FAMILY HERE!

As MUCH as I love Christmas, I've been a bit bitter towards all of the "I'll be home for Christmas" and "we're together at Christmas" songs this year. I've been waiting impatiently for my family to arrive and that day FINALLY came! Actually, I got to pick up Ryan on Tuesday and we've been hiking and messing around and chilling out for almost a week.

Meanwhile, Mom, Dad, and Elyse have been living it up in New York going to White Christmas on Broadway and staying in a hotel on Times Square and going to Macys and Anthropologie and and afternoon in Paris!

so stinkin cute! i kind of forgot that the rest of the world was cold right now, but they have mentioned SEVERAL times that new york was freezing!!

Monday we jumped out of bed at 5:00 am to pick them up at the airport. They made it, without some luggage, but they're here!

pooly erica!

Poor family, going from OKC to NYC to Paris to Nairobi in just a few days! Culture SHOCK! Welcome to steamy Kenya, lose some bags, traffic and truck exhaust . . . good thing my family has traveled before, they took it all in stride.

We've decorated the tree and made a gingerbread house as I tried to make up for lost time celebrating Christmas with my family.


They took turns konking out on my fun but I forgive them. They can do whatever they want, as long as they're here with me!