Check out Jane singing...

So the other night at bedtime I was singing this to Jane and all of the sudden she started singing with me. I had no idea she knew the entire song! It cracked me up. Then I started to sing others and when I'd stop she'd fininsh the sentence. The little smarty pants.

She is just my little sweetie that melts my heart daily. The things she says and does...she's so funny! Everything I do she is so grateful. She says "thank you mommy" to me 20 times/day. And if someone is sad, she will just go up and put her little arms around them and say, "it's okay". Like I said, she melts your heart.

Twas the first day of break and all through the house...

Kids were going crazy and NOT quiet like a mouse!
We stayed in our PJ's, took naps, ate neighbors treats.
The kids were bored, not obeying, not too sweet.

So, funny story, kindof:
Friday night, a girl in our ward did a fundraiser with some other girls (to raise money for needy families this Christmas). They sold babysitting tickets and we, of course, bought three, one for each kid. There were about 40 kids there, total. It was organized chaos. But they had a blast!

Well, 24 hours later, the "fun" began. Saturday night, about 6 families children who were at the babysitting night (that's just so far that I've talked to), were up with their kids puking all night long. Sunday, I thought we had escaped it. My kids all felt great and were happy as could be. Then while we were at church, Jane threw up ALL over me. She continued to throw up every hour till about 10:00pm last night. Then, all night long she woke up crying. Her tummy hurt and she was thirsty. I gave her little sips of water throughout the night and finally this morning at 6am after 8 hours of no throwing up, I let her have some crackers and more water. Basically, she slept with me and about 2am Tom went into her bed.

Now I have secluded our family from any others for the next 24 hours to make sure it is OVER. It was so quick spreading I don't dare go anywhere, for fear of spreading it to some other poor soul.

We are all going crazy, ready for dad to get home from work to entertain us, and it's only 3:30 in the afternoon. Hopefully tonight will be uneventful, restful, and then tomorrow we can go play!

One week till Christmas...

Here are my cute school boys on the last day of school before winter break! Janie decided to dress up in her fairy outfit. She is so funny!

Santa visited our ward Christmas party. The boys were thrilled to see him (as you can tell), and Jane wanted NOTHING do do with him, except the candy cane he was giving out. When I tried to put her on his lap, she freaked.

So with one week left, we are finally ready for christmas to come!

The only thing I'm not so ready for is the time at home with my kids. I desperately need some ideas of fun things to do this next week so we don't all get on each others nerves! Any ideas would be appreciated!

Newest Addition

So we got our Christmas present a little early this year...a piano. I've been wanting one for a long time now, and we finally decided to just buckle down and buy one. It is accompanied by our Christmas tree at the moment (had to post a picture of our tree. We cut it down over Thanksgiving in the mountains with Tom's family. Cute, huh?)

The boys have loved playing on the piano, and i'm going to get them started on lessons at the new year. I've really enjoyed getting back into playing again as well! Christmas is a fun time to have fun songs to play!

Oh, and one more exciting thing...Maria set a date for the wedding...March 20th. We are super excited for her. Now let's just pray this baby stays inside of me till we get home from the wedding!