Our Christmas

Well, this Christmas was interesting. First of all, Caroline has been sick this week. She's had a terrible cold and an ear infection. I'm not sure if it's the medicine she's been on or the lack of peaceful sleep or just a bad case of Toddleritis, but she's been really ornery lately.

Unfortunately, Christmas was no exception.

But, we did have some good times in spite of it!

Caroline loved opening gifts and was a good sport, even though she was coughing the entire time! Caroline got lots of stuff from cousins - it was so fun to hear her say stuff like, "From Holly? From Baby Jenna? That's so nice!"

Archie the Pup was our early Christmas gift! We got him from the same family we got Stewy from. (although Stewy and Archie have different mommies) They were so nice and understanding. And Archie is a good puppy. He is bigger and A LOT more energetic and playful!

Caroline posing with her loot!

That afternoon, we were feeling a little cooped up (especially since we've had to keep Caroline home because she's been sick) so we decided to go to the park by our library. And it was finally a nice, sunny day! Lately it has been so cloudy and rainy (really. for like, 2 or 3 weeks) I asked Dave, "Did we move to Mississippi or Seattle?" I was really missing the Sun! Anyway, we love going to this park because of all the geese! They walk right up to you if you have food for them!

Dave especially loves the geese and I think he could feed them for hours! But Caroline started coughing and we decided to take her home.

That night, Uncle Brad came over and we played Guitar Hero (Dave's Christmas present!) for a couple hours! It's really pretty fun! I'm not much of a video game person, but this is different - I really got into it!

It was a nice Christmas at home, despite some behavioral issues (I really hate to put a kid in time-out on Christmas Day, but a Mom's gotta do what a Mom's gotta do ya know!)

I really missed my AZ family and NM friends this year, but I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!