Christmas and Beyond!

Christmas was a fun time for us! Although we had no tree of our own in Florida for the "Christmas Season," Jackson and I were creative and made our own out of green posterboard, sparkly foam sticker ornaments, and a string of 20 lights. We cut out stockings and a fireplace from brown paper bags from the commissary (grocery store) and watched "Frosty the Snowman" over and over and over again!

Jackson and I went to see Santa at the Panama City Mall. Although he was not too fond of sitting on his lap, he would wave at him from a distance and smile. He asked for a train and a kite from Santa, and Santa got him a just that. We spent Christmas with Cody's parents in Cleburne, Texas. Jackson and I drove with Cody's brother, sister-in-law and our two nephews along with their dog (if you're a Facebook Fan, you read as we traveled)to Texas. We made good time, taking only 15 hours in one day! Cody came 3 days later after he had finished up his training in Florida. It was a fun, White Christmas!

We met up with our friends, The Campbells a few days after Christmas to catch up over some breakfast at La Madeleine and then hang out at The Gaylord Hotel in Dallas.


We then met our other great friends, The Lamberts, in the afternoon at The Gaylord Hotel and enjoyed even more walking around to view the "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" scene that they had! We followed that up with good ol' Texas Barbeque at Riskey's Barbeque at the Fort Worth Stockyards.


On Dec. 30, 2009, Jackson and I headed back to Las Vegas and Cody back to Las Vegas by way of San Diego to pick up our car that had arrived from the UK (and, no, not a new car we bought there, but our trusty 1995 Ford Explorer). We enjoyed the New Year back here.

So, now, we are living in temporary housing until we can move into our own home...which, yes, we are in the process of closing on a home. Barring any large discrepancy between the appraisal and price of the house, we should be closing on the 5th of Feb.!! Happy Valentine's Day to us!!

If you're not a facebook fan, half of our stuff from Scotland is lost and cannot be tracked at the current time. So, hopefully, it will be located and with us shortly after we close on the house. We are anxious, at this point, to get moved into and settled here in Las Vegas before we have to move again!!

And, so now, I do believe you are all caught up. Sorry it's taken me forever to do that. Hope all is well with everyone!!