Friday, December 27, 2013

Christmas Day in the Townhouse

We got to stay at home for Christmas this year! We were sad to miss seeing extended family, but it was also nice to relax. Here are some pics from the month:

Cindy Lou Who for Celebration


Lydia and Donner

Wow! She let him hold her! 
Lyddie and the Grinch

Hermie and Juju. She had to wear shorts under her costumes.
Cindy and the Grinch on their last performance

The show from T.V.'s outside the auditorium
Lyddie Lou Who

Candlelight Service

Looking at lights on Christmas Eve in Prestonwood
Santa Came!

Stockings on Christmas Morning


Before presents

Lion Lydia and Excited Julia

Sisters, Sisters. There were never such devoted sisters.
 I think I'm going to have to go watch "A White Christmas" now.
Our Tree on Christmas morning.

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care.



Stockings!

The Christmas Story

We are so very blessed. We had a great Christmas and it was a pretty great 2013. I hope you had yourselves a Merry little Christmas and a beautiful and wonderful 2014!! God's blessings on you and yours! Sincerely, Amber

Video of Lydia's Solo


Please click here to see the video of Lydia singing the world's sweetest little video.

Saturday, December 7, 2013

In a Nutshell

Oh my! Time has been flying by!

Please excuse me as I do some much need "Back-up Blogging"...

We had a great Fall. (I can't believe I didn't even post any pictures from Halloween.)

Trick-or-Treaters...2 ballerinas and Minnie the Mouse

Crabby Minnie

Jacqueline-o-lantern
We had a lot of fun Trick-or-Treating and reverse-trick-or-treating in our neighborhood. Dave is the one who came up with the idea to carry a bowl of candy a long with us to pass out to people who gave the girls candy. It seemed like a really weird idea to me, but it ended up being really neat. Adults who were passing out the candy to trick-or-treaters seemed very appreciative and the girls enjoyed not only receiving, but giving candy. It was a good lesson, and I think we'll probably do it next year too.
Crying Baby Shot

Looking forward to the Memorial City Mall Lights

New Coats for a Cold Thanksgiving in Bartlesville




We had a great November. We got the girls new coats, traveled to Bartlesville to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday with family, and visited Santa early. Julia began practices for her part in the Christmas Production at church and Julia and Lydia started Daisy Troops. Time has been whizzing by, and I barely know if we are coming or going.

Along with all of the fun we had in November, we also had a really scary thing happen. Saige had her first trip to the E.R. Thankfully I didn't completely break down mentally, but I was on the verge for a minute there. Without drawing out the story for too long, here is what happened:
Saige used to like to climb the ladder on her sister's bunk beds. She did it a ton of times with out falling, but I would usually grab her off the ladder if I saw her climbing her way up. However, I didn't see her climbing the ladder the Friday before Thanksgiving, and neither did anyone else. After we heard the thud and then her cry after falling, I rushed into her sister's room and held her until I felt prepared enough to check her little face for bumps or blood. When I held her up to see her face, her shoulders and neck stiffened, and her eyes rolled back into her head. That's when I became hysterical and started screaming. I handed her to Dave to call 911, and after Dave held her for a second, he let me know that she was awake and breathing fine. In my hysterics, we decided to get everyone into our minivan as quick as possible and get Saige to the E.R. ourselves. The drive there was short, but scary. Saige was very quiet and had a greenish tint in her face. I remember thinking...this is what "green around the gills" looks like. Thankfully, the wonderful staff at Memorial Hermann's E.R. unit got her back to check vitals right away. Once they gave her some tylenol, and got us in a room by ourselves, Saige finally started acting like herself again.-- It was a very sad morning. The poor baby had to get her temperature taken rectally for the first time, and that is never fun! She ended up with no major issues (except for a psycho mom)--just a black eye. Praise the LORD!

This first week of December has been CrAzy! I remember the first year our family moved to Houston. I cried because we had no Christmas party invites. That is not the case this year! We have two this weekend and three next weekend. Julia also had her birthday party today because she had to go and turn 7 last Wednesday!!! I tried to convince her to start getting younger instead of older, but she doesn't listen to me all the time.
Julia was lucky enough to get to celebrate her birthday at this ice skating rink. She had a blast. It was way too packed full of people, and the staff was way to un-friendly for me, but like I said, she had a blast. Saige wasn't exactly enjoying herself during the party either. She was only interested in running off and not being confined to a seat to watch her sisters skate around a rink with a ton of other people. Dave helped the big girls skate, and I think he had a good time doing that. Lydia got bored of skating really quick, but she enjoyed seeing friends. That's about the only thing I liked about the whole thing too. 

Our sweet Lydia has a solo at church tomorrow. I am so very, very proud of her! I plan to take pictures and video her. I also plan to get those posted to my blog!! She is going to do so well! I can't wait to share that with you all. I look forward to posting more regularly again. 

Well, this is us in a nutshell! Thanks for reading. Blessings to you all! Love, Amber.