Christmas 2010

and what a SICK Christmas it was. The day after Christmas, Madelynn woke up complaining that her ear was hurting, and that night Payton was up all night crying... which as I have learned in the past... that almost always means her ears are hurting. So off we went to the Doctors office, of course being a Sunday, only walk in clinics were open. That was an experience, and a blog entry all on its own!! All that matters is that we got the girls checked out and on antibiotics!!! Gave them that first dose and you could tell they started to feel better. Were all on the mend still. Sometimes getting over this cold and congestion junk is worse than the initial few days your sick. All 3 kids are still coughing and their noses are running, but fever is no more, and ear aches are no more!!!! Were back home now too so that has been nice to be back in their familiar surroundings and in their own bed.

Anyways.... so I don't remember how much I wrote in my last blog because I have severe brain loss so if I repeat myself please forgive me.

Here we go.

We got in town late Sunday night, spent Monday (apart from the Doctors office) at my parents house and did Christmas with them that day. We had a great time and ate some de-licious food!

(my camera died while we were there so not many picts)

(sorry this is sideways??)

Madelynn in her adorable little sweat suit outfit that her aunties bought her... and holding her newest (addiction) movie. I'm thrilled that we are moving away from Alvin and the Chipmunks... were now onto "pewty peast" Got that??? $5 to the first one who knows what that means.

Payton was so content to only play with wrapping paper and boxes.

I (am the bomb) because I FINALLY surprised Nat with a gift on the day it was intended to be given to him. I'm sure I've talked about it before, how I can NEVER surprise him cuz he always guesses it, or I end up telling him. Yea, in the 5 years that we have been together I don't think i've ever pulled this off.

He was truly surprised, and came home and set up his new surround sound in our 500 sq foot house...

ready to see the saddest thing you ever saw???

my poor, sick boy. He looked pretty pitiful!

We had a great time. Its always nice to savor that family time just a little bit more than usual knowing we have to drive 230 miles home. My mom always has a way of making Christmas a special time for us... and even now as an adult, who's been out of the house for 3.5 years, I love to come "home" to that feeling.

Tuesday we spent the day with Nat's family and did Christmas with them... Where I seriously had the BEST ham sandwich I ever had. I'm not kiddin. I wish I could eat another one right now.

Not only did I surprise him once, but I pulled it off 2 times!! He had no clue. I was so proud of myself. This one was an air compressor. Nat's the kinda guy that talks and talks and talks about something he needs/wants but will NEVER buy it because he doesn't wanna spend the money on himself. So I found myself surfing black friday/cyber monday deals and these 2 things popped in my head. He has always, since the first day I knew him, talked about wanting an air compressor, but they were too expensive.... cuz if he were gonna buy one, it wasn't gonna be no 3 gallon one. Nope, it needed to be 20 gallons. He has borrowed his dads anytime he has ever needed one, so I thought this would be perfect since we've moved and don't have access to his dads anymore.

Notice her monkey slippers?? She loves them... and so do I cuz they keep her little tootsies warm. I hate cold feet. Now if only Payton would keep hers on.

"frunacks" Oh holy cow, forget everything else she got... all she cared about, talked about, and thought about was the dadgum fruit snacks.

She wasn't feeling to great that night. :(

Like I've said before, I have the greatest in-laws in the world and its always a good time when we are together. I Love that I have 2 special families in my life.

I started the tradition Madelynn's first Christmas that we would have jammies as ourChristmas Eve gift. I have had the girls all picked out and ready since October. But as we were in Texas, they were in New Mexico. I still ended up going to the store and buying them jammies (for having lack of) for the remainder of our stay in TX. so those were their Christmas eve gifts. Stetson got some for Christmas from U. Karl and A. Crystal so that worked out great for him... and yes, they're all miserably sick in this picture.

2010

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Wow!! add a kid a year. What a blessing that is. :)

Christmas day, Nat drove down early that morning with all the kids gifts that he wrapped (have I mentioned I'm married to the greatest guy ever?!??!) and we spent Christmas with my family. P girl was still feeling pretty bad that morning so she was not to into it, but good thing she has the greatest big sister of all who was right there willing, and ready to tear open her gifts for her. Madelynn really couldnt care less about what was in the wrapping paper, she just wanted to rip open the presents and move on.

This animals were the #1 hit for her. I bought these awhile back at Target in that little $1 section and she loves them. She plays with them all day long.

This was my -all time favorite, had to get it for her, oh my gosh can't wait to watch her open it and love it- gift for Madelynn. I've known I wanted to get her this for months!! Of course, only if she continued to like Toy Story. So when it came time for some Christmas shopping, she was still way into TS so I got it... and just my luck, about 3 weeks before Christmas, Toy Story isn't IT anymore. So needless to say, she was not so much into this gift and we pretty much should have saved our money. Every once in awhile she'll get it out and play with him. I'm still kinda bummed about this one. I'm hoping she'll ask to watch TS and kinda re-spark that love and love her woody.

This doll house was a pretty big hit for both the girls. I LOVE to sit and watch Madelynn play and use her imagination and make the people talk to each other. Now if we could only learn to play together...

this is pretty much how we saw Stetson 60% of the time. Breathing treatments every 3 hours around the clock. Luckily, he takes them pretty darn well for a 4 month old!

ever since he was 3 months old, this boy loves to stand!

Stetson and Payton already have a special little relationship going on. He can always spot her, and she is always watching out for him, and making him smile.

All in all, we had a very memorable 2010 and I can't wait to see what 2011 holds for us.

Oh and P.S.... we've *almost* made it to January and NO BABY ON THE WAY!!! Woo Hoo!!

lol. Thats kinda been a big joke this year. Were at that point where we've always started the new year with a positive pregnancy test... or thoughts of being pregnant. So far were safe on that one.