Back to the doctor today. For me this time. I have caught the same gunk as the kids. So 3 out of 4 of us in the house are on meds!

We had a very low key weekend. I went to Sams club on Saturday after I got a massage! Wow I forgot how much I liked them it's been well over a year since my last one, way too long! The kids seem to be doing better. Braydens fever finally went away after 4 days. I really hate when he is sick! So much to worry about with the seizures he has! We are getting really for the Dells, yeah can't wait to leave!

Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year! It is so nice to look around and see the christmas lights shining and so much snow on the ground this year. We have gotten quite a few inches in the last week.

Saturday night Aunt Kelly, Lyndie, Luke and Mitch came out. They picked up chicken on there way out and we opened a few gifts. Fun was had by all! Escpecially the kids using each others phones to text and take pictures with.

The kids really enjoyed Christmas this year. On Christmas Eve Santa came to grandma and grandpas and there were no tears shed. Brayden and Alexis jumped up and down when he walked in the door. Right after santa came we were off to church! Alexis was an angel again in the childrens program she did a wonderful job(yawning the whole time). Then we went back to grandma and grandpas for dinner and to open gifts. The kids got in there jammies. We all enjoyed ourselves.

On Christmas Day we woke up to presents in our stockings. Santa must have thought the kids were good this year:) We opened our gifts then went down to grandma and grandpas for lunch. Yummy it was very good! Then we were off to Emmy and Daves house in Richfield. Just as we were getting in the car to go there it started to snow. Once we got on the freeway there were cars in the ditch all over! But we drove carefully and made it there safely. The kids had lots of fun with there cousins and aunts and uncles.

I can't believe that Christmas is done and now we are looking into a new year! Where does the time go. Now we look forward to our little mini vacation at the dells and Brayden will turn 3 before we know it, February 2nd.

On a side note. I had both kids to the doctor today. They both have strep. We have them both on medicine. Glad we caught it in time so they are feeling better next week for the dells. Brayden also has some weird rash and puffy face going on so we are suppose to watch it and if its not better by monday bring him back in. Hopefully this medicine will work!

Here are a bunch of pictures from our Christmas:

Lyndie, Brayden, Alexis and Luke talking on the phones and texting

Brayden with his John Deere sweatshirt

Aunt Kelly and Brayden texting and wearing her glasses

Our tree

Santa came to grandma and grandpas. The kids were very excited!

Sitting on Santas lap with Nathan and Nicholas looking on.

Our little angel(the 3rd one)

The angels waiting for the others to arrive

Nathan, Nicholas, Alexis and Brayden

So excited to see his gift a piano

Brayden taking a picture of his new gift a floating fish. Aunt Amy and Alexis in the background

The fish moves

Brayden

Alexis

Pictures from the last few weeks

Decorating the tree

Riley playing with the animals

Today at Alexis' preschool-the kids were singing

All the kids running to there parents with there gifts.

Alexis coloring with Jason

Decorating her cupcake

Alexism Brayden, Mom and I were wrapping gifts for some familys preschool was sponsoring

Oh My Goodness!

I am so proud of Alexis we opened up a new book tonight and I thought I would see if she new any of the words. Well she started to read a few of the words and with my help with the others she got through the whole book. This is the first time she has read any type of book I am so proud of her:) I can't believe it, it seems to have just clicked for her:):):)

I am one very very proud, happy and elated mommy:)

Happy Birthday Dad!!:)
Happy 1st Birthday Tyler!

I don't know where the time has gone or what we have done in the last 9 days:)

I have been busy writing out our christmas cards. I put them in the mail on Saturday. I had them in an envelope box because there were 90 of them and I thought that would be easier for our mail lady. She must of thought I was trying to send a package or something, I don't know, because she didn't take them. So anyways all of your cards are in the mail!:) Because I was stalking her to see if she would take them or not, and she did today after Jason wrote a note to look inside of it.

I have also been busy wrapping presents, and wrapping and wrapping. I'm still not done but should be by tomorrow.

The kids are getting excited for Santa to come and visit. Alexis has her preschool program on Friday, and then has 2 weeks off of preschool. I will have lots of pictures to share in the next couple of weeks.

I can't believe it is almost January! We leave for the dells in 15 days:)

We had a pretty low key weekend. Alexis and I went to church on Saturday morning for play practice for the childrens mass on christmas eve. She of course wanted to be an angel again(this will be the third year in a row). We tried to talk her into being something else but she really enjoys being and angel and holding her arms out. Saturday night we had Tami and Ryan out for a fun night of cards and pizza.

Today after sunday school we dropped off Jason, Grandpa and the kids at the shed to get the snowmobiles. The kids had so much fun they didn't want to stop. They made it all the way back home safely. Both kids fell asleep about 10 minutes from home. Me and mom went shopping so there are no pictures from the ride but I am sure they will be doing more snowmobiling soon. We need a little more snow though.

Hope everyone has a great week! You should be receiving our Christmas cards by the end of the week if I have time to get them out:)

It's begining to look a lot like Chrismas:)

I am feeling a little better about Christmas coming so quickly. We went and picked up a tree in town on Tuesday. Jason brought it in last night and the kids and I decorated it this morning. I also took pictures of the kids for our Christmas cards this morning. I am making our Christmas card with the Storybook Creater Plus software from Creative Memories and am loving it. I have designed 9 different cards so far and now just need to pick one out. Both kids have picked there favorites now we need daddy to pick his. Jason and I also decorated the house up last night. Here are a few pictures:

Pictures from the weekend

Alexis concentrating on decorating cookies.

Brayden decided this was better than making cookies!

Oh No Our little gingerbread house collapsed

It's finally beginning to feel like Christmas. It snowed here on Satruday, we didn't get as much as they originally thought but its nice to see the white ground instead of the brown one:)

We tried to get our Christmas tree tonight but they were all out of the bigger ones. So we decided to wait and try a different place in town. The kids were a little bummed however I told Alexis we could decorate the house up tomorrow and that perked her up a bit.

We have been busy making, decorating and eating cookies all weekend. I will have to post a picture of Alexis decorating the cut out cookies. She had such a great time putting just the right amount of frosting on and sprinkling them with the colored sugar. She also helped us dip the pretzels in the white bark.

Alexis had a play date on Friday with one of her little friends from preschool, Gracie. She came home and was so happy and excited to be able to spend time away from home at a friends house. Her mom said that they hit it off and had such a great time. I'm sure we will be seeing a lot more of them together:)