Crazy Christmas…

Christmas started out as normal at our house.  We went to the candlelight service at church on Christmas Eve.  Then we went to a friend’s house for dinner and card games.  We usually eat at a nice restaurant first but decided to stay in this year in order to enjoy each other’s company more.  Then came the card games.  I’m really not into card games, while others on the group are quite obsessed with them.  So of course I won 2 times out of the 5 games.  How does that happen?  I got the two gift cards that I contributed as my prizes.  Go figure…

Christmas morning happens later and later in the morning when you have teenagers.  I admit that I am happy about that.  It’s actually quite nice.  We opened all of our our gifts, which actually included a few surprises for the kids.  That was fun!  We had our normal Christmas lunch.  I cried a few tears over missing my mom.  Then we watched the snow fall…  And we all wondered what would happen to our flight scheduled for 6:25 pm…
We got all packed up for our trip to Florida.  We planned to be in north Florida for 3 nights to see my husband’s dad and then south Florida to see my dad and family.  We were at the airport an hour before the scheduled flight.  After about 45 minutes our gate was changed from C20 to A18.  If you’ve ever been in the Dallas airport then you know this is not an easy feat.  And to top it off the Skylink was closed due to the bad weather.  Dallas does not know how to handle bad weather of any kind.  After arriving at the new overcrowded gate my phone kept updating us telling us that the flight was delayed to a later and later time.  Finally at 8:00 pm we were able to board.  Luckily we were in first class for the flight and all of the crying babies and toddlers were in the rear.  I really felt bad for those poor parents and kids as the time dragged on for 2 1/2 hours while we waited for our pilot.  At that point they announced that our flight was now cancelled due to the pilot (who had not shown up yet) being on the clock for too many hours that day to fly our flight too.  No pilot = no flight.  Everyone piled off and had to stand in line to get rescheduled.  We gave our big bag of travel snacks to a family traveling with seven small children.  No luggage in sight…  We currently have no idea where our luggage is.  Nor does American Airlines.  It might be in Dallas.  It might be in north Florida…  We just might get to know where it is sometime this evening.  We are now scheduled to go to Florida on Friday morning cutting our vacation in half.  We are just skipping the north Florida part and praying that our luggage finds us in south Florida.

I thought I’d share a few of our Christmas photos with you:

Christmas Eve service

Cirque Dreams Holidaze show in Dallas last week

So happy to be awake at 10 am on Christmas morning

Someone got juggling balls in his stocking.  Not bad!

Surprised by the tickets for Pink concert

Huge surprise ~ new iphone 5

Thrilled with his Apple tv device

Hubby was given some family memorabilia.  VERY cool!!

3 happy campers

The Christmas day snow that wreaked havoc on our Christmas travel plans