Our trip home for the holidays

Trips home for the holidays involve what I call making the 'great circle route'. We leave Dallas and head to Shreveport, La. and from there we head to Baton Rouge. Only this time Marc wanted to see how the GPS system would bring us. Wouldn't you know it was set to AVOID main highways, so it brought us through all the little po-dunk towns LOL... And in one of those little towns at 3am we get stopped by a police officer. God has give us so much of His favor and grace because he could have given us a speeding ticket but didn't. He gave Marc a non-moving violation instead. You know how little towns are, you see the speed limit sign and slow down but you don't have quite enough time to slow down by the time you see it.. :)

So a 7 hour trip turned into 12 hours. The GPS directed us all the way to the ferry in Port Allen! We never had to get on the ferry to get to Gonzales, so we had a big laugh at 6am when we rolled up in front of that. We stayed at my dads a few days and I got see my new niece. From there we went to Osyka, Ms. to see my mom. The kids loved running around on 60 acres in the country. We also visited New Orleans and went to the aquarium of th Americas as well. From there, we went to Monroe, La. and stayed with Marc's parents for a few days. By the time we got home, I was so glad to sleep in my bed. It was great to be home..


Pictures with my twin sister Lon and her husband Milton along with Marc, Joshua and Morgan. Both Lon and I are professional photographers, so guess who took the picture??? We framed up the shot the way we wanted it , bribed the kiddos to smile, Lon set the timer and then ran into the shot. We did this 5 times to get the perfect one:)
Lon and Milton
Des and Lon
Morgan at Grandma's house with Sadee
Morgan and Joshua loved the haystacks and only wanted to play them the entire time at Grandma and Pee Paw's house.