Monday, December 22, 2008

WE ARE HOME!!

I am so happy to say that The Horton’s are back in El Paso, for 5 weeks but who cares we are home. I forget how much I love our house. There is nothing better than sitting in your own home, watching TV or cooking dinner. Those of you who don’t travel much miss out on the best part… COMING HOME!! I love to travel but I love coming home even more.
Over the last 3 month Alana and I have travel the country while I ran marathons and spending time family. John has been working. Poor John, but someone has to pay the bills and I am just too busy running and visiting family to think about getting a job.
In October, John headed to Houston for a two month rotation in Pediatric Surgery. Alana and I stayed behind for a little over a week and went for a visit only to come home for 3 days and head to Washington for me to run in The Marine Corps Marathon! We had a blast in Houston and in DC.
We made our way back to El Paso for a short time through Houston. Our time in El Paso was short and BUSY. I had so much to do to leave again and not return until Christmas. Alana and I got our Christmas tree up at the end of October. I wonder why it doesn’t feel like Christmas… I put my tree up 2 months ago. I was so glad when I walked in our house and everything was ready to go for Christmas!! Taking it down after only being home a week that’s another story.
At the beginning of November Alana and I headed back to Houston! John was ready for us to be with him longer than 4 days at a time. Little did he know, bring a girl this close to her family and expect her to leave and go see everyone. We had only been with John a few days and my mom and sister came to visit us in Houston. We had a blast, the kids loved being together. My sister really wanted to take Alana home with her, as much as I wanted the time with John it was hard letting her go. I kept telling myself it was only for 5 days. She would have so much fun it would be worth it. John loved the thought of having time together. I am telling it sounded great until day 2 when I was ready to have my princess back. It was weird having so much time with John without Alana running around. We had a great time going out to dinner and talking. We did talk about how lazy we must have been before having Alana.
I met my mom and dad in San Antonio the following weekend to get Alana back and run the San Antonio Marathon with my good friend Jennifer Smith. I was so happy to see Alana who by the way wanted nothing to do with me. Alana throw some good fits for me to show me what she thought about me leaving her. I didn’t care, I was so glad to be with her again. We had fun in San Antonio but Alana was ready to be with her daddy. So, we packed up once again and head for Houston. This time staying longer with John, well kind of we were at his brother’s house. He came out when he could, by Thanksgiving he was with us out there.
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving, spending it in Houston with John’s family. We don’t see them much. It’s hard for John to get time off so we don’t make it down there but every few years. It’s not a bad thing but his family isn’t big into traveling so they don’t get out too see us much. We are big travelers so it’s fine. I ran in a 10K race on Thanksgiving with Johns’ brother and sister in law. It was their first so it was tons of fun!
The Sunday after Thanksgiving we packed up and headed to San Antonio for John to do his burn rotation. Alana and I where only in San Antonio a few days before we packed up again, this time heading to Dallas to spend some time with my family and for me to run the Dallas Half Marathon with my Aunt. I always find a way to get my runs in there one way or another. We spend 11 days in Dallas. You could say John was ready for us to be home. It was icy the day I left he told he didn’t care just drive slow but come back. I was glad to be back with John but more than ready to be home in El Paso. By then Alana was more than ready to home also. Asking me everyday if we where going home today. She would tell me she could see our house in El Paso. She is such an amazing kid, not once did she give me a hard time about flying or driving some where she took every trip as it came and had a blast. She just adapts to the situation, still sleeps through the night and everything. Really, we are so blessed with such a wonderful little girl. I hope our next one adapts as well.
After only being back in San Antonio for a few days, just long enough to finish Christmas shopping and go to Sea World we headed home! Leaving John behind of course but just for a few days he will be home late Wednesday night.
That’s our last 3 months in a nut shell. We had a blast the whole time. So, much happened while we where gone. I will have to blog more about parts of our trip in the coming weeks. I haven’t wrapped any gifts, so I better get busy. We only have 2 days before Christmas!!

1 comment:

Hansen Family said...

We are so glad you are home. Now Carter can borrow Alana once in a while (ha ha)!