Christmas 2010

Christmas Day was wonderful for our family. The month leading up to that, however, was not! Trying to recover from my last biochemo treatment (which was a doozy), dealing with a sinus infection and a bad rash (an allergic reaction from an antibiotic) that kept me from sleeping well, starting my first maitenance therapy and getting scans, all the while trying to take care of kids, the house, and get ready for Christmas really put me into a tail-spin this month. I just wanted Christmas to be over! But it all turned out to be great. We headed to Logan for the weekend and stayed with Eric's dad. It was peaceful and quiet, just what I needed. The kids had a blast Christmas morning opening presents and stockings and it was fun to be able to be with grandparents for that. Christmas evening we got together with the WHOLE family at Salli's house (minus Erin and Ryan, sad!) and had a family recipe exchange and watched the cousins exchange gifts. That is always chaos, but fun nevertheless. It was so wonderful to be with the family and catch up, although I don't feel we did enough of that!

Austin was a sheep for the nativity scene we acted out Christmas Eve (Carson was a wiseman and wouldn't cooperate for a picture)

Anna and her cute jammies

Austin got "Despicable Me" in his stocking

Carson got a play parking set from Santa. Boy was he excited!

Austin got Kinex from Santa. Just what he asked for.

Carson was so stoked to get a "big" Lightning McQueen, a remote control car

Playing w/ their toys

A few of the girls

Grandpa and Brett

C & T relaxing

The princesses

Most of the cousins

Trey and Austin

Eric and I