Leaving on a Jet Plane

This year, we decided that instead of driving 5 hours to A-Town for Thanksgiving we would fly. Yes, you read it correctly. Cody and I decided to fly with twins to A-town. We figured that this way we would get to spend more time with family and less time traveling.

We left last Wednesday at 8:30 am. Despite the "death stares" we received as we boarded the plane, the one hour flight wasn't too shabby at all. Lukas had a couple of fussy moments (that lasted a total of 1 or 2 minutes on the plane) then we were all a go. However, when we landed in A-Town before exiting the plane, Miss Maddox decided she had enough of sitting still and it was past her nap time. She proceeded to make me and EVERYONE on the plane aware of her unhappiness. This, however, was short lived as soon as we were allowed to stand she was a happy camper.

Thanksgiving was wonderful. We spent it with Cody's family. Ione and Kylene prepared a wonderful Thanksgiving feast. They took care of everything all weekend and we were super Thankful because traveling had worn us out. We got to see our nieces, Lauren and Ally. They are soo good with the babies and kept them pretty busy the entire time. Brandon, Kylene's husband, cooked an awesome steak and shrimp dinner and prepared some awesome Chiladas.

We spent the evenings at my mom's house, so that we could put the twins down for bed every night around the same time. We loved getting to see my entire family as well.

The babies came down with a nasty cold on our trip and were super fussy, so Cody and I dreaded the flight home. Of course, our babies decided to nap early and ended up waking up at 10 am and our flight was at 12:30 pm. We got to the airport and checked in and were told our flight was delayed for 15 to 20 minutes. After making 20 or so laps around the airport letting Miss Maddox and Mr. Lukas do as much walking as they wanted, we finally boarded the plane.

We took off and things were going great, if Lukas started getting fussy a sweet guy behind us wearing sunglasses would raise them up so Lukas could see his eyes then put them back down...this "game" pleased Lukas very much and quickly cheered him up.

Towards the end of the flight we busted out suckers. We have only given our babies suckers once before, so you can imagine the delight they had when given this sugary treat.

**A word of advice when giving a sucker to an 11 month old, be prepared to look like plastic by the end of the sucker. Sucker slober kisses will make you and your babies look like you were made by Mattel. Maddox even enjoyed a game of put the sucker in Mommy's mouth and quickly pull it out (the aim and distance perception of an 11 month old isn't 100% let me tell you), but all that mattered is they were happy the ENTIRE flight. Happy babies = happy parents!

We got home around 3:00 pm and you could tell the babies were so much more at ease once we started playing with their toys in their environment.

After putting the babies to bed at 7, you would think that Cody and I would crash out. However, Cody and I are very impatient people and we have a Playroom design set up for our kids and couldn't wait to start our project. We ended up buying paint and painting the entire playroom that night! We are super excited to finish it up for Lukas and Maddox's first birthday present!

Anywho, that is all that is going on in our world. We are back to our home, our dogs, our schedule and our life. So blessed we are...

Next up...Family pictures taken by the fabulous Missy Flint!