And now we are home.

We got up early saturday morning, packed everything up very creatively, and headed home. Once again, Maya and Alex both did great. Alex slept more this time. Maya slept a lot, in fact we only stopped once at about the halfway point and got gas and food and then were able to go the rest of the way home.

We've all been having a great time playing with Alex's new toys. I mean Alex has been having a great time playing with his new toys.

And we unpack again

....the circus now unpacks and sets up in Green Bay at my parents house. At least we are staying in one spot for a little while at this point! Mom and I got a little after Christmas shopping in, Alex got lots of playtime, we all played more guitar hero and friday we got to hang out with Joy, Doug and Maddie!

Pictures please!

I have gaps in our trip in my pictures and I know some of you got some great shots so please everyone - send me your pictures!

Guitar Hero, cake, cousins....

what more could a kid ask for?

Alex and Maya both crashed on the way from New London to Green Bay. Alex fell asleep reading a book so I grabbed the book from him so he wouldn't drop it......his eyes popped open and he yelled "HEY! I was reading that!" Not even 2 minutes later I turned around and he was back asleep before he even had a chance to open the book - you can see the mark where the book was resting against his face:

And we're off

After some creative packing we picked up the circus and headed south to New London. Alex had been talking about seeing his cousins for weeks so he was pretty excited. Ben and I were pretty excited that both kids slept the entire 2 hours from Rhinelander to New London!

6 am Christmas morning

Alex: "Uncle Matt, I need Obie." (Obie is my parent's dog)

Matt: "You need Obie? He's upstairs sleeping"

Alex: "Oh. I need Daddy."

Matt: "Daddy is right over there with Mommy and Maya"

Alex: "Ok. HEY! I bet Santa Claus came!" Let's go see!"

Band of gypsies

or a traveling circus...that's what we felt like over the holidays.

We left our house nervously early in the morning on December 22nd. Maya had never been in the car more than 30 minutes.

8.5 hours and about a million "are we in Grandma Ruth's neighborhood"s later (yes, Alex has reached the age of are we there yet) we arrived in Rhinelander. Maya was amazing. Alex did awesome too, despite all the questions and the fact that he only slept for about 40 minutes of the trip.

We had to tweak the sleeping arrangements a bit after the first night that resulted in everyone in the house being awake around 4am due to a chain reaction that started with Maya waking up and needing to be changed. But after that both Maya and Alex slept just as well on the go where ever we stayed as they do at home.

Sunday we visited Grandma and Grandpa Bergeon. We had a good snowstorm. In the evening we had an adventure on unplowed roads going out to Kim and Jim's. We had a great time there. Alex was in awe of all their Christmas decorations and lights and he and my cousin's daughter Katie had a pretty serious air hockey tournament going!

Christmas Eve......great to see everyone! Jared, Zoe and Wes - we missed you, hope you had a great Christmas. As you can tell from the pictures Alex and Katie had fun together!