We had a wonderful time in Booker for Christmas and New Year's. The drive to Booker, was horrible! But, Alexander and Sampson did great. We left at 8am on Christmas Eve Morning. Lubbock had been hit by freezing rain and snow, but we didn't know how bad it was until we got out in it. An hour after we left our house, we made it to the Lubbock Airport. We thought about turning around, but knew that driving back through Lubbock would be tough and thought that maybe just north of Lubbock, we would be out of this mess. Alexander and Sampson slept on and off in the back seat and never seemed to mind that we were only going 25 miles per hour and being blown from side to side with the 40 mile per hour wind gusts and the icy roads. It didn't clear up in an hour and Jason did an amazing job to not end up like the 40-50 cars we saw in the ditches as we drove. We were in a long line of people travelling that day. Finally, at Tulia, the ice was clearing up even though the wind was getting worse.
After we had been on the road for four hours, we stopped in Amarillo (normally 1hr 45min - 2hr trip). Luckily, the parents of Stephani's best friend from childhood live in Amarillo. We took a nice long stop where Alexander could eat, we could eat and lounge around for a little before getting back in the car. Also, Stephani's best friend happened to be in town and his brother and is wife and kids came over too. It was a nice reunion and a good start to the Christmas spirit.
We did make it to Booker in time for Christmas Eve service at Booker Christian Church. It was great to see everyone there and show off Alexander's new lip for the first time in Booker although most people had already seen it on the front page of the Booker News the day before. Yes, Alexander is famous, frontpage news in good ol' Booker, TX.
Food, family, games, and fun for all for the next few days. It was great that Alexander had time with Uncle Marcus, Aunt Lindsey, Great Grandma Ruby and his grandparents. Thanks to weather in Oklahoma, we also saw Great Aunt Debbie and Don. Over the weekend Alexander got to meet many more family members even though he tended to be in bed during some of the most fun times of the weekend.
Santa was very good to Alexander. He didn't know what was going on but had a good time playing with everyone and his new toys.
Ok, I am going to go ahead and post this because lunch at work is almost over and our home computer is still on the fritz. I promise to add some pictures soon, more about the break and more about how great daycare is going.
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