New Year's Eve

Happy New Year!!! We have a great neighborhood. We were able to bring in the New Year with them. We had a progressive dinner with lots of good food, fun games, and some great costumes. We had a theme of 60's, 70's or 80's.

Flu - Flu - Flu

Ok - After Candy was sick before Christmas, we had 2 whole wonderful days of thinking she was the only one getting sick. We enjoyed lots to eat on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day but we awoke the next morning to Pizza and Ice Cream sick. We soon heard that Papa was not feeling so great. By the end of the day, we were getting a little worried. Then Milk Dud started being sick. Nana, Doughnut, and I could only wonder if we had made it or if we were next. We spent days cleaning, washing and caring for someone that was sick.





We canceled our family party and were lucky my cousin was able to host everyone else. Pizza was feeling fine and Candy wanted to go so they left for the day of family fun. Doughnut and I were afraid of being carriers or of getting sick while we were there. Nana was the next to go down.





We were able to send everyone home on Sunday thinking, "wow, we made it." Doughnut went to work on Monday, I took the kids to a fun activity in our Moms Club. About 5:00 pm called Doughnut to say we were on our way home and I was not feeling so great only to hear he was already sick and did not know how he would get home. We made it home. Lucky for us have some great neighbors that took our kids for 3 hours while we rested. We then put them to bed and felt good enough the next day to tag team the kids. It was a long day, but thankfully we are over it!!!

HO HO HO

Christmas Day

December 25

These are the stocking I have made for the kids. We have the names going across the front. I just love them and was really glad to get Milk Dud's done before Santa arrived. This is how they looked Christmas morning.

All three kids got what they asked Santa for.

Candy - "boogy board that is straight"

Milk Dud - "squeaky shoes"

Ice Cream - bokugan
Santa was kind and gave them each a few other things. They were excited to both get sleds, stuffed lovie animals, undies, socks, books, and candy.

Uncle Pizza really enjoys when one kid sits on his lap, but today he got all three. I think I will have to remind him of this as he was the next one to get the flu.

Candy and Milk Dud helped Papa peal the potatoes. We had a tasty turkey dinner.

We needed to try the new sleds out so we headed outside after supper!!

We ended the day with a little more snuggle time and a new movie. Milk Dud does not watch t.v. yet but he snuggled in for this picture and then went to bed.

Christmas Eve

December 24th

We spent Christmas Eve enjoying each other and celebrating. We started the day with back bends. Not sure why, but the kids all of a sudden started doing them. Milk Dud tried to copy (that is all he is doing is copy, copy, copy) but could not quite get it.

We then decided to make our lefse. We did not even comb hair before we started. It is a messy process. We all ate as much as we wanted and had plenty left. Papa mixed all the lefse the night before and the guys took turns frying as I was busy rolling.

We then got ready for church with time to spare for a few beautiful pictures. I have been trying to get in a few extra pictures as I am usually behind the camera.

When we arrived at church NO ONE was there. I think the whole family thought I had the wrong time by hours. I had only missed it by 1/2 hour so we had time to take more pictures before people even arrived at church. I think being this early is a first for our family.

I just have to remember this for next year.

We had a wonderful meal back at home. We celebrated with crab legs, meat balls, mashed potatoes, lefse, fruit, and cookies.

We open gifts on Christmas Eve. We all recieved many wonderful gifts and were blessed. We then had everyone get into their Christmas pj's and had one last surprise for our family. We got wii for the family. We have really enjoyed the family evenings playing and taking turns. We played for a few hours and then headed to bed for Santa to come.

Candy and Ice Cream have been planning Christmas Eve since Thanksgiving. They were going to have a sleepover together so they could get up early to check out their stockings. They moved their beds together onto the floor in Ice Cream's room, set up all their favorite things around them, and fell right to sleep. As they fell asleep, I needed to go finish Milk Dud's stocking. I have made us all stockings. Last year he was little and someone gave him a great stocking, so this year I had to get it done. I finished it by 10:00 pm!!!

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Papa's Fish

December 23



Pizza and Papa Popcorn went out fishing on December 23 and Papa caught a huge fish. It was a northern Pike caught on a 4 lb test line. It was 32 inches long and a little over 7 lbs.