Holiday update

Whew! Its been a crazy bit of a month. We all had a wonderful Christmas here, lots of presents, food and family. Although for a couple of days I wasn't sure if we were going to be well enough to host our Christmas Eve celebrations. Abby, Ethan and I all got hit with a very violent form of the GI flu. It all started with Abby then worked its way through the rest of us. Thankfully Owen didn't get it. Gotta love those extra antibodies from nursing :) I seemed to have gotten an extra bit of a problem from that virus because the night that I got so sick I ended up fainting twice. The second time that I fainted I hit the bridge of my nose. The next morning my nose was so swollen it was hard to put my glasses on. I'm still concerned because today marks a week since this all happened and my nose isn't as swollen but its crooked and I still have this weird buzzing in my head. My sister thinks I need to go get X-rayed to see if I broke anything. I'm thinking that she's right. Other than that we've all mended and managed to have an awesome Christmas. Ron truly outdid himself and bought me a pair of 1/2 carat diamond earrings. Totally blew me away and made me feel so special. He said that this was a special Christmas (our tenth being married) and I was worth it. Awww...such a sweetie. Made me feel a bit guilty because I wasn't able to finish my shopping for him due to being sick so I made it up to him when we went boxing day shopping ;)

Hoping to get some pictures put on to the computer this pm so that I can post a few of our celebrations. I didn't take too many because I was too busy enjoying things :)

Cousins...

A week or so ago my cousin came over with her little guy who just happens to be 16 days older than Owen. We just killing ourselves laughing at these two as the struggled to get the same toy. Kinda sucks when you can't crawl yet.

Too funny, Owen pushing Cohen down. Its like he's saying "back off kid these are mine!"

Cohen just decided it was way easier to just lay on top of Owen.

Festival de Noel projects

I said that I'd post them so here they are. I won 3 prizes and had so much fun doing these crafts. I did forget to photograph my advent calendar and my winter mini album...I'll try to remember to do them later. My very favorite project...my Joy wreath. *LOVE* how this turned out. I won 1st with it. My little singing angels all gold and white and while I didn't place with these I loved them too. First place in this category was a cross-stitched santa picture which was gorgeous and probably took forever to do.

My Christmas card which placed 3rd.

And my scrapbook layout which placed 2nd.

Pictures of Abby, Owen and Santa. Could not get Ethan to come with us.

Abby won a first and a fifth place for her projects (scrapbook page and card). She was so excited!

Rhonda's trees that won second place. They were so awesome!

So of the other projects. There were so many great enteries! The judges must have had a hard time picking winners.