Sick Day

This past weekend Samuel has been sick. He has had a fever and sore throat, coughing. It's similar to the illness that took Raymond and my father out of the game for a few days. He's been missing school and he's still not better. He has been getting better though, so hopefully he can go back to school soon. I'm just hoping no one else gets sick.

Happy New Year

This year Raymond's family decided to have a New Year's Eve party with his parents and sisters who live in Utah. The kids were happy to see their cousins and spend a lot of time with them. We had dinner, played games, and watched the ball drop. Even Janet stayed up until midnight. Then we spent the night at Raymond's parents with everyone else. The next day, we played more games, built a giant 11 ft 2 inch snowman, and saw "Bolt" in the theater. It was a lot of fun!

Merry Christmas

We had a great Christmas this year. All the kids Grandparents were there to share in the fun. Gideon was the only one who didn't want to wake up, but he was fine once he went upstairs and figured out what was going on. Janet was more excited about everyone else's gifts than her own, but that's okay. She liked opening presents for the first ten minutes and then she was bored with it. Ammon liked his Curious George plush and super heroes.
Samuel was the funniest. It started on Christmas Eve when the kids got to open their special star present. It is always pajamas to wear. He ripped his open and then said, "Oh, it's just clothes."
On Christmas morning most of his toys were unwrapped in his Santa pile (Santa doesn't wrap things at our house), so wrapped under the tree was mostly clothes. Everytime he opened a clothes gift he would say, "Not clothes again!" or "There are so many clothes!" He was very disappointed by that, but Santa was good to him and left him lots of great toys.