Christmas in Illinois

We have to start visiting IL in the summer time. Leaving New Mexico to go to Illinois just doesn't make sense in December. We hit Illinois just in time for a major ice storm and subzero temperatures. The good part about it was that we had lots of play time with Grandma and Grandpa Wedekind since we were homebound. We did get to visit with Santa Claus one morning and then we headed to the annual Christmas Eve dinner with all of the Noonans. It was a great evening but the highlight was when Rick proposed to Aunt Colleen. That was exciting and now we have a wedding to go to in October.

Flying with Tessa proved to be quite the challenge. She doesn't like it, to say the least. She cried the ENTIRE way home. To top it off, Cade choked on chinese food and threw up in the airport and then had an accident when trying to use the water fountain. I guess he couldn't hold it once he heard the water flowing. Of course I had no extra pants. Luckily his were so large that just his underwear got wet. Unfortunately, the underwear was the only thing keeping his pants up so they kept falling down when he walked. That is when dad fashioned a belt out of our camera case strap and we were good to go. Tessa then cried the whole way home but by that time, James and I just slept through it. Our apologies to other passengers on the plane. It was good to be home.