Christmas

We had our Christmas early this year - Dec 22nd was our Christmas Eve and Dec 23rd was our Christmas Day. Jared worked evening shift on the 24th and I worked 24hrs on the 25th. But Santa Claus is a very nice guy and he agreed to come early to our house. The 22nd we actually went with all the cousins to sing at two nursing homes. The kids did a great job - I was very proud of them. The second place we did especially well and then the kids all shook the residents hands afterwards and wished them a merry christmas. Then we went to Andrea's church and had a big cousin party with games, crafts adn pizza. ALso lots of fun. Then we went to Costco and bought crab legs. Then we went home and ate crab legs - YUMMY!!!!!! We had nice evening - we ate our yummy dinner with chocolate sauce bananas, fresh pineapple and all the yummy stuff. Then we read/acted out the nativity and sang some songs. Christmas morning - the 23rd- we got up around 6:30 and opened presents. DId I mention Jared's mom was here? That was really nice. Everyone was so excited and happy and then we just relaxed adn played together alll day - no interruptions. Sigh. I love Christmas.

The real Christmas Eve we went to my mom's house and ate the traditional hoagie dinners and played with cousins. Lots of fun.

Can I just say that Saturday was horrible?? First of all everyone decided to have a baby Christmas night so I only got about three hours of sleep (two c-sections in the middle of the night) and Jared said that he only got about three hours too because Kiersten woke up about 2 am and started throwing up and threw up every hour after that. When I got home at 7 am Lynnaea and Anders were feeling sick too - so I laid on the living room floor sleeping until one of them (they were all laying on the couches) said they were going to throw up and then I jumped up and held the bucket and then washed their faces and dumped and washed the bucket and then passed out on the floor till the next one started throwing up. It was great fun. By midmorning they were doing better and they slept on the couch while Danica, Myles and I cleaned the whole house and I did all the laundry. My stomach was feeling queasy but I never threw up luckily. But then we had to go clean the church because no one signed up this week - and since that is my husbands new calling when went and cleaned the entire church. I have a blister from vacuuming. The kids were a great help though - I wouldn't have finished without them. Then SUnday's are just crazy now I had ward council in the am but I only let the kids go to Sacrament meeting - I figured they couldn't breathe on to many people in Sacrament meeting. So, anyway that was my great weekend. I hope you all had a better one!!