Where do I begin???

Well, since it's been a few weeks since my last post it may be a long one....you can quit reading if you get bored. I just want to have it for myself to remember!!

We had a wonderful, busy Thanksgiving. It seems that holidays just go by so fast, sometimes too fast to really enjoy them. Somehow I didn't manage to get any pictures Thanksgiving Day at my parents house, we enjoyed it with my Aunt and Uncle and cousins that we don't get to see to often. Caroline and Claire (my niece) were in their matching Thanksgiving outfits, but I don't have a picture to share. Friday we ate another great meal at Jared's mom's and dinner at his dad's that night.

Caroline and "Cousin Dean"

Saturday morning, after two days of Thanksgiving I had an appointment to get pictures made. I had a "great idea" to ask two of my sister-n-laws to bring their kids so we could get a picture of all of the grand kids for my mom. Not such a great idea for a one month old, three month old, 1 year old, and a three 1/2 year old. Needless to say we won't be getting any of those pictures. Caroline was not to happy after taking pictures for 45 minutes before they got there. I didn't even end up getting a Christmas picture of Will and Caroline. Oh well, we did get lots of others that were good!!

"Dress Rehearsal" for pictures

When we got back from Dothan I couldn't wait to get my Christmas stuff out. I think I was more excited than Will. Our little elf friend "Jack" came out too. Once again....I think I'm more excited than Will. We wanted to go to a tree farm and cut down a tree, but I just decided to put up our ugly artificial tree again for the last time. Since we are still in an apartment it was just easier!! Caroline loves it the most I think, she just stares at the lights. Will did have fun decorating the tree!! Last Saturday I spent most of the day trying to get a Christmas card picture that my sister-n-law Sydney just made for me. Can't wait to send them out!! By the end of their photo shoot this is what they looked like....It's hard trying to get a good one of both of them.

Sunday Jared's mom came because he had knee surgery on Monday. He had a cyst on his knee and they had to go in and remove it. They had to end up doing more than they thought they would. He went back to work today, but probably should have stayed home one more day. Will is also sick with a fever and real bad cough, so no school for him this week :( Hopefully Caroline won't get what he has, but he just can't keep his hands off of her. He's just so sweet, this is how I found them this morning. He even shared his "mimi" (blanket) with her, said she was cold.

My sweet, sick little boy....

Oh...and Caroline's decided she doesn't want to sleep through the night anymore. The past four nights she's woken up twice a night and once last night. So between that, Will being sick and sleeping in the bed with me the past couple of nights and Jared's surgery, I'm feeling a little sleep deprived today. Thankfully when I got on the computer this morning I read my friend Lindsay's blog and saw her post http://silviofamily.blogspot.com/2008/12/choose-joy.html. So, I am going to choose to be happy and joyful today and be thankful for the two sweet children I have, even if they are waking me up all night:)