The Trip --- lotsa photos!

Whew! What a trip! We went to visit my family in SC over the holidays. We were there from the 15th until the 27th. We had a great time! I moblogged a good bit, so you can go through the past 2 weeks worth of blogs to see some of the stuff, but here's the run down and other photos (I also have some video I'll be posting next week assuming Tom gets it off of the camera for me!)

The trip there went well. We left in the evening and drove straight through. We hit NASTY fog from Shreveport all the way through Birmingham, which I, of course, ended up driving through. It put us 3 hours behind schedule, but I'd rather arrive alive than worry about the time issue! Ha!

The kids found some pine cones and stuff in the backyard at my family's house and made Christmas trees (their idea):







My niece, Marie, had cut her own hair so I offered to take her to lunch and get a haircut. Her mom wanted her hair short and Marie was NOT liking this idea. I got the bright idea to tell her that maybe if it was short we could make it spiky and put green in it! (Yeah, try finding green hair spray in December - love Sally's!). So, I had to follow through and the kids made their own little punk band!




Tom, Marcy and I took the three oldest kids to see the light trail at James Island Park. It was awesome and I wish I had thought to take some more pictures...



The first 4 pictures are of the loot Santa left! He came! He found us all the way in SC! The last 2 are the gifts to the kids from Tom and I.






Some other random shots:






We had a good time, but boy was I glad to be home! It was odd walking into a house that had been closed up for 2 weeks! It seemed almost dream-like and dreary. It was interesting to "feel" and see the house come alive and warm up as the kids starting moving stuff around, bringing in their toys, playing and having dinner. I really missed my office too. This is where I spend a good chunk of my life. It's my space, all mine! :-) Everything belongs in a certain place and darn it, it's there too! Thanks for having us, everyone in SC!

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Now for what's really important here! The loot!

Jamie got: (from us) a Robopet, (from Marie/Michael) a room raider plane, (from Granny Grits/Marcy) a Spiderman place setting and PJs, and (from Santa) a Gameboy Micro with 3 games, a Roboreptile, a remote-controlled dragon, books, movies, games, misc crap.

Cassie got: (from us) Scamps Fur-Real dog, (from Marie/Michael) a dress up Ariel bridal gown, (from Granny Grits/Marcy) a Dora place setting and PJs, and (from Santa) a Dora Magic Castle with all the stuff in it, twin babies with twin stroller, crib, and swing/highchair, books, games, movies, misc crap.

I got: A bluetooth keyboard for my Treo, some Cube World guys, a Pink Floyd movie, INXS cd.

Tom got: A Nintendo Gameboy DS-Lite and 3 games. He also got some gag gifts (because I'm mean and hid the gameboy and games until after he had seethed - it was SO funny) - a vaccumn cleaner, some oven mitts (they are cute, they say "Sugar Daddy" on them), a Santa mug, and some xmas boxers.