Christmas vacation

Our christmas vacation was so much fun! It was crazy busy, but I wouldn't ask for more.  We drove through the night to get to Oregon because of the young one.  Colby does not do that well in his carseat these days, he just wants to go, go, go and hates that the carseat restrains him.  He finally upgraded to a front facing carseat for this trip and that made things so much easier to tend to him while we were traveling.  We left here around 7:30 and got to Oregon around 8:30 in the morning. not too shabby, but MAN is it exhausting to drive all night.  Our plan worked out great, Colby slept the majority of the way and made our trip so nice.  We started off the beginning of our vacation in Sherwood, spending just a couple days there.  We decorated sugar cookies, it was fun to watch colby. He got SOME frosting on the cookie.

Christmas morning was a blast with Colby able to do so much more than last year.  He ripped open those presents like a pro - although he didn't care much for what was inside. Maybe next year.

My parents planned another game for us this year "minute to win it" and of course we had a great time trying to beat these games in order to get our gifts.  I'm glad we are all able to get together still to spend Christmas morning together.

Monday morning, Andrew and I headed off to Bend to share the holiday with Andrew's parents.  It was a great trip over there! We opened more presents, let Colby explore the outdoors a bit, and we took him sledding. We were even sledding in the rain and Colby had a permanent smile on his face.  It was so much fun to watch him.  Pretty sure i bundled him up enough, once he could barely move his arms i figured we were good to go.

We made it back to Sherwood for the last bit of the trip and we had a great time relaxing before our journey home (again traveling through the night).  We are back in Bakersfield now, and although i miss Oregon to death, it feels nice getting back into our routine. I'm already looking forward to our next trip up there, although i have know idea when that will be.