Christmas 2008

Decorating the Tree

The kids always have so much fun decorating the tree. Here are some more pics of the kids. They have so much fun looking at all the old ornaments that they made at school throughout the years.

Our First ER trip with Abigail

Yesterday the kids were goofing around and Abigail was sitting on my lap while Jacob was throwing a blanket over us. He threw the blanket to high and it hit a picture of Jesus from off a shelf that was above us and the picture came crashing down onto Abby's head. I rushed her to the bathroom and saw the large gash on top of her head. I yelled at Zach that we needed to take her to the ER and off we went. When we got there they put a numbing solution on the gash so that when they stiched her up she wouldn't feel it. She was such a tough girl. She only cried for a few minutes and that was right after it had happened. She didn't even feel them pulling the tape out of her hair and if you know Abby she cries whenever you touch her hair with a hairbrush. She received 8 stiches and has to have them for 1 week. Jacob felt so bad he cried all the way to the hospital. Abigail told Jacob this morning," Jacob, it's ok. It was an accident." She knew that her brother felt bad for what happened and she wanted to let him know that she was ok. Today, Abby was fine, it was as if nothing had happened. What a trooper!!!

O Christmas Tree

Over the years we have gone out as a family and cut down our own Christmas tree at the tree farm. Last year we bought our tree from a lot and it was the last year we will ever do that because it was dead before Christmas even got here. This year we went to a tree farm and Jacob helped pick out the tree and helped cut it down. He thought that he was so cool. MaKayla found a rabbit home and was trying to fix it because it had been stepped on and Abigail was looking at all the little trees that were her size. We had to defrost the tree overnight and then decorated it the next day. The kids have so much fun looking through the ornaments and finding the ones that they had made in previous years. I was the lucky one to put on the lights. My hands were so sticky from sap and had red dots all over them from the needles but I got it done. Thank goodness the tree will only be up for a couple of weeks because it takes up a huge portion of our family room. I like big trees.