Christmas 2013

Ok, so I was looking through my blog the other night and realized that blogging for me is very important. I was grateful that I had written the posts that I had because without it I wouldn't have remembered all those little details I had wrote about. When I see my kids do something new or a cute thing they might say or do I always think to myself " I never want to forget that" ,but unless I write it down I end up forgetting ..:( Once again I am recommitting myself to blogging this year...:) I must start out posting my Christmas pic's even thought I'm like 5 months behind. Better late then never I sometimes say..:) This past Christmas was a bit of a disappointment. I really hate saying that because its my absolute favorite holiday. My procrastination really made things harder on myself this past year. I wanted to wait to buy the kids big gifts until a couple weeks before Christmas for two reasons..1. The size of the boxes. 2. They were the most expensive. I failed to take into account that they were this years hottest toys. Brad is very good at hunting things down so, I figured he could take on the task of finding these gifts. He of course was right on it and found everything within a couple of days..:) This year being that it was our first year in Utah we decided to do something different. I had always wanted to see the Christmas lights at Temple Square so, we decided that would be a good Christmas Eve activity to put us in the Christmas spirit. We had Ann and Bruce over for Christmas Eve sandwiches and finger food then headed out to see the lights. All the lights in Temple Square is like a Christmasholics dream. The lights were everywhere....I mean everywhere...millions of little lights twinkling, it was awesome! After we returned home it was time to put out the cookies and get the kids into bed. Luckily I didn't procrastinate all the wrapping so we were able to go to bed shortly after the kids. Needless to say the next morning the kids were so excited to run through the paper wall to see what Santa had left them. The kids were acting a little more tired than normal and Abby was looking like she didn't feel very good. That's when Christmas started going downhill.....the puking started....it started hitting everyone one by one. I of course never seem to get as sick as everyone else which left me to care for everyone while feeling sick myself. This lasted for a week and it was completely awful. I was so over Christmas at this point that two days after Christmas all my stuff was taken down and I didn't want to see another Christmas particle until the following year. I felt so frustrated and defeated until Parker and Abby said, " Mom, I know we were all sick ,but that was the best Christmas". I was pretty surprised considering I could have chalked that one up as one of the worst to date. I sat there and thought maybe I need to look at it through my kids eyes and when I did it really did turn out to be a good Christmas. It wasn't perfect ,but to my kids it was and that's all that mattered...:)