When it's busy, it's BUSY!!!!

So my goal of being better on this blog keeps getting side tracked LOL It seems that when things get busy, it's gets busy in spades!

We didn't get to have Middle boy for Thanksgiving because of all the traveling he has done and the amount of work he would have to miss :-( We had the nephew and his family though so that was fabulous! We started a new tradition where the day after Thanksgiving, the boys all get to go to the Duck game together while us girls and kids stayed home and played. Little princess started feeling sick so our plan of seeing a movie went south. Instead, the Little Prince and I went and saw Mega-Mind, it was cute and we had fun.

Over Christmas we were to miss Eaglet and his wife because they were to go to her parent's. I was so sad but trying to be understanding ;-) Unknown to me, the ticket prices were crazy so they decided to come here instead. They were trying to keep it a secret from me but I was so sad, Manly couldn't stand it, he caved and made them tell me LOL. It was a week long celebration with all the kids and my parents staying here. We had so much fun and Eaglet's wife had her first Family Tradition Experience.

Then we had Middle son for the week after and crammed in all the activities and foods he's been missing :-). He flew home for New Years Eve and we crashed at home alone, no annual Bunko party for us, we were so wiped we were almost sick.

The week after Middle son flew home, we flew south for the BCS Championship Game! We are big Oregon Duck fans and season ticket holders. We were able to get 4 tickets so we met up with Manly's brother and his wife, also HUGE fans. We flew into Las Vegas and get a car. We swung by In 'n Out Burger then hit the freeway and drove to Arizona. We did it that way because of a couple reasons. We had a conference that we were going to in Vegas starting the day after the game and flights to the game were nuts. We had so much fun even thought the Ducks lost :-( We really had a shot, they just didn't look like our normal team. Our kids were so jealous we went, but it's just another perk of being an emtpy nester LOL

Then we drove back to Vegas, stopping to see the Hoover Dam along the way as well as the new bridge. It's about a 4 1/2 hour drive. We turned in our car and then went to the hotel to meet up with our friends. We spent 4 days there and then flew home. When we got home we were babysitting puppies while eaglet and his wife flew to visit her family.

We have now taken the puppies back to their parents and crashed again LOL. You are now all caught up on our lives. In the next post I'll get back to business, if you can call it that :-)