It's The Holiday Season

The holidays are in full swing and we will be busy as ever...enjoying family and fun!!

Thanksgiving was a fun time for all. The Sunday before we celebrated with my family as we always do and it was great food and company. The weather was perfect which allowed the kids to run wild outside and that they did! Thanksgiving Day we traveled to Mt. Pleasant for Todd's family Thanksgiving to enjoy more eating and more good company. the weather was again warm enough for the kids to run wild!! Making a day trip of it really wore the boys out. They were fast asleep for the night at just 5:30 pm when we left there!!

Between all these festivities, Parker had a ear infection and Austin has had bronchitis followed by his first ear infection since getting his tubes. It is not pleasant with all the fluid draining from the ear constantly. I think they are both finally feeling better so hopefully we can stay well till the new year.

The holidays really do bring good cheer! I love the joy and excitement the boys (especially Parker) have about the tree, decorations, lights and festivities. He is finally at an age that it is all making sense. One new tradition we started this year is Elf on a Shelf. We first read the book then the next morning our elf was at our house from the North Pole. Parker didn't understand at first but I think he is finally catching on. He named the elf Trophy and every night Trophy fly's back to the north pole to report to Santa if Parker and Austin have been good or bad every night until Christmas Eve when he stays at the north pole and Santa makes his rounds.

We have already paid a visit to Santa so that Parker could tell him what he wanted for Christmas. He wants a trampoline!! He was so excited to see him that he was hunting him down and pushing people out of the way to get to him. Austin on the other hand was very hesitant and started screaming as soon as I put him in Santa's lap.