Our Michigan Christmas

So even though it's already half way through January, I'm still catching up on my Christmas blogs. Being gone for two week straight and then heading back to work the next day with report cards and progress reports waiting for you, makes a busy past few weeks. We had a wonderful time this Christmas and was able to spend some time with Stephen's family in Michigan. It was so fun to be out there for more than a few days. Although, we barely made it to Detroit with the craziness of the holiday airports, stranded people and fire alarms going off while waiting for our baggage. We were glad to finally get to Midland. It's been over a year since I've been there and seen the niece and nephews on the Holden's side. Stephen's sister came up from Illinois and we played tons! We had a great Christmas Day (my first away from home)seeing the excitement of a 4-year old and 2 2-year olds. Kids always make Christmas wonderful. One thing we did lots of while we were out there was play games and watch movies. Two favorites for the Holden family! I think we pulled out the board games on a daily basis. It was great! Amongst all the game playing and movie watching we were able to go sledding (before it rained and the 2 feet of snow melted), tried to stay on our feet while ice skating, played with cousin who came up from Ohio for a few days and we visited Grandpa Wilke. As we drove back down to Detroit at the end of our stay, we were lucky to have Erin (Stephen's little sister who's here at BYU) fly on the same flight with us back to SLC. We made it back just in time to see my two brothers who's families were in town for the holidays. It was too bad that our plane was an hour late and we only saw them for a quick few hours before they headed out in the morning. Guess it gave us an excuse to stay up until 3am playing the wii with each other. We crashed the next day with all the jet lag, but it sure was worth it!