What a crazy couple of weeks it has been. Between family visits, Thanksgiving, and birthdays I haven't had a minute to blog anything. So, here we go playing catch up.
Christians brother and his family came down from Washington to visit for a week. This meant a lot of fun family get togethers. Their first night here (Saturday) we celebrated Zacharys and Aunt Shannons birthdays, and decorated gingerbread houses. On Sunday we went to my familys to celebrate my dads and Zacharys birthday. Zach had a great time smearing himself with chocolate cake. Then we had a day off before it was back to the Terry family house for our first Thanksgiving dinner. The kids made turkey headbands and then promptly destroyed them with playing so hard. After dinner Grandma gave all the kids their first Christmas present, matching jammies! The next day we Zach got to have a birthday party at school! We took in a pull-string pinata filled with sensory toys and a balloon for each kid. The teachers let the kids spray everyone and everything with silly string and they all had a lot of fun! On Thanksgiving we went back to my families for a big dinner. The kids all had fun playing games and just hanging out with each other. It was nice to have an earlier dinner though so we weren't so stuffed at bed time. Friday we spent the day putting up the tree and hanging our outside Christmas lights. On Saturday we headed back to Terrys for the gangs last night in town. Earlier in the day I had fallen down the stairs and hurt my leg so I got to be there on crutches. Neil and Annie went to go see Body Worlds and since all the kids wanted to keep playing we took them back to Kangaroo Zoo. We hadn't been there for more than 10 minutes when poor Shannon fell off one of the boucers and dislocated (and fractured as we later found out) her shoulder. I hobbled around watching the kids while everyone else helped Shannon to the car so they could take her to the ER. We ended up staying for awhile and then piled back in the cars to head back to the house for dinner and to wait for everyone else to come home.
Finally everything has settled down a bit though with all the Christmas parties coming up, I don't think it will be long before everything gets crazy again! Just a note, my leg is still sore but I have been off the crutches for a couple of days and I am doing good! Hope everyone else had a great holiday!
3 comments:
What a great idea with the sensory toys in the pinata! AWESOME! And as for the cake...he looks like he REALLY enjoyed it!
Man Melody- you and I sure made the crazy pair eh! We had fun though! Zachary's party looks like it was awesome!
That was sooo fun coming down and seeing everyone and letting the kids play themselves silly. Too bad you and Shannon injured yourselves -- that totally sucks. I love the pics of the kids. I never took any pictures (what was I thinking?!!!) I would love it if you e-mailed me some of those fun pics. By the way, your boys looked sooo cute in their halloween costumes -- Zach makes a cute count dracula.
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