The weeks leading up til now.......

If it's not one thing...its another. It has been a wild couple weeks. Bo and I flew to Vegas a couple weekends ago for his brother Jame's 50th birthday. My 3rd trip without our children in 11yrs....not something I do well. Not to mention the fact that it was two weeks before Christmas and I played major roles in Faith and Westons Christmas parties the next week, as well as wanting to photograph all grade levels for the school yearbook. I had not purchased one gift as of yet, had not photographed our kids or ordered Christmas cards, my children had not even made a list for Santa... I had not decorated my house sufficiently and had a yearbook deadline. BUT, I picked myself up by my boot straps packed my bags, kissed my babies goodbye and boarded my plane to Vegas. It was difficult but, I love my brother in law so much and knew that I wanted to be a part of his celebration.
Bo had to deal with my "traveling w/out our kids blues" for about 24hours and then I was able to relax a little and enjoy myself. I had checked in with the kids a number of times and all was well.....actually, all was "awesome" they were with their Grandparents.


We had a great couple days on the trip and were headed home....but, not without incident.....you see it would seem that my memory is not as great as I thought(perhaps I should phrase it that is is much worse than I thought) and as we arrived at the Las Vegas Airport on a Friday morning...we discovered that our "noon" flight was in fact at 11:10 and we had three minutes to check our bags, get through security and board the plane.....as you may have concluded....we didn't make it! Things were a little bumpy between Bo and I for a little bit! In fact, I was anxiously awaiting the point at which Bo would be no longer speaking to me....
We were able to catch the next flight and made it home just a couple hours later. There is nothing quite like coming back to our kids! There are so many other lives I could have had.......so glad I have mine!

Happy Birthday Jameo!!! We love you tons!!!!
Love to all,
J