CRAZY CHRISTMAS VACATION!!!

We had a wonderful yet crazy, hectic, wild trip to spend Christmas with my family in Woodinville, Washington. We were going to leave for the airport on Wednesday in plenty of time but Memphis pulled a heavy glass cereal bowl off the arm of the couch and it fell and hit him hard in the forehead and he got a huge goose-egg bump and bruise. I started getting worried because he would not stop crying so I called the pediatrician and they just said to give him some tylenol and put ice on it. I felt so bad but he ended up being ok. We then hurried to the bank and gas station and then remembered we forgot some stuff and a binky for Memphis (which he never actually used cause he doesn't like binky's anymore)

so we got to the airport at 5 and our flight was scheduled to leave at 5:55. There was a really long line to check-in so I worried we wouldn't

make it to the gate in time but luckily the line went fast. While waiting

in line I remembered I forgot Memphis's birth certificate to prove he was under 2 years old so he could fly for free. I hassled with them and they believed me that he looked under 2 so they let

him go. We hurried over to security and luckily there was no line. As we were going through Danny kept beeping and he had to keep removing stuff. Then they told us they needed to look

through his bag because of something suspicious. They

started to pull everything out and

really search so I grabbed Memphis and the rest of our stuff to hurry to our gate because we were at the far end and it was almost time to leave. While I was walking to the gate,

dropping everything (except Memphis), strangers trying to help me, Danny text me and told

me they found a .22 bullet in his bag and he had to go to jail overnight. Ha ha Danny not funny.

They just had him sign a bunch of paperwork, they

confiscated the bullet, and we got to the gate as they were boarding. It was not a full flight so Memphis got his own seat and was really good :) We got to my parent's house and then I realized that we forgot a bag at home with all our toiletry stuff so my mom went and found a

store open at 10:30 at night so we could have toothbrushes and baby tylenol.

Christmas Eve we spent at my cousin's house with all my relatives. We had a great dinner, opened presents, and had fun visiting. We dressed up Memphis in his new Santa outfit his aunt Alicia bought him. He didn't like wearing the hat that is why he looks sad.

Christmas Day we all slept in and then opened presents. Memphis is still too young to understand presents and opening the wrapping paper but he had fun playing with his new toys. Memphis got really good at going up stairs but not necessarily going down them. He al

so had fun playing peek-a-boo in the curtains with his grandpa Thorpe.

Saturday we all just relaxed which was nice. Then we went to a movie. Since we didn't know anyone that lived near my parents and all my relatives lived too far away we took Memphis to my parent's bishop's house while we went to the movie. His wife and 5 daughters loved him and I am sure he had fun with all the attention:) After the movie about 10:30pm I was really hyper (don't know why) and my brother Chris and Danny kept making me laugh and while I was trying to run to the bathroom I mis-stepped the edge of the sidewalk in front of the house and rolled my ankle really bad. I was in a lot of pain and could not walk so I went to bed with ice. I just kept wondering how I was going to get through the airport not being able to walk. Well, I woke up and could hobble around ok even though I was slow.

Sunday there were no lines at the airport, they did not even ask to look at Memphis's birth certificate and Memphis got his own seat again and slept the whole way back to Utah. The day was going better than when we left or so I thought. When we got to the parking lot at the airport a tire on my SUV was flat! So, we had to change the flat tire at 8pm in 10 degree weather when all we wanted to do was be on our way home.

The fun does not stop there. When we got home we noticed that our bedroom was colder than the rest of the house didn't think anything of it though and just bundled up in blankets. The next night the room was too cold so we looked around and found out that the window had many cracks in it. So we slept in the living room cause it was too late to go upstairs to tell our landlord about it. I slept on the couch and my husband slept on the floor. The next day I went up to tell our landlords and found out that they were actually out of town and wouldn't be back till the next day if they could make it in the bad weather. So we are sleeping in the living room again.

Normally I think I would just stress and cry and not handle any of this very well but I was able to just laugh and have fun and relax! It made it all bearable and makes for a great story. Hope everyone had a great Christmas!!!