America - Part 1

We started our voyage on the 9th of December with one sick one (AM) and one very mischievous three year old. Thankfully, it was one of our smoothest travel experiences. Annmarie was very mellow and just went through the motions and Ben managed to keep it together. United Airlines finally updated their aircraft and we all had our own individual TV's with a generous movie and TV selection. We basically let the kids watch as much TV as they wanted until they fell asleep and they think this is such a treat because this would never fly (no pun intended) at home. There were a couple of hiccups along the way, but all and all there were no major issues. And by the end of the flights AM was well.

We brought the stroller along to help us get through the airport and Ben ended up taking a two hour sleep in it at SFO before we got our flight to AZ.

We stayed at my parents the first part of the trip. The kids had a bit of jet lag the first couple of days and the first night were up for a good two hours at 2am and then were still asleep at 10am. So I naturally took at least 20 pictures of them sleeping, these are just two of them.

We got Ben's hair cut our first morning there.

The following day, December 11th, our sweet Annmarie turned 7.  Star Wars, Lego and games, seemed to be the thing this year.  We had a pancake breakfast, the kids went swimming, and then later that evening we went out for Mexican food.

She requested the same cake I made for Jamie.
I'm also working on a video of Annmarie that I hope to organise and post.

Then we were off to Austin Texas, with NO kids for THREE nights for the wedding of the century. #finallyjk

Jamie has known the groom for nearly his entire life, so we wouldn't have missed it for the world, and considering we basically flew half way around it to get to it, we take that saying quite literally. The wedding was an absolute blast and I think they should just do it all over again.

The beginnings of Night 1.

The ceremony.

The evening ended at the Mini Bar off Sixth Street. Unfortunately I have no pictures from the bar.

Night two.
And all cleaned up.

The night was one big fun party with delicious food, great drink and even better friends.

Like I said - let's do it again.

We made sure we partook in some Texas barbecue.  It was awesomely good.

We spent some time with baby T and then headed out to dinner with her parents on our third night.

Jamie and Stevie.

My parents sent us this one.

Then after some Tacos we were headed back to AZ.

We rounded out our time in AZ, with a visit with some of Jamie's family, a trip to the mall to see Santa and time with Grandma and Papa.

Next San Francisco....