Home Sweet Home

As promised here's a recap of the last day of our trip. Well we are back from Flagstaff. Back to reality. Back to our home. The drive home was beautiful and full of strange weather.There was dust storms and rain off and on and then perfectly sunny weather at the end. The kids of course did awesome the entire way home. They are pros at this point when it comes to traveling.
We woke up about 8 this morning to meet the family for breakfast before heading out. Breakfast was delicious. Of course neither of the kids wanted to eat with the snow waiting for them outside. We managed to get them to eat pretty decently and then out we went. The kids got all bundled up in their new winter gear and all but ran out the door. It was cold but not cold to where you couldn't enjoy all the snow around you. The kids ran around, threw snow balls at each other, Paul, and I, Kailee made a snow angel, Justin kept running and the falling/jumping into the snow. They loved it! They had so much fun I thought they were never going to want to come in. I was surprised to see both kids getting hit by snow balls and taking it with stride and throwing them right back. They made sure and got their uncle Jeff and cousins Cami and Jayden as well as their daddy. Thank goodness I had my cameras. I only got hit a few times LOL. Justin loved throwing snow at Kailee and laughing his evil new ha ha ha laugh. And Kailee for payback decided to stuff his back pockets full of snow, which I didn't find out until we came in and JP sat on my lap. Talk about cold! Once inside the kids played with their cousin Cami, while the adults played skipbo. Of course kids will be kids and their restlessness soon took over and trouble they found. Crawling under the table after their cousin Cami and pulling straws off the table was a sure way to get on my bad side. I know it seems as if I'm a strict mom, but some things just are not acceptable in public. For one floors are disgusting and full of germs, and for two crawling under tables is disrespectful. I don't pack toys and books for hotel rooms, because when we go somewhere my theory is we entertain ourselves as a family and I do not rely on toys and books to keep them busy so Paul and I can do our own thing. Needless to say they were bored and wanted attention, so I couldn't focus on the game and found myself not enjoying myself. No biggie the game was soon over and the hard part of saying good bye was here. It was a quick good bye since we had all been delayed due to the weather and were already off our schedules.
After saying good bye and loading up we took our time and drove into Flagstaff just enjoying the snow filled mountains and ground. It was beautiful. Absolutly beautiful. I actually wanted to stay and just play in the snow some more. LOL But we had to get back. We only stopped once and that was so Kailee could go potty and we could get some lunch. Like I mentioned earlier the kids did great. When we pulled up into the drive way they were deff ready to get out of the car. There was a get together on base, but I opted not to go and stay home with the kids. I've been having tightness in my chest and chest pains since last night and the kids were exhasted. After some dinner and a nice hot bath they were out. JP has a slight runny nose, so I'm waiting to see if it turns into anything. Why I'm still up I have no idea. I am so tired and in pain it's not even funny. I need to get to bed because we already promised the kids we would put up and decorate the tree in the morning.