Gingerbread Houses and Texas

Well it is definately that time of the year and I have done 4 gingerbread houses this year. Olivia would be proud. I even invented a mission of Santa Barbra this year!!! Wow what a project. In between all of this we are also heading out to Texas to spend Christmas with Matt's family and stop by and see my little sis in New Mexico. So of course all things must happen at once...Van needs repairs, work parties, (which I will be done after Thursday Yipee!!) Couldn't afford to work ha ha!!! That is California for ya! Cub Scouts, YW, running here and running there. Helping the kids get things ready for presents...and the list goes on. But I wouldn't trade it for the world. I love Christmas, and love the the music. Can't wait to get our new Christmas book too. Any suggestions?? Well I am of to finish icing the missiona and get to BED!!

Getting ready for Christmas and 101 Post!

I can't believe how fast the end of the year is coming up!! We had an awesome Thanksgiving this year. We have been celebrating for 3 days straight!!! Invited the Perkins family over and we did't finish dinner, so we invited them over the next night and still didn't finish, and so we invited them over, and finally ate the pies!!! So I think we did good. We wanted the Schelers to come over too, but they were in Sanger. The kids really missed having them over.

My parents and Carrie went to New Mexico, to visit my other sister in her new home and met her boyfriend and family for Thanksgiving. They got back tonight about 11:30. Sounded like they had a really good time. Mom got to pick up a lot of stuff for her class about Native Americans.

Well I am getting the gingerbread dough ready for the houses, it should be pretty cool and I will definately post pics as I am working on them. In the class that I am working in we are also doing the Polar Express, so I am working on the class room board for that. It looks really cool in my mind. But I think the mission style gingerbread house will look really neat too.

I am off to bed and can't wait to start packing for Texas!!! whoa whooooo!!!

Seeing New Moon

Yeah!!! It was soo good. Matt and I went and he actually enjoyed it! Loved it and can't wait till the next movie!! Thanks sweetie for the night out!

Life starting to smooth out a little

Well things are definitely starting to smooth out. We had a great Halloween. Erin, was nurse, Erik was a box of popcorn, Mike was Optimus Prime, and Danny was Bumblebee. We went to the school carnival, which was really good. Erin was two cakes at the cakewalk and the boys won lots of candy. On Wednesday the church put on a trunk or treat, which had an awesome turn out. Love those, where the kids can have lots of activities, and get candy all at once. What more can you ask for? Well Matt will be taking off to Houston for a few days and he gets to go see his family out in Texas, yeah soooooo jealous!! Can't WAIT for Christmas!!

Erin Home and Much Better~

We are so glad to have our little Erin back. She got her port taken out on Monday and has progressively gotten soooo much better since then. She will be returning back to school on Monday, and we are going to have to figure out how to catch her up through 6 weeks of school that she has missed. Yikes that is so much!

Erik also had his post op on Thursday down in UCLA and his eye surgery was a great success the doctor said. He now has a 4% difference between the two eyes which has been a night a day difference for him. He did have some adjustments that felt wierd trying, but after a couple of days it felt natural. Now he does have issues still when he is tired but it isn't as bad as it was. So everything is going better. YEAH!!

Erin back in the Hospital

Well poor little Erin is back in the hospital. She got an infection from her appendectomy that she had on the 17th. So now she shares the date of her cousins appendectomy to years ago. She was admitted yesterday and the doctor wants to make sure he gets all of the gunk out! So keep her in your prayers. Thanks.

Danny Lost his first tooth

As of Monday, September 7th, Danny is toofless on the bottom left. He was soooo excited after he realized that he actually lost it and it was ok that it happened. Now you might wonder why it took so long to get excited about it...well of course there is a story. How could it not be an event and part of our lives!!???!!!

We had some of our friends kids over for the night for labor day weekend, and my parents came over for breakfast (family tradition). Breakfast was pancakes, eggs, and linguesa (Portuguese sausage). Well we were done eating and went out front to enjoy the day and Matt and I were talking to my parents and the kids were playing around the inside of the house and out back. All of the sudden the little girl staying with us, who is Danny's age, comes out screaming, "Danny's bleeding!" Now as most of you who know us we don't over react to much anymore, if we don't hear blood curdling screams of pain. And plus, our little friend, tends to panic when she sees blood. So we calming ask her is Danny hurt, and she said, "Yes, he is bleeding from his mouth, he bit a pancake and is bleeding." I am thinking he must have fallen, while eating a pancake and busted his lip or bit his lip while eating it. So we go inside to check it out and Danny meets us at the front door with some blood on his lip and in his mouth. Matt bends down and starts checking things out and asking Danny what happened. Danny says pretty much the same thing as our guest and Matt looks at me and says his gums are bleeding around his tooth. He has knocked most of the tooth out by the root.

So with this discovery we go into the room to check out THIS pancake. Well nothing seems to be overly hard, and there is nothing hard in. So I take Danny into the bathroom to clean up his mouth and assess the actual damage and what can we do. Well as I am rinsing I notice something and call Matt into the bathroom with Danny and me. I said I don't think we can save the tooth, it is broken at the root, but I don't think he broke it, because behind it is a NEW TOOTH!! It was loose and the pancake dislodged it from the other baby teeth supporting it. So we pulled it out the rest of the way, and Danny went from a panic giggle to pure joy of realizing the Tooth Fairy was coming!

Now Mike who is older and has not lost a tooth becomes quite upset and jealous about Danny loosing a tooth before him. So we had to do a lot of consoling and telling him he will loose his soon enough and checking EVERY single one of his teeth to see if he had any loose teeth. Also for my nieces and nephews who know I seek out loose teeth to pull, will know how much of a shock this story is that Danny literally lost his tooth eating a pancake! Well that was our fun event for Labor Day weekend! Hope you had a good laugh, we sure did!