a weird but wonderful christmas.

for most of my life, i have gone to st. louis for christmas. this was the first time in.... i don't know how many years... that i stayed in kc.  stephen and i had a pretty full schedule planned... christmas eve at my sister's house with my immediate family, christmas morning at his parent's house with his immediate family, and then driving to st. louis for christmas dinner at my "aunt" carol's house where we would see everyone else.

on christmas eve it started raining... then sleeting... then snowing. and it just didn't stop! we had our christmas that night as planned and then decided to trek home.  wow, that was a scary drive! the next morning we were snowed in. it was so bizarre. we did dig ourselves out so we could go to steve's parents house, even though it was about 2-3 hours later than we planned. 

christmas is usually such a hectic time where i just never stop and this year, while it was really strange not seeing my family in st. louis, it was nice just to relax! the following day my brother-in-law picked me up and i met the rest of the family for some sledding. i did plan to go down the hill but between pushing the kids down the hill and trying to take pictures, i just never made it.  

that weekend there were s'mores and then pizza and a lot of wii and family time. then i had the reality of going back to work for 2 days and (thankfully) was on vacation the remainder of last week!