Christmas 2015

Christmas was a couple months ago so forgive me for the late update! We flew back to Indiana this year because we knew we couldn't drive through the night - nor did we want Annie in a car-seat for 12 hours. She can tolerate the drive to/from school but that's only 30 minutes each way. What we thought would be a quick flight into Louisville turned out to be awful! The weather in the area was stormy and come to find out, tornadic. Well, thank you Delta for trying to land us 4 times in the middle of that weather - you caused me to get sick TWICE! It was the worst flight I've ever been on and in the past couple of years, I've flown quite a bit. Thankfully, Annie slept on Duane during this 50 minute ordeal and Liv was tied up with her movie. I, on the other hand, did not do so well. Obviously we couldn't land so we diverted to Indy and then it happened that the flight crew was out of hours so they couldn't take us back to Louisville. We ended up renting a car and driving the 3 hours south to Ferdinand - we finally rolled in at 1am on Christmas Eve morning.

The rest of the visit couldn't have been better and by day 8, we almost hadn't overstayed our welcome! (Right, Mom?) Uncle Alex was kept VERY busy with playing and Liv hardly let him have any breaks or time to himself. Annie charmed everyone with her budding personality. Sadly, we were very bad with the camera and didn't capture as many moments as we should have....I really do regret this.

Christmas Eve started with Duane taking our rental car back to Evansville and bumming a ride back with Ken and Jan. We had lunch at my mom and dad's house and then opened presents with my uncle and aunt. It was pretty sad not having my Grandpa Kraus there, though! I know he would have gotten a kick out of watching Annie and Olivia.

Alex and Olivia went for a walk and she brought back a decoration for Grandma's table! 

Duane took the girls to his parents' house after the family party and i went out to the Forest with my parents to take a quick walk. It was a great day!