The Week After

After a fun trip to Branson, we had a really interesting week following. Our realtor had asked us to have an Open House the following weekend and to have the house decorated for Christmas. I had decided I was going to do minimal decorating since the house is for sale, Madi is so little and curious, and we would be at Mom & Dad's for Christmas anyway. Well, I went ahead and decorated everything that following week in addition to Alli's gymnastics lesson and a baby shower. Meanwhile, we learned that James' uncle, his Dad's identical twin had passed away in Oklahoma. We quickly shifted around our plans to be there as we felt like that was important. On Friday evening, we had my company's Christmas party in Salado, which was wonderful food by the way. On Saturday, Alli was in the Gatesville Christmas parade, then she went to a birthday party in Waco, and then we took her to the Nutcracker practice at Waco Hall for their costume fitting and dress rehearsal until 9 pm. On Sunday, we finished packing for Oklahoma, did her hair and makeup for the Nutcracker, did final touchups for the Open House, went to watch the Nutcracker with the Waco Symphony and Russian Ballet, and then we left straight for Oklahoma. Don't get me wrong, while we were very tired and stressed after everything was said and done, we were glad we made it to everything because every activity proved to be a blessing in itself...but even more so to be able to be back home and spend some time enjoying the holidays.