Christmas Eve and Christmas 2012

Christmas was a interesting for us this year.  On the 23rd, Josh and Bryce came down with a fever.  It was Influenza.  Christmas Eve morning, Isaac and Quinn came down with it.  I was praying and praying that I could stay well long enough to get everything ready for Christmas.  By the night of Christmas Eve, Parker wasn't feeling well either.  We originally had planned to make cookies for Santa and have our traditional cheese and fruit tray Christmas Eve dinner.  We decided to skip the cookies and half-heartedly ate our dinner.  We managed to read the Christmas story from the bible and got all our sick kids to bed.  By the time they were in bed I started getting sick too!  I was wrapping last minute presents and getting everything ready for Christmas while burning up with fever.  Oh the things a mom does for her kids! :)  But everything got done and we all survived.

Christmas morning everyone was super sick, but we got up and found stockings and gifts left from Santa!  We opened our gifts and pretty much spent the day relaxing and enjoying our time together.  We ended up canceling our trips to visit our families.  We even skipped our Christmas dinner since none of us felt like eating much.  We were sick for the entire week!  In the end, we were somewhat grateful that we got sick when we did.  We had the whole week to recover and not have to worry about school or work.  Other than messing up some of our plans, it ended up being a good time to have to be sick. :)

Sick baby and daddy:

Josh's gifts:

Parker's gifts:

Isaac's gifts:

Quinn's gifts:

Bryce's gifts

My gifts:

Gifts to share:

Poor sick Isaac fell asleep reading his book:

Had to add this for memory's sake.  I found this in our Christmas decorations.  

The first Christmas after Josh and I were married we didn't have a lot of money for 

Christmas decorations, but we really wanted a Nativity.  We took paper, and made 

oragami figurines!  The top row is an angel and two shepherds.  In the middle is Mary and Joseph 

and along the bottom are the Three Wisemen.  We had some sort of baby Jesus, but I guess we don't have that one anymore.   A neat memory and keepsake. :)