Merry Christmas

Just so you know Jake had to file off his callouses before taking this picture.

I love Avery's smile in this picture.


I meant to get these pictures up earlier, but here some pictures we took for our Christmas cards and some that didn't quite make the cut but are cute just the same. Hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas.

Personal post

I dont' usually blog about myself, because my kids are so much more interesting, but I as I am sitting here in my hospital bed, I am going to make a little post about what has happened in my life the past few days. First of all I found out I was pregnant a week ago Sunday, but later in the week I started to have some really bad pain in my lower stomach. I went to the ER on Thursday night, they checked for an ectopic pregnancy, which they didn't think they found. I continued to be in a lot of pain, and made an appointment with my OB on Monday, who wanted to re run the tests they had done on Thursday. They did an ultra sound and found a lot of dense fluid , so they called my doctor to come and do surgery on me. I had had an ectopic pregnancy that had ruptured. The doctor took out about a liter and a half of blood out of my stomach, and had to remove my left fallopian tube and some of my left ovary. As difficult as that was to deal with, the doctor has told me we should be able to get pregnant again, he said my other tube and ovary looked just fine. The moral of the story is (if you are from Chicago and know the Vista Hospital) avoid Vista ER, they should have had me in surgery 5 days ago, and I could be home spending my birthday with my family instead of being alone in this hospital room. Sorry for such a depressing post.

A time for goofy hats.

Avery posing for a picture with her reindeer hat on.

Jake not wanting his picture taken with the elf hat on, and Libby sneaking in the picture. Jake is worried his friends from school will make fun of him for this picture. (that's what I was going for)

Boxes make the best toys.

Great after bath time activity. Perfect for settling the kids down for bed.

Gingerbread House and stuff

Our FHE activity this week was to make a gingerbread house. We weren't sure how it would go over with the kids but they loved it. They mostly liked eating the stuff, but Libby did like helping to decorate.

We had lots of leftover icing, so Jake let the girls eat it. What can I say my kids love sugar.

Avery is patiently waiting for her turn again.

I got these elf hats yesterday and the girls thought it was great to wear them. Avery put her's on and then turns to me and says cheese, so I of course went and got the camera.

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Sledding

Might have been over kill with all the snow clothes but I didn't want to deal with wet cold kids afterward. Plus they are kid of cute all decked out.

We got a little bit more snow last night, and Libby was so excited and convinced me to take her sledding. Avery had a hard time walking in her snow clothes, and kept falling, she reminded me of the little brother on the movie "A Christmas Story."

Let it snow

Today was to first snow of the season, so we celebrated. Yes I do like snow, I know that might be hard for some people to understand, namely my husband, but it can be a lot of fun. Like today I took that kids out to play in the falling snow. Libby really wanted to go sledding and didn't understand that we need a lot more snow before we can go sledding. Avery was just happy to be outside.

Sorry the picture is blurry, but if you look close you can tell it is snowing.

We also made snow flakes. I use the term "we" loosely, because mostly I made the snowflakes, because Liberty cut her own hair the other day so she is grounded from the scissors for a long time. She did get to help me tape it to the window.

Christmas Tree

Jake put up the tree last Friday but I hadn't got around to uploading the pictures off the camera till today. So here are some pictures of the tree. Sorry no kids in the pictures. Libby didn't feel well that day so she mostly laid on the couch while we decorated the tree and there was no way Avery would have been any help during this process so she took a nap during the decorating.

Fun with a box

We don't need to buy Christmas presents this year, all we need are some boxes, and kids will be set.