Sunday, February 15, 2009

Christmas 2008

I havent been in the mood for blogging lately but I think I'm back!! We'll see for how long, huh!! I'll try to go back before Christmas....Ok, so its near the beginning of Dec and we get a little knock at the door. I answer and no one is there. BUT, there are 2 bags with 6 boxes each of mac and cheese with a cute sign that says its from our secret friends. Well we get a little concerned because we're leaving for Okla on the last day of Ethan's school. If someones doing the 12 days for us, which is way sweet by the way, we'll miss about half of it. Somehow, our secret friends knew we were leaving and they doubled and tripled up on days for us. They were very creative and generous!! They totally knew our kids and what they liked. It was really fun. We got some cuddly blankets, oreo cakesters, toys, dvd's and more toys and fun stuff!! Anyway, that was way fun. We left our fave (central mkt) homemade marshmallows and some fancy hot choc for them one night for getting out in the cold to leave us a fun surprise. Gotta keep the gift givers warm!! ;)


Anyway, we left for Okla after Ethan got out of school on Friday before Christmas and had an absolute blast!! Props to Terina and Dave and boys of course for letting us reside at hotel Darcey!! Sorry about the bird by the way!! (hehehe, still not sure how that happened!!) We spent tons of time with aunt Jessie and company. The cousins were so much fun and Jessie and I of course had a slammin time as usual. I think Ed was there too. I'll check the pix, LOL j/k!! We all had a great time. If you're on facebook I have a whole photo album but I'll add a few here too. The pix on the header are from Christmas in Terina's fireplace.


The day we left we had made Zach wait til we were driving to take his first nap hoping that we would make it half or most of the way there by the time he was awake. Well, he slept, and he slept......and he slept. He would wake up and go right back down. It was strange but we thought it was maybe he was just really tired. He's never really been sick so that never entered our little heads. Well, by the time we got to Jessie and Chris's house he was fevering, of course. Its right before Christmas and we're out of town. Ahhhhhhhh!! Zach is totally a daddy's boy so when he's sick he only wants Ed. He was clinging to Ed like a spider monkey. As the night went on it was painfully obvious that he was more just a cold and being shy. Ed takes him the next morn to an emergency clinic(thank goodness for daddy!!) I slept in with the other kiddos! Zach had his first ear infection. It was so bad that the doc couldnt tell if his ear drum was perforated or not. He had so much gunk coming from his ear. Poor baby!! Anyway, $80 and no insurance later we got a fat bottle of the pink junk that heals anything and we were set. He was his cute self again almost right away!! Yeah for pink smelly meds!!


We had decided to do Christmas there but for Santa to also visit Texas too. So we got all the small fun stuff there and when we got back here Santa set up a huge bounce house in the living room for when the kiddos came in the living room it was like a mini jump for fun!! Ethan was the first to find it. He was so excited to get in and we had the balls that aunt Leona got for Zach inside. Aunt Leona rocks!! Overall we had a fantastic Christmas. Its awesome to have a long Christmas break with our fam!!


Here's a few pix....if you want to see more check out facebook. If you're not on facebook yet...sign up, dang it!! Facebook rocks!!












Ethan's homemade Santa suit



ear infection boy and gma Guidry