The usual holiday craziness.

Hello friends,Sorry it's taken me so very long to update,but things have been absolutely crazy at our house.I mean they usually are,but this holiday season was worse than usual.It started with my husband having to have yet another surgery on his foot.The same as last year.Which was rather frustrating.It would have been nice if it would have been done right in the first place.Neither of us was too happy he would have to go through the same recovery process all over again.He had it done six days before Thanksgiving.It was supposed to be a two hour surgery that turned into a five hour surgery.He even ended up staying overnight at the hospital.We decided the week before to go ahead and put up our decorations and Christmas lights and while he was still able to help.

 It took me a good three days to decorate,but it was done.Then we went to the hospital and he had the surgery done.Like I said it took much longer than was anticipated

 Then it was home to prep for Thanksgiving.It was very mellow this year with all that was going on with his foot.I hardly even took any pictures.

                                   Daniel prepping the turkey.

 We had the usual turkey dinner with all the trimmings and several pies,pumpkin,apple,cheesecake and a gluten free chocolate mousse pie and we watched the parades on t.v.Then we got ready to prepare for the T-birds holiday party which is always fun.                                 

There was so much food at this party and just fun times.Unfortunately after this party I got this horrible respiratory bug.Because I'm asthmatic anything like this really hits me hard and I have to keep a careful eye on my lungs.This bug lasted for six long weeks.It was quite the drag.We ended up having to cancel several outings,which was a real bummer.Daniel and I seemed to be the ones hit the hardest by this.My hubby had a touch of it,but recovered pretty quickly thankfully.

Ariel had also been plagued with a lot of health issues.We did manage to make it to The Port Gamble Country Christmas.I was determined to go sickness or not.Daniel and Michael and I went and really enjoyed it.We always get hot chocolate make mine peppermint and walk around looking at the little shops and then watching the fireworks.

 Then it was time to pick up Nicholas.We picked him up at the airport in the evening and went to church the next morning.

I was still pretty sick at this point and just worn down doing all the holiday stuff,care taking and just trying to get over the awful bug I had.

 We did the usual shopping and going out for some lunches at places Nicholas wanted to go to.Which included Round Table Pizza,The Old Spaghetti Factory and The Golden Grill for Chinese.

  

Deer in the yard makes it feel more Christmassy.

Then the guys and I made a bunch of cookies.Too many we had so many leftovers,but I love spoiling our son when he's home from The Army.

Ariel wasn't feeling well when we did cookies,so when she was feeling better we made a gingerbread house.

We mostly watched a lot of Christmas movies and went shopping a lot.Then Christmas morning We had our usual breakfast Belgian waffles with strawberries and Eggs Benedict.
 Ariel unfortunately wasn't feeling well at all Christmas morning.We waited until she was a bit more herself before opening gifts,but unfortunately that didn't last long.

 Daniel so wanted this shirt when we saw it at Kohl's.Unfortunately they didn't have his size,but amazon had it.Anyone who has ever played The Oregon Trail will know what this shirt is all about,lol!

Even though Ariel wasn't feeling well she absolutely loved this Penguins quilt.
It was a nice day.We listened to the Christmas message on t.v., had a big turkey dinner with all the trimmings and watched some concerts and called all the relatives to wish them Merry Christmas.The rest of the week we just hung out and went to a few more restaurants.On New Years Eve I had plans to let Ariel pick everything to eat and do,but once again she started not feeling well poor thing.She did manage to do some sparklers and have a root beer float.The guys mainly played video games and we watched a few movies.

I'm always hopeful the new year will be better to the kiddo's health wise unfortunately that never seems to be the case,but we're hoping and praying 2020 will be better for them.
God bless,Linn