Happy Christmas

I can't tell you how much I love Christmas. Not only do I love to shop and pick out presents for everyone, but my kids have made it SO special. I used to not be able to sleep, because I couldn't wait to see what Santa brought me. Now, I still can't sleep because I can't wait to see the look on my kids faces when they see what Santa brought them. It is the best moment of every year. And I am never disapointed. Look at my sweet babies right before we woke them up. They are amazing. Here is the video of us forcing them awake at 7am, because we just can't wait any longer!!!

Jack is barely awake, but he is so excited!

A little bit later into opening presents....


Max is so cool listening to his new mp3 player and Jack is enjoying everything!












We're all dressed up and ready to go to Grama Pat's for lunch! I didn't get any pictures there- it was so crazy with the big storm, all the people, and our white elephant. I love that white elephant by the way. Everyone ends up with something really good and it is always so fun to play with our huge family. PS thanks for the team work Nicole and Aaron,hee hee hee. We are good!! We ended the day with dinner at Linda's. Patti made us a wonderful meal and we had so much fun playing with all the boys. Little Lukey is getting so fun! He was our little Christmas Elf :) I can't wait till him and Jack are running around together.














My Mom and Tony are awesome. They always have their Christmas party a few days before or a few days after Christmas so that we don't just squeeze them in on Christmas day. We actually get to hang out for as long as we want! It is so nice. They made us an AMAZING meal. It was so delicious. My mom made special holiday drinks with champagne, pom juice, and sugared ginger- MMM! My Mom and Tony bought a a trip to Lake Powell on a houseboat- oh man I cannot wait till JUNE!!
I was so happy to hang out with my little shadow, Justine, and all of my other crazy relatives. Justine wouldn't put Jack down the entire time, she is so sweet! I can't wait to go shopping in a few days for her 12th bday!!
Little Marley- I barely got to see you- all the grandparents were hogging you, but I guess they do get first dibs. We will play soon love!






Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

Christmas Eve

After a long day of making gingerbread trains, and cake, the boys and I headed over to Grampa Dan's house for our annual Christmas Eve dinner.

It was delicious!!

We had prime rib, asparagus, red potatoes, and oh yeah- fresh escargo- yum!!

My dad is an amazing cook and we all ate till we couldn't stuff in one more bite!

We opened presents and played games, it was so fun to hang out with the fam!

Look how happy Jack is and how sad Reese is in his new jacket, ha ha.

Max LOVED his Ben 1o toys from Grampa

Jack trying his first snail- he loved it and ended up eating 3!

Park and Lish's first Christmas married!! Oh sorry Ty- Whit was invisible that night- we missed you Whit!!!!

Grampa also bought Max the new Goosebumps video game- I was so jealous!

Grampa and Jack playing with his new toy

Thanks Dad for another wonderful Christmas Eve together.

I can't wait for Jan 10th! My Dad and Beth bought us tickets to see Aaron Lewis in Wendover- we are so excited!!!

Cookies for Santa, Gingerbread Train for Grampa

Look at all these cute kiddos

Damn that's a lot of sprinkles :) Nice job Maxxy!!

Look at our masterpiece!!

We're ready for Santa !!

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!!

My Favorite Parts of My Favorite Christmas Movies

My Baby's Feeling Good!

2 whole days without neb treatments and still breathing fine!

Woo hoo!!

Our FUN Weekend

Friday

We had our annual dinner with tthe Kryger Family.

This year we went to Buca Di Beppo and the food was delish, plus we got the table with the Pope's head in a plastic case in the middle, ha ha. It is always a good time with these guys. We missed Tony though- he was stuck at work cause of the storm. I wish I would've taken more pictures!!

Thanks Momma for dinner!!!

It is always fun to hang out with my bros and their woman too.

Saturday

Matt and I had a long needed date night.

We went to Tepanyaki with Matt's work. It is one of our favorite nights of the year- the big bosses pay for everyone so of course we all take advantage and eat the best and most food that we can! I had sake (mm) with TONS of sush everywhere- flying fish eggs is always my favorite, and my meal which was lobster, king crab legs, and filet mignon. Yep it was AMAZING! We went to the bar after with Matt's bro and Matt's friend Jessie and Natalie. It was so fun and such a nice adult time :)

Love ya Matty!!

Sunday

Lou, Chase, and Marley girl came over for our own Christmas dinner. We made yummy steak, fresh Alaska Salmon (thanks dad!) spinach salad, and artichoke parmesan bread. We loved the food, but we were most excited about the presents!! Lou and Chase are my favorite people to buy presents for and to recieve presents from!! They are crazy and wrapped up every different 40oz beer from the store, so Matt got this heavy sack with all these wrapped beers in it, it was awesome. I got some darling clothes that Chase even helped pick out! Jack got a DARLING Ed Hardy hoody, and Max got toys that he is still googling over :) Thanks guys! We had such a fun night and I can't wait till New Year's!!!

(PS I hope you like your presents!! Matt was just as excited about the Absinthe as Chase was, ha ha. That will make for a fun night!! And Marley's scrapbook and Batman Barbies were SO fun for me to do! I love having a little girl around!!!)

LOVE YOU GUYS!!

The Nebulizer

Charlie thought a nebulizer would help control Jack's

wheezing and rapid breathing.
I used to have one of these when I was younger.

Mine didn't have a cool dinosaur mask though.

Here is Jack's first treatment at home:

Curiousity:

Anger:
Acceptance:
I seems to be helping a lot! Yay!

Sick

Jack and Max have been sick off and on for months. Anyone that knows me knows that I like to avoid doctor's offices and medicine as much as possible, BUT the boys just keep getting sick! I took Jack to Instacare this morning, he isn't eating/drinking and is very lethargic (which is the extreme opposite of the normal him) And he has had a fever, vomitting, and wheezing....again. He is already on the brink of asthma, so this doesn't help. They did a neb treatment on him, then luckily he drank some pedialyte so they didn't have to give him IV fluids. His lungs were rattley so they did a chest xray. It was the saddest thing ever!! See the picture below:

He was in the plastic tube with him arms in the air and he was much more upset than the calm child in the picture. Oh it was AWFUL!!
Well, his xray showed signs of pneumonia and he also has an ear infection.
Poor little bug.
So now we are stocked up on augmentin/tylenol/ibufprofen/albuterol inhaler/pedialyte.
Get better soon my love.

Annual Christmas Party at the Church

The kiddos waiting for Santa and Mrs. Claus!Big Jack was checking out Santa and so Santa picked him up, he got freaked out about 2 seconds later, ha ha.

My MAX is so handsome!!! And Brooky is always ready to pose for me :)

Does it seem like there were more people this year than normal- Holy crap! Am I really related to all these people?

Andrew may be small- but he is a tough guy


The CHAOS after the pinata breaks...


I love these last 2 pics, Matt was making Jack crack up :)

Until next year.....

Zoo Lights=Amazing

WOW.

The lights at Hogle Zoo are amazing.

Yeah it was cold but we warmed up with hot cocoa and fried smores.

I recommend this to everyone!!

The whole park was lit up with lights- Awesome!

Even little Marley May got to join us, she was snuggled warm in her momma's coat. Can you believe they have a light to look like their famous drinking fountain?? This was my favorite one!

For $2 extra you got these hologram glasses that turned every light into a snowman! If you click on the picture below, you can see them! It was amazing. I don't understand how it works really- it even turns the moon into a snowman! Linds says she gets it but I don't know....