Well, we're no good at keeping up on our blog. So New Year's Resolution = post more often!
Here we go: For Christmas this year we made a trip to Michigan to see the family. We were way excited, partially for the break from work and school, but more because we haven't seen the fam back there for over a year! Let's just say that the excitment made the four hours in the airplane at the Salt Lake terminal, beside complete stangers, that much easier. The excitment that we'd eventually get to relax and hang out with family helped when we spent the night in Eagan, MN and then flew out through Pittsburg(???) to finally end up in Detroit heading to Jon and Kristine's Tuesday at 9pm.
But all that out of the way, we had a great time! We spent the first night at Jon and Kristine's. We talked to Jon (and Katey) til 2am, and then slept in the next morning. We were thrilled the next day to play with the kids and get to know Katey better. It was surprising how quickly those kids opened up to us. The second Kristine came home from the library with them, they were sharing books with us, and "chasing" us around the room! It really was so much fun! After quiet time (which I'm totally gonna try to implement when we have kids!) we got to play with the kids and Jon. Carter made us "hot chocolate", and Rachel showed us her princesses, and Katey, well Katey was just everywhere! She is so full of personality!
That night was Dad's birthday, and so we went to the Piston's game at the Palace. We had quite a group! Jon and Kristine, Greg and I, Dad, Mike, Dave and Caleb, and Jason and Tyler. It was something that, since the moment Greg and I knew we were going to Michigan, Greg had wanted to do. It was so fun with everyone there. The Piston's played great and won! Then Greg and I went home with Dad, Mike, Dave and Caleb. When the game got out, at about 10:45pm, it was snow/raining. It was gross, and cold. We hurried to the car, which was a) from Arizona, and b) iced over. We didn't have an ice scraper, so we used credit cards and cups to scrape Dave's windows. Greg and Jon ran our bags from Jon's car to Dave's and then we were on our way! It took us an hour to go about a mile on a two lane road, from the Palace to the freeway. Because the weather was so bad, we didn't get home until about 2:30am. Then we went straight to bed.
The rest of our week in Michigan we spent playing Wii with all the nieces and nephews, doing puzzles, playing Wheel of Fortune, and Greg even took them sledding. I also got to play games with April, Dave and Caleb. We had a blast! It was so much fun to spend time with family that we don't get to see often. I guess that's part of what's so great about the holidays.
Monday morning came way too soon. It felt like we'd just arrived, and then we were leaving.
We're still enjoying the break, and I think niether of us are excited to go back to work and school, but this is Greg's last semester. We have mixed feelings about it. It's stressful to have to make a decision about what to do and where to go, but exciting to know that we're progressing, getting older, more responsible, and hopefully more mature. Hopefully :)
