Christmas Day!

We had a great Christmas! The kids were so excited! They didn't get up as early as I had thought they would but they were still up pretty early!


Here is what Santa brought Christmas Morning!! He was GOOD this year!




Gotta get a pic by the presents!! You can tell how ansy they were to tear into thier presents!




Here's Avree with her Zebra that Santa brought her!



She LOVED it and didn't want to get off of it!! LOL!!

We played all day LONG!! We did Christmas Lunch with Nana and Papa and Jenn, Corey, Aaron and Hayden! It was a great day. When everyone else left Avree went down for a nap and the rest of us just continued play with all the new toys they got!

Now we are getting ready for the New Year and Kalee's Birthday!!!!!! She will be 7 YEARS old I can't belive it!!!

I hope everyone had a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

Christmas Parties and more....

Wow, this month has been super busy! I've been shopping, doing class parties, girl scouts events and more!!! It's been hectic but fun!! We went to see Santa like we do every year and Gracee would have NOTHING to do with him and would not come anywhere close to him. But we got some good pics of Kalee and Avree and my nephew Hayden with Santa. I don't have any pics on my computer right now...I will post some later though.

We had Gracee's class party on the 17th and she enjoyed Avree and I being there to celebrate Jesus' Birthday Party with her. The day before David and I baked 6 loaves of Pumpkin Bread to give out as part of thier teacher's gifts. They really enjoyed that!!

Kalee's Class Party was on the 19th and I brought cookies and juice for her class. It's nice going to her class because everyone always greets me so politely....but they say "Hi, Kalee's MOM!!!!" LOL!!! I LOVE IT!!!!

Mrs. Claus dropped by to give everyone a candy cane and the kids really enjoyed that...

Last night we took the kids to the Grapevine Vintage Railroad to ride on The North Pole Express. We had a blast. Gracee again wanted nothing to do with Santa when he came on but other than that we had a blast! We sang lots of Christmas Carols and danced and had a really good time! We took lots of pictures!

Here are the girls on the train...

My girls and nephew in front of the train...

My hubby and kids looking out the window, I LOVE this picture!

Our Family on the train!

Starting off....

I am not much of a writer but I decided to give this blog thing a try. We will see how it goes. Let's see what can I write about for today. Today I got up at my usual time to get Kalee up and ready for school. Got her off then next was getting Gracee, Avree, and myself ready. We had a full today. After I dropped the girls off I had to hurry home and get our hermit crabs for Kalee's show and tell day. Then Avree and I ran a few errands and went back to Kalee's school for lunch. The rest of the day was pretty laid back and normal. Other than my hubby coming home from work very sick. Well, I guess that is all for tonight.

We're Going to Georgia

WoooHOOO!!!! We are going to GA in 5 days!!!! I can't wait!! I haven't seen anybody there since we left in 2 years!!! They are all excited to be seeing us too. Kalee remembers a lot about GA and misses everyone there too. She still talks about moving back to GA one day. Maybe one day we will and maybe not. Who knows what God has in store for us. We have some really great friends there. They were "Our Family" since we didn't have any family living there.

David and I went through a lot of trials while living there. Life was hard. But while there we put God back in our realtionship and since then we have grown a lot. I thank God everyday for putting these people in our life to help us get through the most trying times of our marriage. They will forever be family to us. I miss them all so much that is why I am soooooo EXCITED to go back and see them.

I will be sure to take lots of pictures while we are there and post them so everyone can see.

YAY!!! 5 more days!!! WOOO HOOOO!!!!!

Kalee's Surgery and Hospital Stay

For those of you who don't know, Kalee had to have surgery Monday night to have her appendix removed. We stayed in the hospital until Saturday morning. It was quite a week.Wow, this week has been something else! Let me tell you one of the worst things about being a parent is sending your child off to a total stranger to have them be cut open so they could get better. While you know YOU HAVE to do it, it's really hard. She fell asleep while we were waiting on her to be taken in, but before that she wasn't worried about it at all. I was surprised. I told her what was going to happen to prepare her and I told her that she would be asleep while they did it and would not feel a thing. She just said OK and that was it. My mom and I prayed with her before they came to take us down. It was so nerve racking, I just wanted it to be over with so I didn't have to worry anymore. I got to get up on the hospital bed with her to go down to surgery and waited with her. All the nurses were so nice, they came over to talk to her and tell her how pretty she was and stuff like that. She was eating it all up. They kept telling me not to worry, I guess they could see it on my face. But how could I NOT worry?! Anyway, when the time came she was asleep on me and I slipped away, the nurse gave her the sedative and I kissed her on her forehead and told her to please take care of my baby! I didn't want to leave. It was so hard. But I did and I went and met my mom in surgery waiting area and paced the whole hour and 10 minutes! They have a screen in the room and it tells you when the surgery starts and when they are closing her up and then when they are done. I think I checked it every minute. I paced the room the halls I tried to sit and couldn't! Thank GOD Avree stayed asleep because I don't think I would have been able to sit and nurse her. When the band aid appeared on the screen to tell me she was finished I paced the halls waiting for someone to come tell me what was going on. The anesthesiologist (sp?) came out first to give me Kalee's teeth. They were loose and she said they had to be pulled. Kalee was very happy about this. She told me she was fine and the doc would be here soon. SO I waited and paced some more. Finally the doc came out and said that it took a little longer because her appendix was up behind her colon and they had to do some digging and therefore her incision was a little bit longer than normal. But she was OK. So now I wanted to see her, I really didn't care what the doc said as long as it was the fact that she was OK. I got to go back and see her and oh it was so hard seeing her in that bed so pale and so out of it.Trust me there is a big difference in seeing them sleep and seeing them just come out of surgery. She opened her eyes and smiled and then closed them back again. We got her to her room and she slept the rest of the night. I didn't sleep hardly at all. I was so nervous for her. I am getting so emotional just writing about it! The next day she slept most of the day. But that evening she started actually crying and asking me why I would not let her eat. All she wanted to do was eat or drink something and I couldn't let her. I felt like the worst mother on this planet. She cried for about an hour that night about how she was starving. I know she didn't understand but boy was it hard NOT to give her anything. I wanted to cry so bad. I just put my head down and prayed with her for her. All she had to do was pass gas and she could eat. That was all and she couldn't and that made her mad. I seriously thought about lying to the nurses so she could have something to drink but I knew that it would make things worse if I did. Finally the next day she got up said she was hungry went to the bathroom laid in her bed and said mom, I just farted call the nurse! It was so funny and I was so relieved for her. By the time the nurse got in there she had tooted several times. I took her to the playroom and she actually pooped in her pants. She said oops, I am sorry. But at that point she still had no control over her bowels. She did it again several hours later and the doc came in and gave the OK for her to eat!!!! I wished I would have gotten out my camera and taken a picture of her face. She was so happy and that made me so happy!This has been an ordeal I never want to face again.

Smiling

Avree is 8 weeks old! She is getting so big! She started really smiling about a week ago and I just love it! She has even laughed twice. Why do they get big so fast? On Feb. 6, 2007 she will have her 2 month appt. All we are able to do is get a check up. Shots will have to come later because our insurance company screwed up and we have having to pay! Kalee and Gracee love on her all the time. A little too much. But she smiles at them also. Watches them when they are in the room. She loves her big sisters! Ok well gotta go do dinner!!!

Avree is 8 weeks old! She is getting so big! She started really smiling about a week ago and I just love it! She has even laughed twice. Why do they get big so fast? On Feb. 6, 2007 she will have her 2 month appt. All we are able to do is get a check up. Shots will have to come later because our insurance company screwed up and we have having to pay! Kalee and Gracee love on her all the time. A little too much. But she smiles at them also. Watches them when they are in the room. She loves her big sisters! Ok well gotta go do dinner!!!

Update on Us

Avree is now 6 weeks old. We've been having a hard couple of weeks of sickness!! Gracee had pnemonia on Christmas and felt miserable, the a few days later we were at the doctor with Avree. She had RSV!! It was horrible! We did a lot of worrying about both girls, but we are all healthy now! And Kalee never got sick...THANK GOODNESS!!! I was stuck inside though for like 2 weeks!!! Then when I was ready to get out again it iced!!!!! I was NOT happy about that!
Kalee just had her 6th birthday!! I can't believe how time has just flown by! She is such a BIG girl now!! She reads and writes all the time!! She is just so very smart!!! She is a HUGE help with her little sisters and they both just adore her! She is so independent, she likes to make her own food and drinks. Doesn't depend on me like she used to!

Ok gotta go change a diaper!!!