Christmas Misadventures

Our Christmas proved to be one that we will not forget anytime soon.

As soon as Logan woke up we went downstairs to open presents. For some reason, Logan wasn't into it. In fact, the wrapping paper scared him. Once the wrapping paper was gone though, he seemed to enjoy his new toys.




After the presents were unwrapped, we ate a quick breakfast (delicious cereal...one day I'll actually make a Christmas breakfast) and got ready as fast as possible to get down to my parents house in Auburn (which is about an hours drive).

We got into the car and headed out around 9:45am. It was snowing, and it was snowing hard! I couldn't believe all the snow, didn't we all ready have enough? I had talked to my brother who assured me that the freeway was fine. Our side streets weren't so good so we were looking forward to getting onto the freeway. We probably shouldn't have been so excited. I-405 was covered in snow and I believe the fastest we drove was a whopping 40mph. Only when we reached south Bellevue did it clear up. What should have taken us an hour to get to, took us about an hour and a half. It was insane! But we made it and we made it safely.

Finally at my parents house it was time to get the camera out and take pictures. I was excited to get lots of pictures of Logan since it was his first Christmas and the whole family was together. I turned on the camera to take a picture and the camera was broken! Seriously, it was working fine earlier that morning, but something happened to it between our house and my parents that convinced it not to work anymore. And, not only was our camera broken, but it seemed that everyone else's camera didn't have a working battery and there were no chargers. So, no camera this year. We did find an old one that we used, but it just wasn't the same. It made us laugh that all the cameras that everyone had didn't want to work today.

Here is a picture of David and Logan with the only camera we could find that worked. David and Heather got him this huge truck that they thought would be fun for Logan. I guess David had a different idea of fun for Logan by actually placing him in the truck instead of letting him play with it. :)

Dinner was great though, roast beef with lots of side dishes. It was delicious! We played some Rock Band after dinner and visited...it was an all around great Christmas despite the earlier problems. All too soon it was time to get home.

We left my parents house, or at least tried to. Our car got a little stuck in the street as we tried to leave, it took a little while, but we were able to get out. The roads were very slushy, icy, and snowy. You name it, the roads had it. The freeway was much better getting home though, just bare and wet. We were very excited about that. Finally we made it to our neighborhood. We turned into our development, then onto our street. Our house was just next door to where we were and our car got stuck yet again! Only this time, it was really stuck. Tires spinning, burning rubber, and going nowhere. It was 10:00 at night, no one had lights on in their homes so we didn't want to bother them. We tried for awhile, and then I looked up and saw one house with a light on. I ran to it and knocked on the door. I apologized for bothering them so late and told them the situation. Luckily he came out and helped us and after a long time, we got the car into our driveway and then into the garage. In total it took us about 30 minutes to get from our next door neighbors house to our garage. Crazy! I think tomorrow we are just going to stay home, in fact we may not go anywhere until the road is cleared up a little more.

All in all it was a great Christmas, just not so great for travelling. I love snow, but I think it should stay off the roads. In fact, it would be better if it just stayed in the mountains. :) Oh well. At least we had a white Christmas!