Christmas and New Years

We have had a very busy month. Matt did survive his first set of law school finals. Within 12 hours of his last final we were boarding our flight to California to spend Christmas with Matt's family. Joseph was an angel on the airplane. However, he did have harder time in the 2 hour car ride up to Bakersfield. It was great to see all of Matt's siblings. We couldn't believe how big Chloe and Hudson are getting. Adjusting Joseph to the 2 hour time change was an experience I wouldn't care to repeat, but overall he did pretty good. Christmas morning Joseph had quite a large pile of presents. He didn't quite grasp the unwrapping concept, and was even more confused when he couldn't pull the toys out of their boxes (dumb twisty tie things). Coming home was 5 times harder then going out. First we had an accident in LA making us late to the airport, we had some of our Christmas money stolen at LAX, Joseph struggled on the plane and couldn't get up to walk due to turbulences, and the tubulences were making me sick. Sounds fun right? However, we made it home!!!! Joseph was thrilled to sleep in his own bed (as were we). We spent a wonderful 2 days with my family for New Years. I got to see my sisters and play games with my family. Some every exciting news is the Joseph walked!! He took 4 steps so we are counting it!!! Now we have 2 weeks before Matt disappears back into law school. So much to do... so little time!