Greg and I kept saying, "Where on Earth did the month of December go?" It seemed like the month flew by right in front of our eyes. We are both sad that the holidays are over. It's just something I love about all the holidays. The house feels more homey, there's an excitement in the air. The stores are busy and stocked with everything Christmas you can imagine. Nice cold weather and Christmas music on the radio.
So now it's time to slowly start taking the decorations down. We usually put the tree up the day after Thanksgiving and take it down New Years day. I've already started gathering things from the living room and putting them all in one spot near the Christmas tree.
Any who, the month of December was busy. Well sort of. It started off great. Grammie and Poppa Bob were here visiting. It was a short visit but a nice one. It was nice to have family here and to have company.
Landon and Owen enjoyed having them around and getting spoiled. Me too! :) We did some shopping, ate some AMAZING German food and started Zap the elf.
We went over to the Air Force Academy. I hadn't been yet, so I was excited to go. It's so pretty there.
We were able to get out and walk around and check some things out. It was pretty quite since it was a Saturday...
We even got to go inside the Chapel. It was SO pretty.
It was definitely interesting to see. Things like that interest me. How the Academy works and all that. Pretty dang cool.
We decorated the pine tree out front and put our inflatable fire truck out.
And Zap was up to lots of monkey business.
Landon also got to build a gingerbread house with them.
It turned out pretty nice!
It was hard to say goodbye........
Dang Zap, you're so bad!
I also got a new iPhone 5! I LOVE LOVE LOVE it. It's so fast and pretty. I can now face time which is great. Landon loves it.
A few days after they left Owen came down with a nasty nasty stomach virus. Vomiting for 12 hours, then diarrhea for about 10 days. Poor poor baby. I was at the doctors three times that week. Landon also had it, and Greg came down with strep again. (He just finished his antibiotics a few days prior to it coming back)
Landon also had Kindergarten craft night. We got to go and do some pretty cool craft projects.
Poor Owen was not feeling good still....
Landon with Own and Mrs. Ferguson. I LOVE her so much. I'll be so sad when he has to leave her to go to first grade.....
Once Owen was better, no more vomiting or diarrhea he started to get really fussy for a few days. Next thing we knew he was coughing. He started to have a low grade fever. I went back to the doctors and he had an ear infection and croup. Oh my word, that poor baby. BUT after about 2 days of antibiotics he was the happiest baby ever. He started sleeping through the night!!!
We also had Greg's office Christmas party. It was on a Friday at 12. We went for a few hours then had to leave to get Landon from school. It was nice to meet some of his coworkers.
I spent the rest of my days getting things ready for Christmas, mailing off packages taking care of Owen and Landon and keeping up with the house. Exhaustion had set in. As soon as Owen was out at 7, so was I!
I'm ready to get things back to normal. Friday night I slept wrong so my neck was sore yesterday morning. I took some Motrin but it was ok. By 2pm while we were at the Commissary I must have turned wrong because I was in SO MUCH PAIN. I could barely turn my neck, not look down or anything. It was shooting pains to my brain and giving me a headache. It made me dizzy and a few times made me want to vomit. I came home and took some meds, applied ice and a heat pack and tried to rest. By bed time I was so stiff and hurting. It was still painful this morning, but as the day goes on it's getting better. Greg is making fun of the way I turn to look at things. I look pretty silly. I am just ready to feel better!
