Leaving on a JET Plane!

We flew home on New Years Day. 

A week is never long enough to visit with 

family and friends but that's all 

we could do with Daddy's new job.

We got to the airport and we were 

very worried because the gate we were 

assigned to had our flight and 

the flight before our flight severely delayed! 

Both flights were going to Denver but 

they assured us that even though our flight was 

delayed the plane was coming out of Denver and we 

would make our connecting flight.

There was a HUGE winter storm moving

across the Midwest and the flight before ours 

kept getting pushed farther and farther back because 

their plane was coming from Chicago where the storm was 

hitting hard! 

The boys did amazing waiting!

Just playing games 

(Thank you technology!)

We decided to eat there as well and 

after an extra 2 hours of waiting we were on our way! 

It felt very strange to be leaving the other passengers

there; when we were going to the same city and 

their flight was supposed to leave before ours!

But we were grateful to be on our way before 

that HUGE storm hit Pittsburgh and we would 

have been stuck there! 

We made it to Denver and RAN 

to our next gate! 

Denver is HUGE and of course 

they didn't have our gates close to each other! 

(Again we will NOT be making the mistake of not taking a stroller again!)

We made it to our gate with only minutes to spare as they were already 

boarding the A and B groups! 

But then we got on the plane and SAT there for another 

HOUR or more ON the plane!! 

Because of all the delays due to the storm in the 

Midwest the computers in Denver were having issues! 

The computers wouldn't let some 

of the people who had been rerouted on 

to the plane so they had to fix that and 

because of the storm and all of the cancellations 

they couldn't/didn't want to leave anyone there!

We finally made it up in the air 

and back to Seattle! 

We arrived a little over 2 hours later 

than expected and we still owe our friends 

who came and picked us up an AMAZING thank you gift! 

Thank you! Thank you! 

For coming to get us after 2 AM in the morning! 

The boys did AMAZING and they all slept 

during the second half of the trip. 

When we got into Seattle we grabbed a 

Smartcart thingy and loaded everyone and 

everything up so we could walk to baggage claim 

with minimal tears!

(After all it was 5 am EST!!)

We thank our Heavenly Father for our safe travels 

and for our ability to get out of Pittsburgh before 

the Huge storm hit!

We also thank our family for having us 

and making it an amazing holiday season! 

We love and miss you all!