again. She waited for the plane to be deiced and refueled. Wait wait wait. An hour and a half later still having not left the runway the pilot announces there will be no Christmas for you!!! Ha ha jk. But really that's what he meant, they were not going anywhere. A backpack, a stinky airport blanket and a cold hard floor makes a lovely pillow & bed at the airport on Christmas.

After a fun filled evening at Hotel SLC Airport but really wanting to get to Hotel Shoemake, Shelby choose to fly to Spokane instead of spending another day in the airport. One more plane ride and she would be home at last. Thankfully Tyler was able to drive to Spokane to pick her up and bring her home.

We were then able to celebrated our Christmas a day late but thankful that she had finally made it home.

Shoemake's vote for the worst Christmas ever!!!

*Shelby and I both contributed to the writing of this post. I think she enjoyed it. She needs a blog.

Michael did not appreciate Santa. I sat him down and pick him up immediately (note my arm in pic.). He was terrified. He's not really one to go to anyone. This is what I expected. He enjoyed the rest of our ward Christmas party. All we did was sing and ate goodies at the end. Michael enjoyed mooching off us for treats.

Your Christmas Card

Merry Christmas! *We'll be leaving in two days to go home so I'll be cleaning and packing. Therefore I do not have enough time to throw together Christmas cards and mail them.
Hope you all enjoy your Christmas!

More teeth- finally

Michael finally has some new teeth. 3 to be exact. The first one came a couple weeks ago and was hiding in the back. They seem to be coming in out of order with that one. Two more recently showed up front. He is still missing one of his front teeth as you can see. Nice little space he's got there but I'm sure the next one will be there soon. Michael has been getting into all sorts of things lately and loves to make a mess. He finds pump containers most fascinating lately. He'll hold the bottle pump side down and bang it on the ground. He usually manages to get something out. Lovely.

Hope you all had a lovely weekend. We pretty much just hung out at home. College football season tends to keep us at home. I wasn't much involved in the watching though. I've been busy reading Breaking Dawn. I can't believe how quickly I'm reading this one and it's the longest. That goes to show that I am enjoying it thus far.

Michael's favorite word lately

Michael's favorite word lately has been papa (puppy). It's funny when he'll just start saying it out of the blue. We love taking him to the pet stores to see all the puppies. We won't be getting one at Michael's request. Michael has mostly been walking this past week. Sorry about the quality of the video, sometimes he just won't hold still.