We’re back home now….Vegas home, not Texas home. It’s nice to be back for a few reasons: 1) we have our own bed, 2) we eat healthier when we’re here, 3) yeah….that’s about it. 
We had a really awesome time in Texas. Friday (the 17th) I got off of work at 1pm, headed home, helped finish loading up the car and getting ready to leave and left. We were on the road by 3pm, which I found pretty good considering it took me over 30 minutes to get home from work and then we still had quite a bit to do once I was here. Then we had to get gas, air up the tires, etc. Such a big ordeal to leave town!
We drove straight through and got to Texas right around 9:30am Saturday morning. That’d be 7:30am Vegas time, so all-in-all it took us 16 1/2 hours to drive. Not too bad. We passed through lots of below 20 degree weather, but somehow didn’t encounter any ice! Wow, right? We were blessed in that way!
We got to Matt’s dads house and unloaded our car….into our new car! His step-mom had it waiting for us. Yay! Let me just say, driving 16 1/2 hours across 4 states in a 2 door Honda Civic with 2 60+ pound dogs and 2 grown humans isn’t a fun thing to do! Our new little SUV was greatly appreciated at this point! LOL! We got a 2011 GMC Terrain. Pretty cute.
From there we proceeded to drive an additional 4 hours to Dallas with my brother-in-law & sister-in-law to see a Cowboys game! WOOHOO! We played the Redskins and won! HOORAY! That was our big Christmas gift to one another–the game. 
Such a great time!
After this we had 3 days with each family. My family got us first–we had Sophie with us & Ralph luckily stayed with Matt’s brother. There were 5 dogs, 3 little boys and 8 adults in my parents house while we were there. Talk about chaos! But a good kinda chaos….you know, they kind you miss when it’s gone? 3 days simply was not enough!
Matt’s dad got us next. This was totally different! Such peace and quiet. Wow! Talk about extremes! LOL! I also immensely enjoyed these 3 days. They have a tradition of watching “White Christmas” every year. It was my first time to ever see this movie, and I have to say, I liked it.
And finally, Matt’s mom got us last. They are a good mixture of his dad’s family and my family in terms of the chaos. More people than at the FIL’s, but much less than at my parents’. And again, immensely enjoyable.
I’m happy to be back home because we have our own things again, and our own bed…..but otherwise, I can’t wait for another visit!
