Christmas Concert

Last night we went out with a group of our friends. We went to Tepanyaki for dinner and then to see the group "Voice Male" perform. We had such a great time. We have never eaten at Tepanyaki before. It was good and very entertaining. The concert was awesome! The group was very entertaining and made us all laugh. The music was great and put us all in the Christmas spirit. I'm glad that we have such a great group of friends to hang out with!

Christmas Club Night

Last night I went out with my friends who I get together with once a month. We call it "Club". It use to be called Rook club because we would get together and eat dinner and play Rook. Somehow we stopped playing Rook so it is now just called Club. We usually take turns hosting and make dinner in our home. For December we go out to a nice restaurant and then go Christmas shopping. Last night we went to Ruby River. It was yummy!

Here we are in the car on the way to Target. Don't worry, we were stopped when we took the picture. We had so much fun and laughed all night long! Mostly at the expense of Michelle. Sorry Michelle! You know we love you! We went to Target, ToysRUs and Kohls. It is so much fun to go shopping with a bunch of crazy ladies. We have a great time together!

I really look forward to going out with "Club" ladies each month. Sometimes we don't talk between the months that we see each other at club but it doesn't matter. We just pick up where we left off the month before. We have so much fun together and I am glad to call them my friends!

Kyson's Birthday

Kyson is now 6 years old. For weeks before his birthday he was very excited. He looked at the calendar every day and told me how many days until his birthday. We let him open his presents right after he got home from school and then we went to Burger King for dinner and came home and had cake and ice cream. He said he wants to have a party with his best friends who are Jared, Kamryn and Taeya (all cousins) so we are going to go to Jump and Bounce when Katie's stent is removed.

Kyson is a great kid! He is doing very well in school. He has really changed this year and has come out of his shell. His best friend is really his brother Jake. They do everything together and never ever fight. Kyson watches out for Jake. He is always reminding him what he needs to do, especially in the morning when he's getting ready for school. Kyson is almost always the first one ready in the morning. He is very good about knowing what needs to be done and doing all of it without being asked.

Kyson is a pretty happy kid who observes everything. I will frequently notice him just watching whatever is going on in our house. He has a great smile and a cute little giggle. He's my little buddy and I will miss him when he goes to 1st grade and is gone all day. Happy Birthday Kyson. We love you!

Two Years Old

Katie turned two on Friday! I can't believe how fast she is growing up! We have really enjoyed her sweet spirit in our home. She is at such a cute stage of life. She talks like crazy and is very expressive when she talks. I wish I could video tape her every day so I could catch those expressions on tape. Unfortunately, every time I try to tape her she just smiles and says "Cheese!"

She still loves babies. She can't get enough of them! Anytime we go somewhere and we see a baby, she says "I want to hold him!" She almost always has one of her baby dolls in her arms. It is so cute to watch her talk to them. When we left the hospital, we told her to say goodbye to the babies she was playing with. As she set them down, she hugged them, patted them on the back and said "It's Ok". The nurses got a real kick out of that.

Katie always loves to go places. I can't ever leave the house without her saying "Katie coming". She refers to herself in 3rd person all the time and she knows how to get what she wants. If she wants something, like gum, she will tilt her head and smile as she says "Katie wants just one gum, please, please....pretty please". Who can resist that?

We are so thankful that she is recovering from her surgery and that the doctors were able to fix her. She got an infection after her surgery and has to be on an antibiotic and she REALLY doesn't like it. Every time I try to give her the medicine, she covers her mouth and tries to run away. The other day I told her it was time to give her the medicine and she started crying and said "I'm sick of it!" I was laughing too hard to be able to give her the medicine. We celebrated her birthday at McDonalds because she said she wanted to eat chicken and fries and go down slide. She is very good at playing by herself. She will sit and play with toys for a long time. I love to listen to her being the mommy to whatever she is playing with. Sometimes I just watch her and think how lucky we are to have her. We all love her so much!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Today I was able to go into Kyson's Kindergarten class to help with their Thanksgiving Feast. Each child is suppose to bring in a finger food like pretzels, marshmellows, cookies, olives, popcorn etc... to share with their friends and then they all eat together while listening to music. They all had a great time and it was so fun to watch Kyson with his friends. I love Kindergarteners! They are so sweet and everything is so fun to them! One of the little kids said "This is the best Thanksgiving dinner I have ever had!"

Football in the snow

We were all so excited for the first real snowstorm of the season. We sat around and watched it snow and listened to Christmas music.

Then Jadon and Jaxon decided to take Jenny outside and play football. They had such a great time. They came in once their gloves were all wet, got new gloves, then went back outside.

They stayed outside for quite a long time. When they came in, they had red cheeks, wet hair and clothes and big grins on their faces. It's so much fun for me to watch my kids have fun together!

Katie's home!!!

This is Katie after we first checked in to the hospital and got her hospital jammies on. She was so excited because she was being allowed to have her binky. At home, she only has it to sleep. She was very pleasant and calm all morning as we waited to go into surgery. We gave her a drug called versaid, which makes her very out of it but not asleep, right before they took her off to surgery so that she wouldn't freak out as they took her away from us. she was in surgery for 4.5 hours. It actually went by pretty fast. There were a lot of people in the waiting room that were very interesting.

Here is her incision. The little tube coming out of it is called a stent and is too drain urine out of her body. It will be left in for two weeks.

This was taken when I was allowed to be with her in recovery. It was so good to see her and be able to kiss her sweet face!

It took her a while to wake up and when she did, she wasn't very happy. She cried about everything. When her binky dropped on the floor, she cried like someone died. Tears streaming down her face and loud sobs. She had a horrible night! She cried a lot and would only sleep if I was holding her. So, I sat in a rocking chair and held her most of the night. In the morning, they switched her from morphine to lortab and she did much better. She slept for 3 hours.

When she woke up, she got out of her bed and was walking around. She was talking and playing. It was great! She wanted some chicken and fries so we got that for her and took her for a ride to the cafeteria so we could eat lunch together.

She was thrilled when we took her to the playroom! She immediately found the babies and started playing with them. She had a great time. Since she kept her lunch down and was up and playing, they decided she could go home. We were really surprised that she only had to stay in the hospital for one night!

When we got home, she saw some salad in the fridge and she wanted it. She was shoveling it into her mouth as fast as she could. She showed it to grandma and said "Look at this salad Grandma, it's cute!" Everyone laughed and we were all happy to have our cute little Katie home!