Christmas...all wrapped up in one LONG post

Sorry that I have not been on here to update much. We have had one crises after the other it seems in our house. We have had constant sickness since October and the latest one just about did us in. Alan was not feeling well for about a week and went to the dr. and was diagnosed with diabetes. Less than a week later he was at the dr.'s twice for a staph infection on his side that the first dr. misdiagnosed as an ingrown hair! So my focus has been on everyone else and not on this. We are all doing better now though.

In between all of this chaos were festivities for the boys at their schools and our holiday programs.

Blake was one of the Wiseman for our school's Christmas Program. Cutest wiseman I ever saw!!


Here is Alex at his performance. They did the Polar Express and got to wear their p.j.s and slippers to school. He actually sang and did the movements. It so made me cry, becuase at our old school he would stand there with his fingers in his mouth. I told him this year that no one would be watching him but mommy and daddy, and that all the other people that were there would be watching their own kids. This seemed to help a lot with his nerves.


We were lucky that since we had so much going on in our lives that Nena came to visit us for Christmas this year. It was nice not to have to drive the 12 hours each way to see her. Later the next week we all went to the North Pole to go visit Santa. Every year at Canyon lake we go up and they transform the recreation center into the North Pole. They have a library where the kids get to pick out a book of their own, the toy shop where they pick out a stuffed animal to take home, the bakery where they decorate sugar cookies, a fishing hole, hay rides, Santa, and much more. We go every year, but this year Alex was acting so grouchy. He finally let us know that he wasn't feeling well which is par for the course in the house right now so we cut out a little early. The neates thing about this is though is that the boys really believe that this in the REAL North Pole. It's the cutest thing ever.
North Pole Pics




Then the real fun began. Santa had to have cookies baked and reindeer food had to be sprinkled and Aunt Sarah arrived for a day so that we could spend some Christmas fun with her and open up our Wii that Nena, Grandpa and Aunt Sarah bought them! Overall we all had a great Christmas. Alan has two weeks off for the break and so do the boys and I. We don't go back until January 5th and until then we are going to enjoy each other and just relax at home playing our new toys, games and of course the Wii. Hope that everyone had a great Christmas and have a great New Years!

Making the Cookies For Santa...and for us!

Because you can never have too many sprinkles!

Sprinkling the reindeer food on the lawn so the reindeer have something to eat while Santa is dropping off our presents