We Are Finally Well

It seems like a long time since I last posted. Our whole family was sick for about 2 weeks including myself and it was horrible. Thankfully Seth's mom drove up from Springfield to help out with the girls while we were all sick. I think all the traveling over Thanksgiving just made it worse. For that reason we are staying home for Christmas this year. Our families will probably come visit us so that will be nice.

Emily and Savannah are both getting over their ear infections/colds and I am so glad. Talk about grumpy girls!! They seem to be back to their normal happy selves and have finally started playing with their toys again. When they were sick all they wanted to do was sit in my lap the entire day. Hard to get anything done when you have two babies in your lap.

So, I have been wanting to decorate our house for Christmas, but I'm afraid to put up the big Christmas tree--mainly because I'm afraid the girls will pull it over or chew on a light or ornament. Right now they are in this phase where they think it's funny to do things I tell them not to--especially if it involves putting things in their mouths. They will not mind at all right now. So, I think the big tree is a bad idea. We borrowed a small table top tree from my brother, but it doesn't have lights, so I bought some battery operated small strands of clear lights. Let's just say they are a piece of junk. The first package we opened never would work. The second only works sometimes and the third package of lights worked fine until lunch time today and the lights went out. I guess we'll just have to get the regular plug in lights and barracade the tree so the babies can't play with the light cord. Next year will be more fun I hope. At least the girls will be able to understand not to eat the lights (I hope). I'm hoping to get a good family picture soon to send out with Christmas cards. Seth has a nice camera now so if can get our house cleaned up then maybe we can get a good picture. If not then we may end up going to Portrait Innovations. They take really good pictures.