months in review

Work & Play OK! OK! So we've been REALLY bad about keeping up with this lately. I'll try to keep this extremely brief but let you in as much as possible. Not much went on in November. Nola and Chemo went to Utah/California for Thanksgiving; which left us to fend for ourselves over the holiday. We are adults, we managed just fine. In a way it was a blessing that a bunch of family wasn't in town over the holiday. All of us got sick. Cade, Kelson, and I were sick with sinus infections, pink eye, colds, and vomiting. The boys were so congested that everytime they would get mucus drainage they would throw up. Not fun for me. I handled it pretty well the first few days just because I was so congested and couldn't smell anything. Cheeto left to get tissues one afternoon and returned later informing me that the house smelled awful, like vomit and such. I couldn't tell until about 2 days later. It made an interesting 4 days. Cheeto wasn't real entertained. Cade talked me into decorating for Christmas 2 days after Thanksgiving. I felt awful but couldn't tell my 5 year old no. We picked up my recently scratched van up a couple days later. We picked it up at night and didn't notice what an awful drop Crown Paint and Body did. They left the inside looking awful. Also, the only way you could open the front passenger door was from the inside. I was so upset. I use to have a brand new car with a 12" white scratch, now I had a car that looked trashed on the inside, a door that is broken that wasn't broken in the first place and an incomplete paint job. We picked it up Friday night and had to wait until Monday to take it back to the shop. Luckly our prayers were answered, Crown was more than willing to fix their mistakes.
To fill you in on some more recent news. Christmas was good. Of course, we were all spoiled and grateful for everything everyone did for us. Adam and Melissa came in a week early. We had a couple of snow days right after their arrival. It was nice for Cade to not have to school for those days. I think he would have had a really hard time being the only kid that had to leave all day. We went to Tanglewood for FHE one night. I struggled sitting in a car for such a long period of time, but the boys loved it! So that makes it all worth it. Christmas morning was lots of fun. Kelson got mad that Santa ate the cookies he left out for him. That was pretty funny. I was grateful that the boys were so pleased with all of their presents. Santa brought them some battery-operated Polar Express trains. They opened those first, anything after that wasn't too exciting I guess. It was funny because they would open a couple of presents

Llano Update (Cheeto's Brood)

Arellano Update

Christensen Update