Merry Christmas!!!!

Merry Christmas everyone, hope the holidays were good for everyone this year. We had a pretty good Christmas here, unfortunately Zayne had to work, but we made it work. Our Christmas started at 4 a.m.--that made for a long day. Santa brought Kyle the Nintendo DS he wanted and Kamryn got a big chair and baby doll, she is apparently LOVING the babies now (have a funny story about that later).

Kyle playing his new DS

Kamryn's new chair and "baby"

After Zayne went to work we went over to dad's to spend Christmas with the rest of my family. It was really nice--missed bro, but understand. It is so neat watching the "little ones" together. Kamryn is turning into such the girlie girl too--she is actually excited about clothes, and loves her new bracelets (thanks aunt pam).

Kamryn and Angela, Kamryn was very concerned Angela would get "her" pile.

We went up to the fire station to visit dad for awhile before going to my aunt and uncle's for Christmas dinner. Of course all day I had my camera--but not many pictures. I did get a cute picture of the three cousins at the end of the day--I think the youngest lasted the longest that day.

Okay, side note about babies I mentioned earlier. I thought about getting Kamryn some doll stuff. You know like a bed and stroller, things to take care of baby. I thought she might not be ready and to possibly wait til her birthday. We went to Zayne's family on Christmas Eve and his cousin has a baby about 9 months older than Kamryn. She had a baby with a bed and stroller--Kamryn loved it--she even tried to change the baby's poopy. I was a little sad after that, I realized Kamryn would have loved it. Well, Aunt Jenny to the rescue. Christmas morning Kamryn opened up a complete take care of baby set from her Uncle Jon, Aunt Jenny and Keelan. Kamryn loves it--woo hoo Aunt Jenny. Kamryn has even taken an old bottle I got from a shower and feeds the baby. It is so cute watching her.

Kamryn taking care of baby

Oh, and I have not forgotten about being tagged. I will try to post those in the next couple of days--I really wanted to get these Christmas memories posted.

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow

I know this is coming a little late, but have not had a chance to post yet. It snowed last week, yes in Houston, TX 2 weeks before Christmas it snowed. Well, it snowed South Texas style; however, some actually started to stick. Kyle was pretty excited about it, especially when he saw his basketball had snow on it--had to take pictures. Kyle was even able to make A snowball. I took some pictures--enjoy, and all you in the north who get actual snow, don't make fun :)!

It is snowing!!!!

The pond in our front yard.

Our cars.

The flower bed with Kyle's basketball. Kyle's snowball.

Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas

Okay, I know it really has been a long time--what is really bad is Zayne has been telling me everyday to update (because of course, I am doing NOTHING right now).

I guess first up would be Kamryn's update from the visit with the specialist. After the visit Zayne and I felt better about what was going on, but not really our options. Apparently the tube that connects Kamryn's kidneys to her bladder was not created the way it should be. The "tube" (which is what I call it because I can never remember the name) is supposed to go into the bladder at an angle. Kamryn's goes straight in, which allows urine to reflux back up into her kidney's. She may or may not grow out of it--so it is a waiting game at this time, since her case is a mild one. What this means, is she has to take preventive medicine every day--which for two people who do not like to rely on medicine is having a hard time coping with. However, the bottom line this is what is best for her. Since she is taking this medicine she has to have her blood checked every 6 months to make sure no ill effects of the medicine. She has to have her urine checked every 3 months and in a year we have to go back for the fun test and visit the doctor. Like I said she could grow out of it, but it could be at the age of 5 or 7. We will monitor for the next couple of years and if there is no change we may elect to do the less evasive surgery. However, if it worsens the doctor said she will have to have surgery--and we really want to try and avoid that. So for the time being, medicine every day and she can't sit in any kind of soapy water (sorry sweetie---no bubble baths yet).

Next was Thanksgiving--which was great except for Zayne having to work. Jon and Jenny came in from Dallas, Amanda came in from Austin, my cousin Kristen and her husband came in from Denver and then my other cousin and her boyfriend came in from Fort Worth. We grew up pretty close and now we are all spread out--it was so great everyone was here for Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, Christmas will be looking dim again--and Zayne has to work again this year. But guess what? He has next Christmas off YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What is most exciting about this is we don't have to get up and do Christmas at 4 a.m. I have a couple of pictures of the kiddos I will post. Side note to my wonderful sister-in-law--I have a couple of pictures of the group, but apparently those were the only ones I took.

The weekend after Thanksgiving we did our usual chopping down the Christmas tree. Kamryn was a little more into this year--big handful. Just loved running around the farm. This year was kind of nice too, we actually had to bundle up to chop down the tree-doesn't usually happen around here.

Well, I am going to close this blog for now--don't want it to end up too long. Things are hectic at work and busy at home with the holidays, but I promise I will try to update more often. The good news, after Christmas I am taking a week off work so hopefully I can catch up on things.

Here are the three little princesses Here is their prince with them Mom and dad I want this tree.

What do you mean there is a 6 foot minimum. This is the one, dad and brother cut it down.

Here is dad and brother chopping down the tree.

I got to help with some ornaments.