It's finally Christmas!

(December 2017) 

The countdown to Christmas was so fun and we were more than ready for the jolly ol elf to come.

We got our matching pajamas, read our books,  and watched a quick nativity movie....

Then it was off to bed. 

Andie fell asleep before making it to her room and Miles said

"take a picture of us sleeping."

Little cuties!

Christmas morning was filled with all sorts of smiles.

We went through our stockings...

and tried out everything Santa brought.

We got to open presents...

...try on presents...

...hug when receiving a great present...

(great story....we had a mouse in our garage recently so we put out two traps and whoa we caught TWO mice. Uh oh do we have a problem? Miles thought Romney needed a new mouse trap for Christmas. I wasn't going to deny that idea. So we went to the store where Miles looked at 2500 different types of traps and asked about each one and chose the perfect trap for his dad! It is by far the funniest gift ever but the sweetest. We haven't had to bust out the new trap yet. But should the occasion arise again, Romney will be ready with a perfect trap)

... AND we needed to break in some presents...

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...Andie loved wearing her new sweater with the dangling tags and all...

She opened the last present under the tree

and it was her own tea set...

and she LOVED it!!!

It was a great morning with happy children.

And that is what we do it all for.

My parents had to leave after we opened presents.

They really are great grandparents. 

They are supportive and came all this way for a short weekend.

We love you guys. 

And appreciate all you do for us.

And we'll just pretend Andie is really sad about them leaving too and not leaving my arms.

Merry Merry Christmas!


Six weeks post op:

`he can lay flat!!!!
` he slept in our bed!!!!
`he is out and about
`he is wrestling the kids like he used to
`he is staying up late visiting again
`he mowed the lawn

2 more weeks til a full recovery.