Another Tag

I have been tagged yet again so here is the 2nd picture in the 3rd folder. This is from the Turkey shoot tournament that Lexi was in last year.

I have been tagged again

Klucky from Horses say Moo has tagged me so here goes. This is the 4th picture in my 4th folder.

This was from Halloween this year.

I now tag Lacey for this.

The 2nd Day After Christmas

So the 2nd day after Christmas brought a trip to the emergency room with a leg broke in 2 places. The day started out great with the kids playing and while I was in the shower, they decided to go outside to play with Tylers new ripstick. Tyler comes running in that my 4th child (Franks best friend) has fallen and is hurt. I through on some clothes and started to go outside when I hear him crying in pain. He was laying in the middle of the street and saying his leg was broken. We got him up and out of the street and carried him into the house. There was a lump on his leg so we put ice on it and then I made the decision to call his mom. She sent his dad to pick him up because he was closer than her and 4 hours later, after a trip to the emergency room, he has a fracture in 2 places in his right leg. I feel so horrible!!! He has a temporary cast on it today and will be seeing the orthopedic to get a permanent cast this week. Luckily it will not require surgery, just a cast for 8 weeks. (not that having a cast for 8 weeks is good but better than the alternative).

We have spoken to him and his parents and he is doing well, just cranky because he cannot go outside and because the boys plans for the weekend got messed up. Crazy boys!!!

Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas at my mom's house. She came in on the Saturday before and we finished our shopping up and then took the kids to her house. Frank and I went out there after I got off work on Christmas Eve.

The kids decorated their new stockings

and then we went to the candlelight service and it started raining while we were in there. I was hoping that it would get cold enough to freeze to have a white Christmas but it didn't happen. After church, the kids opened a present

and we settled down in bed to wait for Santa. The kids got up around 6 and the festivities began. Santa brought Tyler a ripstick, Frank an electric guitar and Lexi got a bunch of games.

We then cleaned up the mess from round 1 and started getting stuff ready for dinner. The rest of the family arrived and we opened more presents.

Tyler, TJ and Frank

Tammy, TT and Lexi

Lexi, Tyler, TJ and Frank

TT and TJ

The crew

The grandmas cooking dinner

after we got everything cleaned up, we came home and got ready to go to work the next day. TT had to fly home on Christmas night but we were glad she was here with us.

Bah Humbug

So with 8 shopping days left, I cannot get into the Christmas spirit. I have not bought 1 gift as of yet. I have my tree up but it has not decorations on it because 15 minutes after we put it up, the cat climbed it so because of my bah humbug spirit, I just left it plain. There are no presents to put under it either. I don't know what to do..... It is not fair to my kids, this is supposed to be a fun time with shaking presents and trying to figure out what is inside the pretty wrapped boxes but I cannot find it in me to even decorate the tree.

My mom is coming in this weekend to take the kids to do their shopping as is her tradition. She started this when Sharkboy was 2 and took him to the dollar store. She has continued this every year since but now they do some at the dollar store and then some at other places too. It is my favorite part of Christmas because there is always a story or good thought of why they get the gifts they do and sometimes you have to really think about them or they are so excited to give it to you, they explain why they chose the trinket that they did. Hopefully having to help them wrap those things will help get my spirit jump started.