Happy Holidays!

Tis the Season! The girls were so excited to find these in one of our Christmas tubs!

It feels good to be writing tonight! It has been way too long. Life has been CrAzY these past few weeks! As most of you know, Maddie girl had her tonsils out the Tuesday of Thanksgiving week. She was a trooper throughout the entire process but really had a hard time eating - she ended up losing close to 7 pounds in less then a week. Scary for Dave and I because she was so GRUMPY, short tempered and so not herself. We are happy to report that she is back in full swing and is making up for her lack of eating. We can't keep enough food in front of her right now! Needless to say, we had a very quiet Thanksgiving this year. We enjoyed an early Thanksgiving dinner with Roger and Lynette and the rest of the gang but stayed in Olympia for Thanksgiving Day. I did my annual Black Friday shopping. This year I added Toys R Us at 1 am....I don't think I'll be doing that again anytime soon! When I arrived, I had to stand outside for over an hour because they were busy arresting two adults who were fighting over a free zoom zoom pet. Need I say more? We spent the rest of our weekend taking down fall decorations and putting up Christmas ones. Both the girls had fun decorating their own rooms and they are waiting anxiously to go get our Christmas tree tomorrow. They are excited because they get to have their own trees this year in their bedrooms. I have never seen their rooms look so clean :) Other then that, we have honestly been at our house tending to Maddie. We are counting down the days until Christmas break!

This is where Maddie spent the majority of her time after her surgery.

The house during decorating...AHHH!

Both the kids had Dave hang this garland around their closets as well as some kind of decoration- so proud!

Maddie decided to get out of bed to hang her window clings!