Well we are back in Kansas now after being gone for two weeks. We got to spend Christmas in MD and PA and had a really good time!! I'll recap the two weeks...we left Friday the 19th after I got off work and the girls got out of school, I think we got off around 4:30 or so. We drove through the night and it went really well...it would have been nice if the girls would have slept a little more but over all they did good. Dan even drove the whole way and didn't seem to have any trouble staying awake at all! We got to Mom and Dad's around 10 or 10:30am, so it took us around 17 hours total with the time difference. It was so good to see everyone!!!
We got to go to church twice, which was awesome. It felt wonderful being back there! Being back at Glade was one of the highlights of the trip. It felt so comforting being among our church family again. The second Sunday we were there Dan had Sunday school and the sermon. I think both went really well!
The first Sunday we were back kicked off our Christmas dinners, with the Maust Christmas dinner which was held at Brad and Jessica's. It was a lot of fun seeing everyone again and had a good ham dinner too!
The next week we left for PA on Tuesday and stayed with Grandpa and Grandma. We had our dinner on Wed afternoon and then went to the Christmas eve service at Franconia Mennonite Church, then we all went back to Grandma's. Thurs. was spent at Sandra's playing games and visiting. We waited till the Laker's game was over (for Dan) at 8:30pm to head back to MD. I drove the whole way so Dan could work on his sermon for Sunday and we didn't get back to Mom and Dad's until 1:00am. I was so glad to go to bed!
Friday we spent the day at Sonny and Alissa's for our christmas dinner, which was ribs that Sonny made...they were really good! We spent the day playing games and eating. That evening Dan and I attended the viewing for Raymond Bender....who is the father and grandfather for some good friends of ours. He was a great christian man and has a wonderful family! He left a wonderful legacy!
Saturday we went to our friends, Buster and Viola's. Sunday we played games and then I went to visit some girls from work we had a lot of fun playing Wii!! :) The next week was just hanging out at mom and dad's, visiting with friends, and playing games. We went to Sonny and Alissa's New years eve and had a good game of scum going!
We left mom and dad's new years morning around 11am and drove to Wakarusa, IN to stay the night with Dan's aunt and uncle. We left their house Friday morning around10am and arrived home around 10:30pm. The longest leg of the trip, or what seemed like the longest anyway was by far Friday. The girls were whiny and fussy and it just seemed to take forever, but we made it! We all slept really well in our beds that night.
Here are some pictures. They are in order backwards.
Here are the girls on the way to Indiana, Thursday.
Riley and Brayden on New year's eve.
Brayden, Madisyn, Alexa, and Riley in front of Sonny and Alissa's Christmas tree.
My cousins Cheryl, Brenda, and Angie, Alissa, Mom and Me in a game of Settlers.
At the Maust Christmas dinner.
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