We had a Great time going home for Thanksgiving. We travel through the night so that when the kids wake up we are about 30 minutes from grandmas house. This is the only way to travel. The only way. There's something about Cache Valley that gets in my blood every time we go home. I love it!!! I love that everything is on Main Street, with easy access to all stores. I love that I know the back roads to take to get to places faster. I love that Zollingers still had there apple cider to buy. It's the best apple cider on the planet. No really, come over because I brought some home. I love seeing the Logan Temple up on the hill and thinking back to the days where we lived 2 minutes away from it. But I guess most of all, I love going home. I loved seeing my dad in the kitchen making waffles for us as we pulled in, and my mom watching for us out the window. I love being in the home I grew up in. I like going into my old room and thinking- "if these walls could talk, we'd be here a long time," even though it's turned into the food storage room. :) I love, love, love being with my brother and sister and there families. We ate, laughed until our stomachs hurt, ate some more, had treasure hunts with grandpa, grandma didn't disappoint with Christmas presents, Frosty the Snowman brought awesome gifts for the kids and very much appreciated out to dinner gift cards for the moms and dads, and overall it was absolutley the Best! Tyler always asks me when we're there if I want to move back. And my answer is always of course I do! I'm surrounded by family and I love it. But that's also because I AM back home and he's asking me when I'm caught up in the moment of everything. I love WA too, but sometimes......
Anyway, the goofy thing is that we take our camera and then never take a picture. Dumb? Yes it is. Maybe one day we'll do it. Sadly it ws over and we had to come back to this home. I'm torn at the moment between homes can you tell. The drive back was just as good as on the way. Traveling is so much better when you don't have to worry about ice and snow. And I always wake up when we're going through Lime, Oregon. What the heck kind of a place is that? For some reason it always makes me smile. I'm weird I know. And I just want to also say that my oh so fabulous sister in law put all my blogs together in a book for me and I love it. I honestly wouldn't have done that, and I am so glad that she did. I'm rambling but I'm done. We are "home" and staying here for Christmas. My first one not in Utah and not with family. Mission doesn't count. But, my parents are coming up here to spend Christmas with us. And I am excited for that. Oh, and channel 942 has Christmas music all day long and it has put me in the best mood of my life.
2 comments:
Ahhhh, Beck. I'm so glad you had a good time at home. You're right, Cache Valley does give a little tug at the heartstrings. But I believe part of that is the leaving...and then coming back. If you moved back, you'd lose some of those tingly feelings.
Your family is the cutest. I loved seeing the picture of you 3 cute girls on Amy's blog. What a fun time. Families that love each other just make me feel all warm inside.
Good luck with your first at home Christmas. We did ours last year, and I gotta say...I anticipated an internal struggle. But I loved it, and I'm looking forward to it again this year!
You are making me homesick and I live 30 min from where I grew up!! I am so glad you got to go home and had such an awesome time. Maybe someday you guys will get back there because there is nothing like being near family and living in a town where everybody knows your name :)
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