Christmas day

This year we had the joy of spending a few nights at Phillip's parents house and were there for all the Christmas Eve festivities and family. We stayed up late opening presents and watching a movie, and got up early to hit the road. We knew there was a bad storm in Oklahoma, but thought they would have cleared the roads by the time we got there. As SOON as we hit the Oklahoma border, the roads immediately changed. It was the strangest thing! It was like we were all the sudden driving on a back road, you couldn't even see the black of the road....just frozen snow and ice. As we kept poking along, it never got better! We kept expecting it to change at any moment, but really it only got worse. We had to go so slow, and cars were sliding into the ditch all around us. Because it was Christmas day, nothing was open. We kept laughing because McDonalds was actually sounding really good to us and we kept hoping to find one open, but to no avail. We stopped at two different hotels just so the kids could run around, and QT was the hopping place of the day. By the time we got to Oklahoma City, we ended up staying the night because it was dark, icy and we'd heard the roads would not get any better. The girls swam in their underwear, Canon in his diaper, and we ordered Pizza in our hotel room. With no milk and one diaper left, we hit the road early the next day and couldn't believe that the roads were still so bad. They never got better until about 30 minutes before the Texas border. Then they were fine! It was so strange. All in all, we counted 220 cars in the ditch and at least 15 major wrecks. We even saw one truck slide up a hill and flip over. We are so blessed by our 4 wheel drive! We were really excited to finally get to Dallas that morning. The kids were great in the car, but we were all ready to get out:) We'll never forget that Christmas, where we drove ALL day on those roads and spent the night in a hotel, swimming in their underwear, eating pizza because we were starving, and snuggling together in the bed:)
More posts and pictures of our Christmas to come...