It's Almost Christmas

My sister-in-law, Mary, took this picture of Drew at my parent's house on Sunday. He will pose for her but never for me. Thanks Mary! Sunday was the start of our countdown to Christmas. We had our annual Christensen White Elephant Gift Exchange. It was so much fun. This year, we didn't exchange gifts with one another but decided to up the amount you spend on your white elephant and make them nice gifts. I think it was a huge success, and I think I liked it better. I was so excited to see what we would get. Ryan got scratcher tickets and Neilson's Frozen Custard gift certificate and I got a DVD set with the classic Christmas movies. Not as much arguing over gifts because pretty much all were awesome gifts. Again, I ate too much with all the yummy pizza and Cindi's famous popcorn.

Then yesterday was my laundry day and I was going to clean out our garage but then Kylee was fussy in the morning, which is so not like her. I touched her ear and she screamed. I went to touch it again and she screamed. I got her into the doctor and she has a really bad ear infection. Poor thing. So that scrapped my afternoon plans. She is on a really strong antibiotic and is feeling a lot better today. We are very grateful her RSV is almost gone. She had a rough night Thursday but got back to sleeping better by Friday night. She only had this nasty cough which is now just a little cough. She has been such a trooper lately. She actually slept her longest stretch on Sunday night, 7 hours, so I was pretty surprised when she had an ear infection.

So tonight we are going to the temple lights and take Drew to see Santa. With all the craziness of the kids being sick, we still haven't seen Santa. Hopefully it is not too crazy. Then tomorrow we have Christmas Eve dinner and go look at Christmas lights. I try to keep tomorrow low key but I am having issues with Drew's present from Santa. We got him a lawnmower but when we put it together Sunday, it was way too noisy for us to tolerate. So it is going back to the store and all the stores are sold out of toy lawn mowers. I don't know what to do. Hopefully it all works out. Anyways, can't wait for Thursday. It is so much fun when your kids are old enough to somewhat understand. Have a Merry Christmas everyone!

Oh ya...we got the green light to go to Utah the day after Christmas! And hopefully we will have a surprise when we get back! :)