Christmas Fun

This year we celebrated Christmas at my sister's lake cabin. It was a lot of fun to get away for the weekend and all be together celebrating Christmas. Thanks again Heather for having us! :) We started a new tradition and had fondue on Christmas Eve. It was really fun!
Christmas Day, Charlie gave us his gift and slept in until 8am! Yay!

On New Year's weekend we had a quiet weekend at home. It was so nice and relaxing. Brent and I had cheese fondue (again!), lobster, and dessert was chocolate fondue. We watched a movie and stayed awake just long enough to ring in the 2011 by watching the ball drop. Charlie was very kind to us again and this time slept in until 9am! We have been very spoiled over the holidays. I know the sleeping in will end soon so we are enjoying it.

Christmas weekend we took the babies outside to play in the snow. We put them both in a tube and plowed through the snow. It was pretty cute to see them snuggled in together.

Enjoy the pictures!

These are from the Bauman Christmas in Kerkhoven this year. Charlie with Great Grandma Bauman and Great Grandpa in the background.


My grandparents gave Charlie a story book that has their voices recorded reading the book. I think it's the new Hallmark recordable books. It is very special and soo cute!


Peek-a-boo!


Christmas at the Totman's Lake:

Morfar with the grandkids


Cutie pie Bethany




Presents!


Charlie's first Christmas sloooowly ripping the paper


Playing in the snow!


Bella had a fun Christmas too


Cuddly cousins


Charlie and Bella are becoming buddies


Family picture :)


The Totmans


Sisters and babies


Fun with Morfar!


Grandma Gilchrist gave Charlie these CUTE pj's


Oooh pretty tree


Sleepy snuggles with mommy




Charlie found a new seat on the kitchen sink


Ok, realized that I added a ton of photos! Enjoy because I probably won't post for awhile :) haha, jk!

The story of the surgery that didn't happen

Charlie was scheduled to have surgery for a circumcision a few days ago on Tuesday. We had everything planned and set. Brent and I were up at 4:30am, left the house by 5:15 so we could be at the hospital by 6am. (we were actually early...can you believe it?!?!) Charlie was so confused why we were waking up so early to get in the car. Well long story short, they thought Charlie had pink eye and cancelled the surgery for that day. It was pretty frustrating to have everything set up, to have Charlie not be able to eat/drink anything, and to have to try to reschedule everything to be done before the New Year. I definately understand why they had to cancel, but as a mom I was just thinking, "it's just pink eye, so what if they get it, their eye would just be red and goopy!" :) Very nice of me...glad I didn't say it outloud :)

Well, we got home and his eyes were perfectly clear. Frustrating. At the hospital they were red, dripping, green goop, and at home they were clear??

So we spent the day with Mormor (my mom :) Swedish for mother's mother). The next day Charlie was pretty sick, he had a lot of chest congestion, stuffy nose, and slept ALL day long. He was probably awake for 30 min total from 7am-4pm. That is very unlike any baby to sleep that long. You could tell he felt so miserable. But each day he is getting better, I think he'll be completely healthy by the end of the weekend.

I think the potential pink eye was God's way of letting the surgery be cancelled because his cold symptoms didn't show til the next day. He may have gotten even sicker or had respiratory complications if he would have gone under general anesthesia. It just is a reminder to me that God is in control and He knows WAY more than I do :)

We rescheduled the surgery for this coming Tuesday at 3:15pm. I'm bummed that it is the last case of the day because I know that it will probably be delayed just from all the other cases and stuff that always comes up in the hospital. It will be fun to keep Charlie happy when he can't eat all day! If anyone has any great ideas, let me know! I am very happy that we can do it this year though, so no more complaining coming from me. If you could please pray that all goes well on Tuesday, that he has no complications from the anesthesia, and that he stays HEALTHY until then. Thank you!

Here are some cute pictures of Charlie in the little scrubs from Children's Hospital.









And this picture was just too cute to not post :)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Even though it's freezing outside and I am wondering why I live here, Charlie is all smiles when he looks at the pretty snowflakes. He doesn't love when the wind blows in his face, or having to be bundled up in all his snow gear and hats, or when the snow melts in his hands and "disappears". But he loves to look at it and pound on the windows in excitement.

We've had a busy and sick start of the winter at our house. Brent has been gone hunting a lot this fall/early winter (not nearly as much hunting as he would like to do!) and we've been doing lots of playing at our house. We all got the "crud" that everyone has been getting, lots of colds, everyone got the stomach flu -including my in-laws who came for a few days...what a nice gift to give them... :( and Charlie had pink eye once and I got it twice (who knew you should throw your mascara away when you have pink eye...now I know! ha! ). The cold/flu season is definately upon us.

We have had major internet/computer issues. Right now I still can't get all the pictures from our old computer onto our new one AND I just found out I can't put my memory card from my camera into our new computer...uugh! So hopefully we can get it figured out soon!

But here are some pictures that I was able to salvage:

These pictures are from the first big snowstorm that we had several weeks ago. Brent was out of town hunting. Within a few hours of it snowing we lost power at our house for over 7 hours. It got pretty chilly in our house so we went to visit the Moorlags and Charlie and Logan had a play date :)









We went to the Macy's 8th floor while my In-Laws were here a couple weekends ago. It was so much fun! Charlie was mesmorized by all the lights and scenes. It was a lot of fun...no holidazzle parade for us. Too cold outside for the little guy this year :)

Christmas Card 2010

Well it is time to think about our Christmas card for 2010. I've been putting it off because I can't decide which picture to use. We have some cute pictures from this summer when Charlie was 6 months old but there are too many cute ones!! Or maybe we should just do one cute picture of Charlie by himself...hmmm...decisions, decisions :)

I've been thinking about it for awhile and this year we are using Shutterfly for our Christmas cards. I just love Shutterfly. They have so many cute and fun card designs to choose from. I am just trying to decide which one I want to use!!

I have used shutterfly to store my favorite photos for a place friends and family can view them. I have made a few photo books that I've given as gifts for birthdays and mother's day. I think I may even make a few for Christmas this year. It's way better than scrapbooking and it looks even better in my opinion! :)

My family has made calendars in the past that are a fun way to personalize each month (Charlie's birthday in February, a picture of us at the parade for July, etc): http://www.shutterfly.com/calendars/desk-calendars

I'm going to use shutterfly to make Charlie's 1st birthday party cards from this site, check out this link: http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/birthday-cards-stationery


Christmas cards from here: http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-photo-cards


Upcoming....a lot of new pictures! We can only start our computer in safe mode which means our pictures are locked on our computer but I think I can use Brent's work one soon :)