Crazy or not here we go

Clint and I are in the middle of planning a road trip for this summer. With all the crazy stuff going on when you travel by plane, we decided to avoid it this summer.
Clint is currently unemployed and will probably remain that way until the fall. Classes at South Eastern will end in May and Hannah will be out of school as well.
We will begin out journey by packing up our apartment and putting everything in storage. The Moore family reunion is Memorial weekend and we will begin our road trip there. From there we will go on to the first on many national parks we plan to visit. Our first stop will be the Guadalupe Mountains national park. From there we will head west. The grand canyon, redwoods, crater lake, and yellow stone are just a few of the places we plan to visit. We expect our trip to take at least two months. We will be driving the expedition and camping part of the time, staying in cabins or hotels other times. Jackson is calling me, so I will fill you all in more later.

Christmas 1,2, & 3

Hannah got skates for Christmas


Jackson's first Christmas


Jackson and his stocking at our house

Hannah looking at the doll house


Since our lives seem to stay in such upheaval, I don't know if we will ever be able to get any family traditions started, but we do what we can.
This year we had Christmas with our little family here in Allen on Tuesday morning. Carrie flew in from Portland on Monday and went straight to Glen Rose to see Aunt Judy and Uncle Tom for Christmas. We all drove to Durant on Tuesday night.
This year Hannah asked Santa for a doll house, a baby doll, and a box of candy. ( I took the kids to have their picture made with Santa that Monday and that is exactly what she told him.)
"Christmas morning" she got up and was more excited about the stocking with candy in it than she was the doll house. I guess that is ok, we bought the doll house two years ago at a clearance sale, so we got a good deal at least....
Christmas Eve was spent with Clint's family at his sister's house. We had lunch and opened gifts that afternoon. We headed home sooner than planned because the snow was picking up and we did not want to let the roads get bad.
I sung "Breath of Heaven" at the Christmas Eve service at church that night and my cousin Rachel did a dance to it. When I started singing Hannah said " Listen Mimi, mommy is going to sing dramatically!" I don't know where she gets this stuff.
Santa came to Mimi and Grandad's house also. She got a baby doll and a little piano/keyboard. We opened gifts with my parents and then Mike and Charlene and the kids (not so young now) came over for lunch. We had fun playing Rachel's game Apples to Apples. All in all it was a good holiday time.
I am still in the process of figuring out where all the new stuff is going to go in our small apartment. I had already culled and packed up a bunch of Hannah's old toys, but I still am out of space. Some day we will be in a house and I hope that helps a little.