Fun things with Daddy home

Daddy and Samuel driving a cart through the Wal-mart parking lot

Daddy wrangling Samuel at the Children's Museum (I was so glad not to be the one doing all the chasing)

Daddy trying to catch children with big bubbles

Austin blowing me a bubble

Joseph really likes playing with the bubbles

Everybody playing with giant bubbles

Daddy riding the high-wire bike at the musuem (I did it too, but I had the camera, so no pictures of me)

Joseph playing with an air board at the musuem

Daddy helping Samuel engineer a marble contraption

Austin and Betsy playing with rubber tubing and golf balls

Austin and Betsy sitting outside the museum

All the kids got lollipops from chuck-e-cheese with their tickets

Travis came home for R & R at Christmas time, and we all had a blast, and had fun for 2 weeks with him home. He never told us exactly which day he was coming home, so when the doorbell rang, and it was Daddy, we were all exstatic! Everyone crowded around Daddy trying to get hugs, and time with him. We did lots of activities with Travis home and the kids out of school. We did our Christmas Caroling and delivering plates of yummy Christmas Cookies, that I'd spent weeks preparing. We had our Christmas presents to open Christmas morning, which was fun and exciting. Travis' mom came to visit for a while after Christmas too, so we got to have fun with Grandma too. We went to Chuck-e-Cheese, and the Incredible Pizza Co. they were both a ton of fun, and we all had a great time. We went shopping downtown at the flea market, and I got a new jogger stroller that I'm sooo excited about. We also took a trip to Albuquerque to go to the Temple, and really enjoyed going to a session together, and then afterwards going to this really fun Children's Museum, that was just amazing and had so many fun things to do and explore, I think this was everyone's favorite place that we went to. During the middle of this I ended up with a UTI (Urinary Tract Infection) which resulted in a Dr. visit and was given the wrong antibiotics, so the infection moved up into my kidneys, and resulted in a hospital visit New Year's Eve, to get new antibiotics. I finally recovered but was very ticked off that I lost precious time with my husband and children being sick. We had an absolutly wonderful time together, and we were all very sad to send Travis back to Iraq.

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