Steven and I finally arrived in Kansas City! And there were no blunders in the airport. (Okay, that’s a lie. We were all on the plane ready to take off, and they made all the passengers get off the plane, walk to another terminal and load onto another plane. Whatever.)

We are having a Christmas dinner and opening gifts with Steven’s family today. My mother-in-law came up to me this morning to tell me merry Christmas and that there were going to be some extra guests during our dinner.

“Great!” I said, “Are they people I know?”

“Yes,” she answered mysteriously.

“Oh,” I replied, somewhat worried. “Who are they?”

“Your parents!”

“What?!”

So apparently my parents and brother are driving to Kansas City (from Iowa) to pick up a car and decided to surprise me by joining us for dinner. Those schemers!

What a great surprise though!