North Carolina

We finally made it back to North Carolina December 24 (Christmas eve) after our ordeal trying to make it back to North Carolina from Hawaii. Christina was so tired after her shower, she was going to put hair gel in her hair, she grab the aloe vera gel and put it in her hair. She had to take another shower to get it out. Christina's mom & step dad had the family over for Christmas eve. There was 19 total of us for dinner. We had yummy food, open a few gifts. Amaya (niece) read a Christmas book to us all. My mom's neighborhood lites candles along the street, that are in white paper bags. It looks very neat driving into the neighborhood. But sad thing is that it was windy that night. And it catch like 3 people yards on fire, so sad. Even one yard the fire truck had to show up to put fire out. The fire came very close to the people's house. Christina's little sister Kara and Christina went around after the fire trucks showed up and went around neighborhood in her car and blew out the rest of the candles. We were all so tired, we were amazed we slept in till 8 a.m. on Christmas morning, we probably would have slept more. We all had a wonderful Christmas. Got great gifts. Christina, Kara, TJ, Nancy went to the movies and saw: The Tale of Despereaux. Steve & Paul saw: Valkyrie. We ate more yummy food, and sat around and visit & played games. Friday, December 26 we got all packed up. Amazing Steve was able to get everything we needed in the car, just barely. Nancy made an early dinner. We got on the road to drive home around 3:15 p.m. We made it home around 7:45 p.m. We got half way unpacked last night. Today (December 27) got up and went to Amy house. She took care of our hermit crab for us. TJ & Christina stayed there for a little over an hour. We asked Amy and the kids to come over later to play. Steve got us lunch since we had nothing in the house. TJ worked on homework. Amy and kids came over for a few hours. It was nice to visit with them. After they left TJ went over to another friend's house Lil Trevor. They play outside. Christina visit with Lil Trevor's mom & dad. Steve went grocery shopping. Steve got home and we got groceries put away. Steve made hamburgers for dinner. TJ is playing his video game. Steve & Christina are catching up on their recorded shows they missed.