So, now we've had our third and final Christmas and I'm ready to post again! Callie had her first first Christmas at Thanksgiving with the Schirer-Suters and Great Great Uncle Don. We had a great time with our family and Callie had lots of fun tearing up tissue paper. Callie and Cedric got along really well; Cedric just couldn't get enough of her!
Our second first Christmas as the Booker 3 was in Illinois. We had dinner with our preacher and his wife on Saturday night and right as they were going to leave, our power went out for the second time in two days. We had to spend the night without electricity. We bundled Callie up and cuddled for warmth. By the time we woke up in the morning, it was 50 degrees in the house.
Fortunately, Granny Great and Paw-Paw had gotten their power back on around 4am, so we took all the presents into their house and showered and warmed up over there. We opened all our presents and had a great time with it. We were prepared to spend the night in there, but our power was restored around 1 pm, so we were able to go back out to the farm.
Unfortunately, with all the power outages, we were not able to update our blog for quite awhile.
We left for Chicago O'Hare in a panic trying to outrun the latest ice storm to hit Illinois (global warming, anyone?) where we spent the night at a hotel in anticipation of our flight the next day. We were worried about our flight leaving since over 500 flights had been cancelled the day before. Fortunately, our flight was leaving on time and they were even able to get standby tickets for an earlier flight. We were hoping to get that so we would arrive in Colorado Springs before 10:30pm.
So we went to the gate for the earlier flight and we went up to the counter to ask what our chances were of getting on the earlier flight, and the guy looked at us and said "You're confirmed on the flight, you're definitely getting on," and looked at us like we were crazy. He said he was working on seat assignments and he would call us when he had them ready. So, we got our first seat assignments and sat in excited anticipation that we were going to arrive in Colorado 3 hours earlier than expected. All of the sudden, we heard them call our names again, and they had upgraded us to first class! And we were well taken care of! First, drinks, then hot nuts, then dinner, then cookies, and more drinks throughout . . . I was really excited! Of course, Callie thought she had to eat every time we did, so we all shared.
We arrived in Colorado safely, and on time. Our bags were out right away and we were able to leave the airport and visit with the Booker side of the family. Our third Christmas was wonderful and we enjoyed the company and the gifts. :)
Since then, we've been skiing (well, Philip went snowboarding) and shopping, and trooping all over Colorado.
We go back to Illinois on the 5th to an empty house. Then, we'll be housesitting for my grandparents until the end of February. We're excited to have a house to ourselves for awhile at least! I'll add pictures to the post later once I sort through them all!
Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and has an amazing New Year's celebration! God Bless!
Our second first Christmas as the Booker 3 was in Illinois. We had dinner with our preacher and his wife on Saturday night and right as they were going to leave, our power went out for the second time in two days. We had to spend the night without electricity. We bundled Callie up and cuddled for warmth. By the time we woke up in the morning, it was 50 degrees in the house.
Fortunately, Granny Great and Paw-Paw had gotten their power back on around 4am, so we took all the presents into their house and showered and warmed up over there. We opened all our presents and had a great time with it. We were prepared to spend the night in there, but our power was restored around 1 pm, so we were able to go back out to the farm.
Unfortunately, with all the power outages, we were not able to update our blog for quite awhile.
We left for Chicago O'Hare in a panic trying to outrun the latest ice storm to hit Illinois (global warming, anyone?) where we spent the night at a hotel in anticipation of our flight the next day. We were worried about our flight leaving since over 500 flights had been cancelled the day before. Fortunately, our flight was leaving on time and they were even able to get standby tickets for an earlier flight. We were hoping to get that so we would arrive in Colorado Springs before 10:30pm.
So we went to the gate for the earlier flight and we went up to the counter to ask what our chances were of getting on the earlier flight, and the guy looked at us and said "You're confirmed on the flight, you're definitely getting on," and looked at us like we were crazy. He said he was working on seat assignments and he would call us when he had them ready. So, we got our first seat assignments and sat in excited anticipation that we were going to arrive in Colorado 3 hours earlier than expected. All of the sudden, we heard them call our names again, and they had upgraded us to first class! And we were well taken care of! First, drinks, then hot nuts, then dinner, then cookies, and more drinks throughout . . . I was really excited! Of course, Callie thought she had to eat every time we did, so we all shared.
We arrived in Colorado safely, and on time. Our bags were out right away and we were able to leave the airport and visit with the Booker side of the family. Our third Christmas was wonderful and we enjoyed the company and the gifts. :)
Since then, we've been skiing (well, Philip went snowboarding) and shopping, and trooping all over Colorado.
We go back to Illinois on the 5th to an empty house. Then, we'll be housesitting for my grandparents until the end of February. We're excited to have a house to ourselves for awhile at least! I'll add pictures to the post later once I sort through them all!
Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and has an amazing New Year's celebration! God Bless!
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