My mom
Zachary
Frankie, Justin S. and Grand-Paul
Kurt and momWe had a great time with my side of the family staying at my Grandma Lorna and Grand-Paul's house with my mom, Zachary, Great Grandma Julie and a few days later Kurt joined us too. (A side not Zachary is over 6 feet! He's getting so tall and handsome!) We ate lots of delicious food and were stuffed the whole time! Two nights Justin, Kurt, my mom and I stayed at Harrah's casino. We had a buffet at Valley Views casino too which later had its effects on me. I either ate too much or had something bad but that following day my stomach hurt and I was nauseous. (That was a bad day)
Christmas Eve we all attended my grandma's church at St. Mark's Catholic Church. It was very packed and we stood in the back listening the the choir and the message. It was very nice. After church we raced home and started cooking for Cooking with Lisa. My mom and everyone made sure they had all the ingredients while I made sure I had my camera all set up. We made the video and ate appetizers with Justin (Paul's son) and Frankie (his soul mate) joined us for dinner and great conversation. Dinner was amazing and could have fed 10 more people. After dinner we open presents. This isn't normal for our family. Normally we open 1 gift or pj's and save the rest for Christmas but this year we were headed for Disneyland on Christmas.
We got to Disneyland around 9:30am (gates opened at 8am) and we thought everyone should be home with their families. We were very wrong. It was the most packed we've all ever seen it. Space Mt. had a 85 minute wait. Other rides were about 55 minutes (which is about normal). We got stuck in a traffic jam of people while a parade was happening. We seriously couldn't move and the worker kept yelling "keep walking"... ummm we can't move. People were stopping to take pictures and finally I took Justin and started shoving people to get them moving a little faster. It was CRAZY but we all had a good time.
December 26th- Justin and I had to say our goodbyes to head home. It's always bitter sweet heading back home. We missed the Colwells, friends and Justin's family for Christmas and we really missed our BED. But leaving my mom, Kurt, Zachary and the grandparents is very hard. I hate having us so far apart. I know its really hard on my mom because once we have kids she wants to be closer so her grand kids know her. Zachary misses his sister a lot (and he misses his other sister:Lorraine) It's hard for me because I miss everyone and I don't want anyone's feelings to be hurt but saying goodbye to my mom is super hard for me. It's not because I love her more or anything. I just really miss her and living with her for 18 year to not seeing her is really hard. It's hard for me knowing she's going to be so far away and that I cant call her and say lets go to the mall or out for lunch or let me make you dinner. I hope one day I can do all those things with her and make her go work-out with me and BUG her. ;) Enough of my sad story... I just miss them all a lot! Once we got home Ben, Lorraine and Benjamin picked us up at the airport. I sure did miss my Papas (Benjamin). We got home unpacked a little and crashed.
Tonight we'll be doing a gift exchange with the Regules'/Colwell family. We are very blessed to have so many people who treat us like family and involve us. We go around saying they are our second families. I've know the Regules' for 9 years now and Lorraine and I just say we're sister to make it easier... except when people are say, "what your dad is coming out". Then I have to explain they are my adopted family and I really have a different family. Justin has known the Regules' family longer then me! We love them all but most of all we love Papas (our nephew)!
We hope you all had a great Christmas and have a Blessed New Year!
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