Merry sick Christmas

When you think of Christmas you think of presents and lights and trees and family. What you don't think of is fevers and puking and germs and headaches.
Well this year, we got the latter.
By Thursday night, we were droppin' like flies. Myself and 2 of the boys weren't feeling well. By midnight, we were a wreck.
Down for the count were me and Tanner. We were up all during the night. So was Jay as he was the one taking care of us.
I spent the whole day in bed on Christmas Eve. All plans were cancelled and we just stayed home.
By Christmas morning, we were feeling a little better and able to do presents by about 11am.
Santa was good to us this year and we appreciate him braving our sick home.

My favorite part of Christmas is seeing the boys open their gifts and get so excited. I love to see their faces when they get something they've been asking for.....and especially if they get something they never thought they'd see.

Tanner was so excited about his remote control 4 wheeler....


And Tony loved his new Guitar Hero game for Wii.

The older boys loved their new shirts....yep, we've reached that age where your kids actually want clothes.


Trae was so crazy for his Fujigi ball that I couldn't

hardly get

a clear shot.

More clothes for Timmy.....


and a shared gift for the 2 middle boys.

They gave presents to eachother and it looks like Tanner was happy with what he got from Tyler.

Tony's big gift was a guitar. If you saw this kid move his fingers on Guitar Hero, you'd see why we thought this might be a good idea for him.
You can see by Timmy's face, he was a bit surprised by his brothers good fortune.


But Santa made up for it with some fun Wii stuff.


Even with the sickness, it was a great Christmas. We are all better now and very grateful.