Hanging Around

Advent

Thanks to one of our friends Kim, I got a great idea for the advent calendar. Instead of filling our advent with junk....we have filled it with fun things for the family to do together each day. The boys really love getting up in the morning and having us read what the days activities hold! Here are some of the pictures from the first days. We didn't take pictures of sodas after school, desert at Chick Fil A but the ones that are really fun, and more than a special treat we try to remember to pull out the photos!

More blog posts to come for the rest of December!




Dec 1 snowflakes for the window


Dec 4 Christmas Tree campout with Christmas stories and cocoa

Tis the Season

We started the Christmas season with a visit with Santa. The boys and I made our Santa letter this morning, and brought it to Santa at Market Street this afternoon! They really enjoyed it and it was very pleasant that this was a year where no one was scared of Santa!

Photo of a photo! :)
Mason was so proud when he finally got up here by himself. BUT I didn't get that pic!
Cute boys, I had to show them their pic for them to finally take a good one!
Giant tree! Ayden says that Santa must of decorated this tree in his sleigh since it was so tall!
My attempt at a close up, Mason bumped into Ayden's nose!
After Santa, Mason was done with those photos!
Kung fu in the walkway!
Oh cute boys!
Santa's letters!

Update in photos, November!

Day of Testing!

Happy three months to our little man! On November 24th Reid finally had his tests to confirm his multicystic displastic kidney. We took off at 6:30am to the med center. My mom joined us- Glenn had a lot of work to finish before Thanksgiving.

Reid was a trooper. He cried when he should- injection of good ole radioactive material, that shows up on the scan of his kidneys, and when he had his catheter for the xrays of his bladder and urinary tract. The catheter seemed to take forever to get into place :( Momma was about to whip out a boob on the table to get him to calm down! He napped during the scan, where they swaddled him and taped him to the table- his kind of nap! He fussed and cried some during the xrays, not quite so comfy and they had to pour water on him to get him to pee! I would cry to I suppose!

We don't have the official results, but all looked good to Dr. Heather. There was only material in one kidney on his scan. Which is a good thing. If we saw life in the bad kidney there would be a possibility of surgery. The Dr that completed the xrays said that he didn't have any reflux! PRAISE. Everyone that knows me knows that I would cringe nightly if I had to give him daily antibiotics, which with a good VCUG(xrays), means that is not something we have to do.

Enjoy....

LOVE- my four letter word for Family!

And I love mine! I miss step several times as a mother, I make mistakes and drill myself for what permanent damage I have done by getting frustrated, angry or impatient. But I love like the best of them. I give them all I have in love. We hug, smile, laugh and most importantly LOVE!

We got some photos done this past weekend, and I am so happy that we have these glimpses of love in our lives each year at every stage!

Enjoy our love.....