Texas in December

Thought I'd share a few pics from our road trip to Texas for Christmas. First of all I'm SO thankful that our drive was easy this year! We got there in 13 hours, which was a HUGE improvement to the 24+ it took us two years ago:

and...

Ya, so MUCH better this year. Lesson learned: check the weather before you go.

Anyways, we got there on December 23rd & stayed until December 31st, so it was a nice long trip! We did a lot of shopping, gift giving, & eating. A picture with my beautiful & very generous mother in law:

Mike got a boat...

Of course it had to be blown up in the dining room...

We went to a great Christmas Eve service at The Village. The pastor talked about how we're in a second season of Advent now, which I had never thought of before. One aspect of Advent is preparing for Christmas, but the second Advent is waiting for the return of our Messiah. And we're never going to be fully satisfied until He does, because we are waiting & longing for perfection, which comes after Christ returns. Anyways, quite interesting. And packed! We got turned away from the first service because the auditorium was already full! By the way, they are in an old Albertsons- it's not a small church!

Christmas was at Grannie's house, with lots of yummy food & a fun gift exchange. I got to spend some time with Michael's cousin Greg's 6 week old baby, which made me very happy. No pictures, though. =(

After Christmas, we drove to San Antonio for the Baylor bowl game. On the way we passed through Waco & I went back to the campus for the first time in a few years:

Sic 'em Bears!

Baylor really does have beautiful architecture!

 We went to the Riverwalk in downtown San Antonio, ate lunch on the river, & went to the Alamo, which is in downtown San Antonio!

P.S. The temperatures were in the 70s, and I was soaking up every second! It snowed about a foot in Colorado the day before we left, so 70 degree weather was much welcomed!!

That night we went to the Alamo Bowl, where Baylor & Washington set a bowl record for highest combined point total. Thankfully Baylor came out on top 67-56. Obviously both defenses were terrible! Honestly I got tired of cheering for touchdowns...

Baylor's first ever Heisman winner: Robert Griffen III

We win! Yay!

We drove back from San Antonio on the 30th, then took off for Colorado on the 31st. So, lots of driving those days. And driving on New Year's Eve. Yay. But now we're home safe, finally getting back into the routine of work, laundry, cooking, all the fun stuff you don't have to do while on vacation. This year made for a great trip & we're hoping some of our Texas family will come out to visit us in Colorado this summer!! **Wink, wink**

Happy New Year everyone! Check out my "12 in 2012" tab under the main picture to follow me on my new year's goals! I'd love to hear about yours!