All I want for Christmas is you....

So, you've probably all been hearing about the airlines, storms, and traveling troubles. Jamin was away in Turkey last week (with work). He left Turkey on Saturday afternoon and was due to fly in to Halifax on Sunday night. That, of course, did not happen.

When I spoke with him on Sunday he was so happy because he had just barely made his flight to Toronto from the Heathrow airport. He was so happy to land in Canada; just about home, or so he thought.

His next flight was supposed to be from Toronto to Halifax. He got on the flight Sunday night and it wasn't able to land in Halifax, so kept going to NFLD. Jamin rushed around the airport there (he said he felt like he was on the Amazing Race!) and managed to book a ticket to Halifax with a different airline than he was originally travelling with. He was excited to be finally getting home. By this time, it was 8:00am Monday morning. He had hardly slept and was getting really tired. Oh well...one last flight, then home.

Not so. The flight couldn't land in Halifax, so kept going to TORONTO! So basically he spent 24 hours to fly to NFLD and back to Toronto. Poor guy.

Then, he managed to get the last seat on a flight to Moncton because there were no flights available to Halifax until after Christmas. He just wanted to get to the Maritimes. He got into Moncton and then booked a flight to Halifax from there.

It got cancelled. Jamin was so desperate to get home, he & a few people he met up with hired a taxi to drive them to Halifax. He finally got home at midnight Monday night.

We're so thankful he is home for Christmas. There are so many people that have just had horrible stories of travelling. Can you imagine being suck in an airport with young children?! That would be so difficult!

We just got a call today that his luggage has arrived, so that's good. He is missing his bite plate :)

Merry Christmas!!

$5/pound!!

Yesterday we bought these lobsters for $5/pound! Is that not a great price or what!? Although I was afraid of them, the kids seemed to enjoy touching them!

More Christmas prep & visit with Cynthia

Just a couple more Christmas prep pics:

Naomi putting the 'M' on the tree for Micah. Grampie makes a letter for each one of us.

Naomi sitting proudly with our gingerbread house. Jamin & I have been making (when I say making, I don't mean baking) one pretty much every year since we met.Last night, Cynthia, Xander & Glenda stayed at our place. Xander is 5 months old and a very happy baby.
Naomi warmed up quickly to our company and wanted Cynthia to read her a book (then another, then another...)
Here's a pic from a few days ago when we still had snow. Naomi was playing on the deck and Micah was watching her, longing to be outside too!

It's Friday night and it's raining & windy. Our power is out, but we're enjoying the use of our generator. You know, for the essentials like internet :)

A tooth!!

Micah's first tooth just popped through today! I was beginning to wonder if he was ever going to get a tooth. He will be 10 months this Saturday.

Christmas festivities

It's December and Christmas will be here soon! We got our tree up yesterday and today we took the kids to the family Christmas party put on by Jamin's workplace. Naomi was excited to go and get her present from Santa. As you will see below, she was not excited to see Santa.

Here are the kids ready to go to the party.

Naomi & Jamin working on a craft:

Micah's name was called before Naomi's. He went up and sat on Santa's lap.
He didn't mind at all.

Naomi's name was called later on. She was NOT happy to see Santa.
However, she did want the gift.

Now that we have our tree up, I have to watch Micah even more closely.
He wants to pull everything off!

Ah, I love this time of year!

Naomi's hairdos

Naomi's hair is starting to get long. The other day I straightened it. She looked so different!Then the other day I put it in french braids. She loved them!

Happy Birthday, Patty!

The other day was my friend, Patty's birthday. Patty & I used to work together. I hadn't seen her in a long time, and it was so nice to get together with her & some other work friends. Special thanks to my parents for watching the kiddies!