The Friesen Family--stylin' in our Texas Trip Tee's!
We’re home (minus Chloe who will be arriving tomorrow night some time) and happy to be in our comfortable environment again. I think I’m most excited to sleep in our bed with my fabulous pillow again. 🙂 No wait, scratch that–I’m MOST excited to sleep in a different room than Josiah so I don’t wake up every time he moves. Yes, I’m very excited to get a full night’s sleep.
Everyone was up early to get the vans packed and be on the road just after 7:00. We sent Chloe back off with the crew and then got ready to head to the airport. We had to be there mid morning in order to return our car and get through security etc. Then there was a bit of a scramble when we lost Josiah’s tiger somewhere on our way from the car rental place to the airport… but the driver was nice enough to go back and find it and bring it back to us. That was definitely a relief! Our flight landed about 2:30 and I’m happy to report that Josiah slept for almost the entire flight back. It was GREAT! He proved to be an awesome traveling toddler on this trip. Of course, while we were there he was a bit fussy… but he was great on the flights. I didn’t pull out a single bag-o-distractions on the trip home.
Speaking of Josiah, he was beyond excited to be home–he ran around laughing and playing with his toys for a long time. It was the most adorable thing. We played for a while and then I quick mowed our unruly lawn. It was such a treat to be outside and enjoy the cool evening air. I tell you, after being in Texas all week with temps stuck solidly at 101* and 102* all week it was a breath of fresh air to walk out of the airport to a low 73*. We love it.
But now I’m wiped out. And tomorrow we’re up early again to get to church for worship team (that we were accidentally scheduled for unbeknownst to us…). But that’s okay because it is our very first Sunday in our new building so we wanted to be a part of the service anyway. So, I’ll post more later.
All in all the trip was fantastic. We had a great time relaxing and hanging out with family and doing all sorts of fun things. I’ll break it down with pictures this week, but here are a few of my favorites from our very first day and our very last day.
Digging into our Bags-O-Distractions on the ride to Texas
The whole happy group--23 total!
Riding on the bus from the car rental to the airport (this was when we didn't know we had lost the tiger)
Proof that he did indeed sleep on the plane ride home. Good thing we found that tiger!
This was the taken the night we all arrived--Chloe was so excited to see us!
Great report and great pictures. Can’t wait to see more and hear more!
I just think Chloe has the most expressive eyes. You can totally see how she is feeling just from her eyes – doesn’t matter what the rest of her face is doing! And you can read her almost unspeakable delight to see you in that last picture of her. Precious!
Looks like you had a great time! I hope you had a great night of sleep on your own pillow with Josiah happily tucked into his own bed last night 🙂 I’m looking forward to seeing the rest of your photos.