Christmas Vacation and Beyond!

Saturday was our last day at Randy's mom's house. We went to Saturday night Mass, ate dinner with some of Randy's family, and left for Tipton, (IA).  Randy's sister, Karen, lives in Tipton which is about 1 1/2 -2 hours closer to home than Randy's mom's house.  We left early Sunday morning with high hopes of getting home maybe as early as 9pm, but right away we had terrible roads. We ended up driving 45mph from Tipton, IA to about 100 miles into Ohio where it started to rain. It was a LONG drive. Once we were driving in rain, we did the math and we still wouldn't get home until about 3 am.  So we decided to stop and spend the night at Sara and Eric's (in Kent, OH) and drive the rest of the way Monday. So Randy got an extra day off work, and Max and Sophia an extra day off school.  Alex had rode home with Aunt Kathy for the fun of it and though she was driving that day she pushed on home.  (Never mind the she had started the day before in bad roads, at night, and ended up with a flat tire.  She had AAA and she and Alex got a hotel, and new tire the next day.)  The kicker was, the next day we hit snow again, making our 6 hour drive, 7 1/2.  It was good to be home! 

Timmy and George ready to go.

Randy's gag gift to Eric for completing his doctorate.  Complete with a elbow patches, hat and pipe.

Now at home enjoying Christmas gifts here.

Kara reading new stories to Henry and Timmy.

Alex, Max and Sophia using Sophia's new spirograph.

Jake (from the cartoon Jake and the Neverland pirates) fighting Lukey.

Luke taking a turn dressing up as Jake.

Making pretzel bites with her Easy Bake Oven.