A quiet Christmas

This year all of our relatives that live in our same town were getting out of dodge except for Jesse's brother Sam and so it was our first Christmas with it just being us. I was pictureing myself just hangin out with the fam, making some goodies to have stocked on the table for us to graze on and just have a nice family centered Christmas. Well, the Sunday before Christmas I woke up from a 3 hour nap with a horrible sore throat that wasn't going anywhere no matter how much apple cider vinigar or collidial silver I drank. Tuesday Jesse had to work and couldn't reschedule patients and so I was stuck at home with the kids feeling like death's door was knockin. All morning I tried to lie down with Bella, but she just wanted to be held while she jumped in my arms. Meanwhile the kids were done watching TV, it was way too windy and cold to go outside and from the way they were treating each other I could tell they were hungry for lunch. I could barely stand up straight because I was freezing from the fever. I still had some Christmas gifts to deliver and so I thought, "how hard can it be to drive while your sick?" It was way hard! I fought to keep my eyes open the whole time and my throat was just raw. Luckily I had started taking antibiotics that morning and by the night I was seeing an improvement. By the time Christmas came I was able to get dinner made and get myself dressed and presentable and not the monster mom I was becoming! The whole time I was sick I kept thinking how much I wished that I had a family member near to ask for help from. I'll never take my in-laws for granted again!

Christmas Eve traditional PJ's For dinner we had Ham, corn pudding casserole, deviled eggs (which I taught Sam how to make and he put his own spin on them; they were very good) and salad. Not your everyday traditional dinner, but it was great. All in all we had a good Christmas that I think the kids will keep in their minds as a great one to remember. Even though they already had some cheap little star wars light savors we got them the "spring" loaded ones and bought an extra one for Jesse so that they could "train" together. They spend a good amount of time Christmas afternoon fighting on the trampoline. It's so funny to watch because Cameron is just ruthless with Jesse. I think he believes that Jesse is just unbreakable or something. They have a pretty good time pretending to be Jedi's.
Helping momma fold clothes!

My dad playing Bryce's new guitar. Of course next to him, the never ending laundry that I still haven't caught up on.