Christmas

Christmas Eve turned out to be the best day ever. 

At 9am there was  knock on the door, and it was a surprise Christmas present from Vince.

I almost peed my pants!!!!!

 I have had my eye on this piano for weeks and he kept saying no. Apparently he went and bought it the day after I saw it. Such a sneak. 

We had been quarantined to our house for days, and the kids deserved to do something fun, so went to the mall.....on Christmas EVE!  But it ended up being so fun. The stores were handing out goodies to the kids and Santa was fantastic! 

We only waited a few minutes to see him and I let the kids use all my quarters on rides. I do believe it was one of the best days of their lives! We even picked up Mcdonalds on the way home. Vince had to work in the morning and spent most of the afternoon at the hospital with his mom. I was still worried about spreading germs to her so we decided to wait one more day to see her. 

 I still can't believe Ivy didn't cry. She is TERRIFIED of Santa. He sang "Let it Go" from Frozen to her and she warmed right up!

We came home and started some festivities I had planned.  Cookie decorating for Santa

My basement tree has all handmade ornaments from the kids on it, and we decided to make one more to hang to on it. 

 They did these all on their own with minimal help from mom. They turned out so cute!

Daddy made it home from the hospital just in time for Christmas Jammies!

 I wanted to drive around and look at Christmas lights, but he wanted to have a fire in the fireplace. He said he had figured out how to make it work right finally. 

We started the fire and I told him the house was filling up with smoke, he didn't believe me. I could hardly breathe.  We turned on Mr. Bean's Christmas and two seconds into the show all the smoke detectors started going off. And they went off every few minutes. What a night!

We had to open the window. 

 I came up the stairs Christmas Eve to find Vince playing with his present he bought himself. I asked him if he was waiting for Santa....

Christmas morning was so joyful!

Facetiming with Grandpa and Gramdma Wheatley in Argentina. 

Everybody got a gun from Vince for Christmas

Even Ivy. 

 After breakfast we headed to Idaho Falls to go see Grandma in the hospital. 

She was not doing good so we only stayed 1 minute. 

We got about 5" of snow Christmas Eve so Vince spent the day plowing and I made a fabulous Christmas Dinner. It was a wonderful Christmas, even though it was the first one we have ever spent without family. 

December Happenings- Part 2

The amount of trips the girls and I take to Target are ridiculous...but they sure love to eat lunch there!

I swear we had the warmest December on record. No snow until Christmas Eve.

 Grandpa Wheatley's Christmas Party was on December 14th in Tremonton.  It was so fun to see everyone!

With Jane in Wyoming visiting her first Great Grandbaby who was in the hospital, Ivy got to come with me to get my hair done.  She was pretty good so the stylist put a purple tinsel in her hair. Best day ever. She did come home covered in hair though from playing on the floor....not so cool. 

 We got a security system installed and I LOVE IT!

 Bumpdate- 26 weeks

Polar Express day at school and Grinch Day. I forgot to send her to school in her pajamas on Polar Express Day, so glad she forgave me!

 On the 18th Abby flew in for a few hours with her "friend".

 He even let the kids get in the plane for a minute. So fun. 

Thanks for coming Abby!

 Jack was soooo disappointed that we didn't have Christmas lights on the house. We don't have a yard either so there weren't any lights on trees. I tried my best with the front porch.

And then wam bam thank you maam, we all got sick!

It started with Brooke,

 Then Ivy Jack and Me! I had kidney stones and the stomach flu.  I thought for sure the baby would die. It was awful.

 That same weekend, on December 20th, Grandma Jane had a terrible accident in Wyoming and fell down a flight of stairs breaking her arm and shoulder in multiple places and lots of ribs. She was flown back to Idaho and had surgery Christmas Eve. We were still a little sick by then and couldn't see her. Poor Vince ran back and forth from taking care of his mom and his family. It was a busy week!

On December 23rd the kids were better, and I was still recovering from the flu, so they hand delivered our neighbor gifts. 

We were just so glad that we were all better by Christmas Eve!