12/28/2009

Iowa - Week one - Into Des Moines

So far our vacation has been a bit crazy but we’ve had fun. We drove 19 hours straight through to Des Moines. Our intention was to stay overnight in Kansas City, but there was bad weather on the radar and Erin got car sick just south of KC so we pushed it through to Jared parents.

The weather was a bit crazy, for days they forecasted what sounded like an Armageddon storm so the big family Christmas was canceled and we sat around for three days waiting for it to hit and it didn’t do much. Some ice and 6 inches of snow. It was enough to make us shovel Christmas Morning but that was it. It did make driving across the state not-so great.
Christmas Eve The girls acted out the Christmas Story out of Luke. Erin got into it, Eliza just looked mortified that she had a towel wrapped around her head. We sang Christmas songs around the piano, played some games and called it a night. Jared youngest sister Heather got engaged on Christmas Morning. Most of the week we just relaxed with family and it was so nice to see everyone.

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