Christmas in Iowa

We spent another fab Christmas in the great state of Iowa with the fam. We left late Thursday night, stopped in Dallas to sleep, and then traveled what-should-have-been-only-12-but-really-took-15 hours because of snow on Christmas Eve. We got to my parents' house grumpy, tired, and and starved. We didn't do much but eat, chat for a bit, then go to sleep. But my mom did show off her fancy new flip cam that she got for an early present. I was jealous... until I opened my first present Christmas morning! I was greeted with this precious thing!

Which can be blamed for the lack of pictures of the trip. Instead I filmed everything-and I do mean everything: deer in the back yard, Giselle chasing wild turkeys, sledding, James squatting while holding my brother and sister on his back, EVERYTHING.

We stayed for nearly a week, which still didn't seem long enough. We saw movies and ate lots of food. We went shopping and played video games. Oh, and we had mad drama with Lily. On our last day we get home from sledding and all of a sudden people are hollering at me to "Call a vet! Call a vet! Somethings wrong with Lily's leg!" So we all freak out while Lily whails louder than a dog her size should and I call several vets, none of which actually have a veterinarian working because they're on vacay. Eventually the poor thing stops screaming but wouldn't put any weight on her back right leg. So we carried her everywhere for the next 24 hours, during which Giselle got really jealous and Lily got really spoiled. We're pretty sure she just pulled a muscle (from our extensive online research) while she was playing with James. We also found out that she's a GENIUS because weeks after the incident she would lift her leg whenever she wanted to be picked up! Who knows how long she was trying to milk our sympathy.

Anyways, on our way back from Iowa we stopped in Austin to stay the night and see new baby Savannah. She is so precious. We got back from on New Year's Eve at about 7, watched a little tele, and were asleep by 10:30. Ha!