Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone!! We had a great Christmas, we were so blessed by so many people this year! I can only hope that someday we can repay all the kindness that we were shown!

We started out Christmas eve with a big family dinner and then we had all the kids (big and little) act out the nativity story! It was such a cute idea and we had lots of fun (except for Sydney who has been very sick for the past week!)

Eden(the angel) Grandpa(a sheep) and Kimball(a Shepherd)

Here is one of the cutest pictures of my Dad I have ever seen! My dad was a sheep from the nativity story! My sister LeAnn's little boys, were the shepherds. Tolman and Kimball would guide my dad around and jump on his back, it was adorable!

Sydney hated being an angel!

This picture pretty much sums up how Sydney felt all of Christmas Eve, and Christmas day!! She has a rotten cold, ear infections, a yeast infection and diarrhea from her antibiotics. She was feeling pretty darn sick and tired and was letting all of us know it! I have been awake with her for at least four to five hours every night sense Saturday and last night was no exception. Sydney woke up at around midnight, and fussed and cried for the rest of the night. Her poor little bottom was so sore, raw and red, and it made sleeping pretty much impossible for her. All her crying woke up my sister so we decided to wake up the rest of the family and open presents at about 4 a.m.! It has been a tradition for many years now to wake up really early on Christmas morning to see what Santa brought, this morning was no different!

Sydney pretty much didn't want anything to do with most of her presents, she just felt to darn sick to take in any of the magic of Christmas morning. She mostly sat around with no diaper on because it was hurting her so much, eating candy from her stocking. Seth and I would open her presents and show them to her, but most of the time she just sat and fussed and cried! She did really love this art kit that my Mom bought for her, she would open it up take things out, tell me the colors and then put them all back in again!

A rare smile from my tired little girl! Please ignore the dark circles under my eyes. Having no sleep this week has effected the mommy too!

Sydney was super spoiled this Christmas, she got a baby doll that cries, and a rocking dog, movies, toys, clothes, and new coat and candy! Even though she felt so very rotten all morning, after she got a few hours sleep she felt good enough to play with some of her toys! She really liked making her baby doll cry(should I be worried?). It was a wonderful Christmas!

Here she is falling asleep as she sits watching all the present opening.

Finally at around six o'clock this morning, Sydney decided that she would let go and go to sleep on the floor, right in the middle of all the Christmas hubbub. She slept for about 3 and a half hours. I was so exhausted that I curled up on the couch and took a nap too!


So we had our ultrasound on the 23rd and we decided to wait until Christmas to let everyone know what we are having! We are having a.............Boy!

We are both very excited! I am not sure what I am going to do with a little boy, and in fact I am a little bit nervous about it. I know that he will fit in well with our little family and I really can't wait until he gets here and I can snuggle him up on my chest!

Also we got a really good look of his heart and it seems to look very good! My specialist was able to rule out many of the different heart defects so that was a big relief to us!

Anyway I really hope that everyone had the greatest of Christmas's!