The big day!!!!

Let me just tell you how the morning began....we told the girls not to come out of there room until we came and got them, so around 7:00 we heard them yelling for us, so we went down there and Jaiden was in tears...(she isn't going to be happy with me for writing this) She had an accident in her bed:( she was so excited and she knew she wasn't suppossed to come out, we felt so bad!!!! Then Marlie started to cry and said her tummy hurt, James ran and got a bowl and well....she threw up:( What a way to start Christmas morning!!! We think its her nerves, because last year she did the exact same thing!!! After about 15 minutes she was Marlie again and things were good!!! Ellie was so cute, she opened her stocking and found a candy cane and didn't care about anything else, James kept trying to take it so she would open some presents and she got so upset, so we let her eat it!!! Once she figured out there were toys for her in the presents she went to town opening everyone's presents!!! It was a wonderful day even with all of the snow!!!!

Sweet baby Gage slept through his first christmas:)

Christmas Eve!!!

We had our traditional opening of one present and course it was PJ's!!! They were all so excited, it took an hour to calm them down to get them ready for bed!!!! But yes they all fell asleep:)

Gage played the part of baby Jesus and couldn't have done any better, He fell asleep in Jaiden's arms the minute I put him there!! The only problem was Jaiden's little arms got so tired while Grandpa read from the Bible that by the end of it he was laying on the floor!!!

We started the night off with the meaning of christmas and the kids acted out the nativity scene!!! They all played there part very well!!!

SANTA!!!!!!

All the kids got to sit on Santa's lap at James' work party!!! It was so fun to see Ellie, she was so nervous, but she did great! She got right up there and talked to him and was so big!!!! This is Gage's first visit with Santa!!! He didn't really mind, we'll see if its a different situation next year!!

This is Jaiden singing Jingle Bells in front of the whole crowd (about 2 hundered poeple) She did so good!! They asked for a few volunteers to sing when Santa was coming and she raised her hand and got picked!! It was so cute, a very proud mother moment:) She sang all the words and didn't mess up at all!!!!

Elves!!!!!

We went to see the elves at Gardner Village!! It was so fun, but so cold!!!!

Gage is screaming, because he hated wearing a hat, but its so cute (thanks Casey!)

OOPS!!! I forgot to rotate the picture:)

She's done it again......

Of course I am talking about Little Miss Ellie.....Yesterday morning she woke up and decided to make the day crazy for Mom and Dad!!! It started with Marlie bringing us the bottle of children's Motrin and telling us that Ellie got the lid off and was drinking it....It was still pretty full so I new it wasn't to much to worry about, I took it and put it on the dresser in our room and laid back down...it was still early, anyway about 20 minutes later Ellie brought me the bottle again, this time it was empty....Of course we both jumped out of bed hoping that she just dumped it out somewhere and was playing in it!!!! We couldn't find it anywhere so I smelled her mouth and sure enough it smelled like the Motrin! We asked her what she did with it and she didn't really answer, finally after talking to her for a few minutes she told us she drank it:( I called the Dr. in a panic and they sent us to the dreaded ER. What a wonderful time that was...they rushed her right in to a trauma room and you always know something is wrong when there are about 20 people rushing around in the room and hooking her up to monitors and telling me everything will be okay!!!! Needless to say everything turned out okay, They made her drink that Oh so yummy Charcoal, and had her hooked up to an IV for a few hours!!! They watched her for a while and then finally sent us home!!! We had to take her to the Dr today for a follow-up and the Doc said she is just fine!! I have now learned the hard way that a child proof lid doesn't mean anything!!!!