Tarynn Paschall

We ended up changing our minds about Christmas. We’re no longer going to Oregon. We’re staying home instead. To be quite honest, I’m THRILLED! I didn’t want to go to Oregon all that badly anyways, and I’m so happy to be able to have Christmas here, with our family, in our own home. Driving all day Christmas Eve instead of going to my Grandma’s Christmas Eve party just didn’t seem right, and neither did Kaelyn waking up on Christmas morning in her car seat.

The main reason we were planning on going was because we wanted to see my brother. For those of you who don’t remember or never read about it, he moved to Idaho to take care of our little 1/2 sister Ella and her mom, Kendell. You can read the whole story here After Ella’s mom got out of jail, Tyler moved to Idaho to get an apartment for the three of them and help her get back on her feet. So anyways, I really didn’t want him to miss Kaelyn’s first Christmas, and he didn’t want to miss it either. Thus, we were going to Oregon. He was going to meet us there and we were all going to stay with my Aunt and Uncle.  But, we convinced him to come down here and stay with us instead.

I’m SO excited! We’re going to get a Christmas tree and decorate everything on Friday (we weren’t planning on going all out if we were going to be gone for the whole week of Christmas). And it is going to be exactly like Christmas should be: at home, with family.

Anyways, I’m getting sidetracked. Since Kaelyn won’t be seeing any snow in Oregon, and since it certainly doesn’t snow where we live, we took her to Big Bear this weekend to see snow for the very first time. It was a blast! Here are a few pictures from the trip :)