Visiting Idaho- Leading up to Christmas

We made it to Idaho for Christmas this year. We decided to fly since it is such a long drive.  Mia had her first plane ride. She seemed nervous during take-off and landing, but she handled it amazingly well. She was tapping the other people on the plane to get their attention, and was pretty wiggly.  On the way home she fell asleep for a little while. It made the flight go by much quicker.

 Here we are bring greeted by Dee's parents. They brought us a coat for Mia to wear since we don't have Idaho appropriate clothing in Arizona.

 Mia was glad to be off of the Plane and excited to have her coat on:) She didn't really like how big and puffy it was, I think she felt restricted in it but she was happy to have it once we got out in the cold. 

 Sunday morning we went to church, but Mia had to explore the Christmas decorations first.

 She also started practicing her somersaults this week, 

 After church we put her down for a nap in her sleeper to keep her cozy warm, but when she woke up she was ready to play with grandma. 

 Grandpa loves Karaoke, and had special Christmas microphones to use. They had a special way to make you have an elf voice.

 By the way... grandpa is ticklish. 

 The next day there was a dusting of snow and Mia had her first brief experience with the white stuff. she was confused, and was pretty timid. This snow didn't last very long and was melted in a couple of hours.

 Mia was also excited to explore a new house. Who knew pasta could be at arms reach? She was very helpful picking it up and putting it in the trash. She liked using the broom. I cant say that she didn't eat a couple of pieces.

Christmas Eve we went to Blackfoot to visit Dee's grandma and grandpa. Grandpa is in inpatient rehab after a fall, and we didn't manage to snap pictures while visiting him. Sorry grandpa. 

Mia took a liking to Great-grandma. 

...And her rocking chair.

While we were there Dee and his dad went through old photos and took pictures of some of them. way to slip in a little family history.

On Christmas Eve, Dee's family has a tradition of doing a Jerusalem Supper, where they dress up a characters from the bible, and eat pitas and olives and the like.





Here is Craig's family all dressed up.












And some of the food we enjoyed.

Then we were off to bed to get ready for the next day... well not really. We went out and saw Christmas lights and then stayed up all night talking 'till we almost couldn't see straight. Only then did we go to bed. Actually we stayed up late every night while we were there. Good thing we didn't have to work in the morning.