Road Trip

We had our first major road trip over the Thanksgiving holiday, trekking 1200 miles up to frigid Wisconsin.  Jodi's mom had passed away so we were heading up for the services for her.  Not why you would want to go, but the silver lining was reuniting family and Jodi's family getting to meet and spend time with Kayleigh & Michael for the first time. 

Road trips are great as you get to eliminate the rest of the real word and just spend a couple days over-packed in a car without the distractions of a typical day, each junk food, and see how flat the Midwest is!

The kids had a great trip up and we were blessed by snow the night we arrived (the kids have really been wanting snow).  We had weeks of snow when we arrived in Ukraine to finalize our adoption, and K & M are accustomed to snow every year and I'm sure plenty of it.  Our others, well, not so lucky, I think we've gotten a quick bit of it 3 times since we moved back to Texas in 2001.  Anyway, the kids got snow fun all week because that stuff don't melt when it's 22 degrees!

Our Fab 5 got to reunite and spend a ton of time with their 4 cousins up there and they all got along very well.  Honestly, we just didn't see them a whole lot because they were always hanging out playing in the snow, gaming, watching movies, and anything else they could think of.  It was a great time for them to connect with more of their new family.

We're back home in Texas now and the cold followed up, so it's below freezing here as well, but no snow for us to play in :(  Fear not, it'll be back up in the warm range before we know it!

Now we're getting into Christmas mode, the tree is up and we're decorating it today, and the kids are getting excited as the holiday approaches.  Kayleigh is a Hallmark channel Christmas movie - holic, so we're getting our (over)fill of the movies.  Some are cute, some are truly awful, but we are truly blessed to have her here to make us watch them to begin with!  Michael has developed quite an interest in American football so at least I have that to counter balance a bit :)

This will be the wrap up for their first full year here in America, we are so glad they are here!