Daddy's home!!!

Finally, after nearly 2 weeks, he's home :) It was such a weird feeling dropping him off at the airport here. Not at all like being alone back home! I've never felt so stranded in my life! I kept thinking what if something happened to him? Or us? We are here by ourselves on the other side of the world! But i was ok, after a minute that freak out passed :) We kept ourselves busy, had cereal for dinner a few times :)
Poor hubby, he had his flight from Vegas to Chicago delayed, so he got stuck in chicago overnight. Then the flights to Abu Dhabi were all booked, so he had to fly through Toronto of all places to get here. Crazy! But he got me flip flops from Target, oh how i miss Target! There is nothing like the clearance section of Target to make a bad day go good.... sigh. He got monkey some shorts, as the shorts here, are not quite his style :) Plus they cost too much, 10 dollar shorts from Target, Hooray! Midget got a lovely purple bikini, and a lifeguard barbie... I still say grammie picked that out! I got cake stuff, woohoo! Thank you grammie, and the best thing that came home, and has eased one of my biggest worries.. I thought he was lost forever.....
Monkey's Soldier Bear!! His only stuffed animal he ever slept with, he's had him since he was 3 <3

Christmas...

The tree..

Not sure what to do with this....

The "boys" new toy.

A new guitar!

My sweet girl, took a sock of hers, tied curly ribbon to it, and got Sheldon a new toy for his stocking :) Is that one loved cat or what?

The loot :)
The elf's mess..

Fred was here again this year, but he wasn't as creative as before, he was a bit tired it seems. But XMAS even he tied a bunch of dirty laundry across the house to the tree! Silly elf...

Pretty park


There was a free aquarium at the park too.

Yes, they were pretending to be tied to the train tracks while we waited...

The train was far, far away.... and S...L...O...W...

more rolling...

WEEEEEEE!! and more rolling...

Daddy-o - this is the arena place, nice isn't it?

McD's and a park

The kids are in there!

Sheldon relaxing on XMAS

It's over, whew. We had a different kind of Christmas. Not bad exactly, just not the usual family filled kind. It was definitely relaxing. I've discovered I prefer the crazy running around to family houses :)
The kids enjoyed playing with all their new stuff. We had gotten them some things had we been at home they wouldn't have gotten. We figure this would be the year to spoil them, and it was a bit fun doing so. We got monkey the most beautiful guitar. He was thrilled with that, and his music teacher will be also. Midget got a little keyboard, and their has been music through the house ever since. That i love! She also got a vanity desk for her room. The room is the size of texas, so she has wanted one, and her toy one was left behind. This will grown with her, and it's just so cute to watch her sit their and look at herself. Monkey's big gift, or should i say dad's big gift to monkey and himself was a helicopter. This thing flies!! It also helps with the open 3 story ceiling, not that we would allow the kids to do that, but we did :)
During the break we also found a great park, it has a huge open theater in it, and a train and some great playground equipment. I never knew how much i missed grass! It's here at parks and stuff, but not in our yard. The kids had a great time, and we got to sit in the grass and relax.
So Christmas is done, we missed home and our family. I've started counting down to the summer break, which is way to far away!! Dad is counting down to some other trip we are trying to squeeze in before hand also. Me, i am fantacizing about sonic, chik-fil-a, mom's, grammie's, grandpa. cousins, and Target!! So whoever picks us up at the airport, be ready for a fast-food run!!
Love to you all, and we miss you!