December Happenings

This was not the best month, for me anyway. December 1st I woke up and felt so awful. I had the worst headache, was completely exhausted and felt so sick to my stomach. The flu!! I was the only one in the family to NOT get the flu shot and knew this had to be my punishment. I honestly did not know how I was going to be able to take care of the boys. Troy was suppose to be out in the missile field and I knew my mom wasn't close enough to come bail be out. We must have had snow that day or something because at 10:30 Troy walked in the door and said their job had been canceled. Thank goodness!! My prince charming had come to save the day. Needless to say, all I did was rest.

A few days later our ward had a playgroup set up to decorate gingerbread houses. I still didn't feel the greatest but knew the boys would love it and I kind of felt I owed it to them. Sebastien LOVED all the bowls of candy to choose from and Manti wasn't disappointed either, he got to sample all the candy Sebastien chose when I wasn't looking. It was a great way to break up the sick days.


These are a few pictures I got of Sebastien's creation. He loved showing it off to daddy so I know it would be happy to show it off to you. We never finished eating it but the pieces we did get to enjoy were sure yummy!

The next weekend, the base had a tree lighting ceremony with an appearance from Santa so we planned on going to that. Still feeling a little crummy I followed through with my promise to the boys and took them even though Troy was working. We got to sing Christmas songs, watch all the lights get turned on and see Santa! Santa came riding in on a firetruck which was an added bonus. He even walked right by us and the boys went wild!

Here is Santa after he got off the firetruck and said hello to most of the kids.

This was the best picture we could get of Santa's fancy ride. Good thing there was a reflection so you can see it better.

With it being December, we ran into Santa all over. We saw him at the commissary, the mall, the tree lighting (above) and at a party we went to. The boys did great with Santa every time they saw him. I was very impressed and of course had to get pictures EVERY time. As you can imagine, we got a few pictures of the boys and Santa this year.

This is the boys with Santa at the mall. It was cold and snowy that day so they are wearing their snow pants. They loved the reindeer hats Santa gave them even though Manti's didn't stay together long enough to get off Santa's lap.

Here is Manti with Santa at a Christmas party we went to. It was so cool because Santa even brought all the little kids presents. Manti got a cool puzzle that he loves and almost has it all figured out now.

Here is Sebastien with Santa. I think I took the picture as Santa was putting Sebastien down but at least we got one. Sebastien was very excited about his present. He couldn't wait to open it so when the time finally came, he was even more excited to see it was a Lightning McQueen car! Yay, great job Santa!

This is Santa at the commissary. They had this cool chair set up for him made out of cases of soda. Isn't it cool! I think Santa even gave the boys a bag of treats too which made the shopping trip even better for them.

This is just a close up shot of the boys and Santa. I wish Sebastien wouldn't have put his hands in his mouth right when the flash went off.

Another fun thing we did this month was we drove down to Loveland, CO to meet Jeff, Jessica and the kids for lunch. The boys are always extremely excited when I tell them we are going to see their cousins. The boys watched a movie while I drove (of course, Troy was working that Saturday). It is very nice to have a dvd player in the car, it makes road trips so much more enjoyable. :) We ended up eating at Red Robin which the boys love because of the balloons and tv's in the floor. They have some benches right outside the restaurant and I got a couple pictures of the boys. Sebastien was too anxious to go inside and kept playing by the door. I told him over and over to move because people won't see him. He eventually learned his lesson and not in a good way. As he was standing right by the door a guy came out of the restaurant in a hurry and just plowed right over Sebastien. He felt so bad but at the same time it was the only way Sebastien would figure out that what I was telling him was true and I wasn't just being a nagging mom. He ended up with a couple of scrapes, bruises and a little blood. As soon as he saw his cousins he started to forget about his battle wounds. Maybe next time he will listen!
I thought I had taken pictures of both boys but I guess not. Here is Manti sitting on the bench waiting to eat! He doesn't look too happy but I promise he was.

We thought about sending the boys of to Ganma and Ganpa for Christmas but the box we had was just a tad bit small. The boys had fun playing in it anyway. Then again, what two year old and 17th month old wouldn't like that??

We could not get them both to look at the same time! Still cute boys and you can tell they enjoyed this. It was actually quite the fight to get them out of the box and clean up. No surprise there, right?

We have a lot to post about Christmas so look for a post all about that to come later. We hope your December was full of fun like ours!