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I know, I know, I’m guilty of not updating daily with all our past happenings like I said I would do. It’s so typical of me, huh? I’m only 4 days late, and weekends don’t really counts as days, do they? Without further ado, I’ve posted below about our Christmas and Grandma Indiana’s visit.

This was the first Christmas where both the girls understood the concept of Santa, presents, the tree, lights on people’s houses, etc. It was so fun to watch their excitement and the build-up toward the big day. Of course, we had advent calendars to count down to the 25th. One was specific in counting down from 25 to 1, but Annie couldn’t understand and got very upset stating that “Miss Sarah says it’s December Xth.” How could we argue with that, so we counted up to 25.

On Christmas day both the girls ran in to wake us up. Even though we had told the girls the night before to get us first before peeking in the Christmas room, Annie was already aware of some of the items Santa left for them. Sneaky kid! The girls were thrilled to open presents. However, once Mimi received her new baby she was no longer interested in anything else. We actually had to force her to open presents. The girls seemed to receive everything they ever dreamed of, and Mike and I were happy to see their excitement.

Grandma Indiana arrived on the 21st to spend the week with us. The girls were very excited to see her again, and quickly warmed up to her. Annie immediately talked her ear off and asked a zillion questions. We spent a few days of shopping and just hanging out together. Grandma accompanied us to a Christmas Eve party and got to meet a few of Mike’s endo classmates and their families. On Christmas Day, we had ourselves a feast with a turkey and all the traditional side dishes. It was delicious. That evening we went to the National Cathedral to see/hear an organ performance. The day after Christmas us girls headed over to Montgomery Mall to take advantage of the numerous sales. The girls were pleased to tag along because they each got a princess dress on sale…Snow White and the Little Mermaid. Those dresses have been on their little bodies every single day since. When it was time for Grandma to leave, everyone promised to write lots of letters and call often. Annie declared on the way home from the airport that she was going to write a letter to Grandma everyday. Unfortunately, Annie is much like me and tends to not follow through with suh tasks. We have written once since though. It was so nice to spend Christmas with Grandma this year.

How was your Christmas? I’m sure it’s long from your mind since it was about 2 weeks ago…ha, ha. Head on over to the memories page to see more pictures from the big day under “Xmas 2007“. Enjoy!

November was quite the month for us. The Sunday before Thanksgiving was spent in the hospital due to Annie having an asthma flare-up. A cold/virus caused her to cough so violently that it made her unable to breath. Along with a fever and racing heart-rate, we decided it would be wise to take Annie to the emergency room. The doctor had her do 2 breathing treatments and prescribed some steroids, and by day 2 following the doctor Annie was back to her old self. Of course, Annie’s illness kept her home which made it difficult to get the house ready to host Thanksgiving dinner for 12+ people. All went well though…just a little extra stress added to an already stressful time. Hey, make sure to take a peek at the latest of the girls’ albums–“>November 2007.

As promised, I’m giving daily updates on our past few weeks. Today’s post is about New Year’s Eve which was spent at the Guises’ home. It was fun to get to hang out with friends while the kids ran wild around the house. We had lots o’ meat (courtesy of us) and lip smacking, sugary treats. The Guise, Park, and VanNess families were all in great spirits which made for a rockin’ evening. Of course, we didn’t stay on to ring in the New Year. We got home and the girls were in bed by 11:00 p.m. Mike and I thought we’d be able to stay up for that last hour, but we were defeated by sleep on our comfy couches. We dragged ourselves to bed after waking up around 3:00 a.m. Good times!

Finally, existence around here is moving much slower. I’m actually not loathing my computer anymore. Can you believe those words came out of my mouth? But it was true. I got to a point where I knew that if I had my computer on that I should be working on photo shoot stuff or jewelry orders. So instead of embracing my third child after my last photo shoot on December 22 ( a day after my mom’s arrival) I needed a break all together. Much has happened these past few weeks. Heck, I haven’t even posted about Thanksgiving which was a big event all by itself. This is what I’m going to do for the next few days. I’ll just pick one event at a time and post about it daily until I’ve run out of events. To give you an idea of how many days I’ll be doing this here are some of the things we’ve done recently and for which I have pictures to share: Thanksgiving (already mentioned), Annie’s day at the hospital, shopping with the Cheslers and Parks (I’m only posting about that because the girls looked so adorable that day…ha, ha), a visit to the National Christmas tree, a performance and lights at the Temple, Lucy discovering how much she loves the girls bean bags, Annie’s Christmas program at school, planting Christmas bulbs with Daddy, Christmas Eve dinner with all of Mike’s classmates (hmm…I don’t know if I actually have any pictures from that), Christmas Day, Grandma Indiana’s visit, Annie as a mermaid (not really an big event, but she looked so cute), New Year’s Eve at the Guises’, and New Year’s Day at the Cheslers’. Can you stand the excitement? Trust me, you’re not going to hurt my feelings if you’re not interested in all or any of these happenings. I just want to “document” them here for myself and for any friends/family who are interested.

So where to begin (picture me tapping my finger to my temple while I think). I suppose I’ll go chronologically starting with most recent and moving backward. That brings us to today with the Cheslers. As many of you may have guessed Matt and Trang’s alma mater is USC. Today was the Rose Bowl Game in which USC played. Matt and Trang, in turn, decided to have a thing at their house which included some dang, hot chilli, corn bread muffins, and lots of other goodies. The girls kept busy with some wooden food and stainless steal pots, pans, and utensils that Brady gave to them for Christmas. Thanks so much, Brady, for being a thoughtful little bean! And thanks to the Cheslers for a fun evening. I’m sorry to admit that we didn’t stick around long enough to see who won the Rose Bowl, although USC was ahead by 21 with Illinois at zip.