Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! We sure did. The girls just had a blast. I didn't get too many pictures because I took almost 2 hours of video! Christmas morning was so fun. Kelby enjoyed opening everything and we had a mountain of paper and boxes afterwards! The ultimate present was Woody (from Toy Story) from Gramma and Grampa Morrow. We got Kelby a stroller, so she pushes him around in it all the time. When she gets up from her nap, the first thing she says is, "Wanna take Woody for a ride in the stroller?" It is just so cute. After all the presents here, we went to Gramma and Grampa Wright's for breakfast and more present opening. We had to take Woody and stroller over there too of course. So, we ate and ate, and ate, and ate and played some games while Emma and Kelby played and played. Tegan was a lot of fun too. She enjoyed playing with the presents she got. She is basically sitting up now...if we put her that way she'll stay for a long time. She is almost crawling too. I think that the Christmas tree has been her motivation for that. It looks like she is trying to swim on the carpet more than crawling, but she is really getting around. The last two days the girls and I have been playing with our toys. Santa brought me a cool organizational toy!!! It is a little thingy for my purse that links up with my organizer on the computer. I am in heaven!! You know me and my To Do lists! Kelby likes the piano that Santa brought her...it has a microphone on it. She sings..."Jesus loves me..I know." It is so cute. She also got a Playdoh kit that she likes to play with...it has all kinds of cookie cutters and gadgets for playing with Playdoh. Santa brought the girls a little table and chairs that are neat. I put the table in the kitchen and let her play with the Playdoh in there. They love everything and play with everything! GiGi and PaPa got the girls some adorable blanket teddy bears with the girls' names on them...one for each of them. They both love them. It is so special to have personalized things! Thank you GiGi and PaPa! Kelby already likes to sleep with hers. Mike is having some guys over to play games tonight. We are really the party central around here! This time will only be 8 guys and their computers instead of the 14 guys that set the record. I like to have people over to help us eat all the Christmas goodies that are left over before I eat them all. That's okay...I have four more days to eat it all...then its diet time! Anyways, we are all doing great. We had a wonderful, wonderful Christmas with so much to be thankful for. Kelby was a blast this year. We wish all of you a Happy New Year! God bless. We love you all.

Merry Christmas Eve!! Wow, we have been so busy lately. I can't believe that it has only been a week since I wrote last. I've been cooking and wrapping presents...and don't forget shopping. Kelby has really been having fun shopping. She is really excited about the presents. She always wants to see the toys at the store.

We had friends over for dinner on Thursday night. Then on Friday night we went to the "Festival of Lights" in Warm Beach. It was so much fun. Kelby loved it. It is an outdoor church camp that decorates the whole place with lights. There is a petting zoo, a Santa Claus, a ton of food, carolers, shops, etc. We got there at 6:00 pm, and both girls stayed awake and happy the whole time until we left at 9:15! They just loved it. We carried Tegan around in the backpack. Kelby was dressed in a beautiful little "Miss Santa" jacket and hat. Everyone that saw her walking around commented on how cute she was...I'll include a couple pictures. That jacket and hat have been the most fun for the last week. She has been wearing it everywhere! I think she likes the attention. She didn't want to have anything to do with Santa though. We kinda got a picture, but only with me holding her next to him. Anytime we bring him up now she says..."I don't want to sit on his lap."

On Saturday, we had a pre-Christmas with Mike's family because Zach and Melissa and Riley are in Oregon for Christmas...so we wanted to get together and exchange presents. It was fun to open a present early. Kelby got a cool drawing desk...and then she said..."I want more!" I actually got that statement on video! I am a little worried about that Christmas greed already. She wants to open presents like crazy. She wouldn't eat any turkey until we gave her the entire drumstick! Man, she loved that drumstick though...I'll include some pictures.

Mike and I got to see a movie on Sunday. We went to Lord of the Rings! It was a great movie. It is an experience. You just have to see it on the big screen!

Today is Christmas Eve. I made a wonderful dinner for tonight...with a lot of helpful advice from Gramma and Great Gramma Morrow. Mike had to work half the day, then came home and took Kelby out shopping. I made Prime Rib, twice-baked pototoes, stuffed mushrooms, artichokes, and a salad. We had a candlelight dinner and it was so much fun. I was very proud of myself when I was all done! It turned out good. Then, Michael and I got to go to the candlelight service at church. Now, we are just hanging around waiting for Santa Claus to visit and fill the girls' stockings. We left cheese and sausage for him. I'll try my best to at least get some pictures up tomorrow. Good night to all!

Hello there everyone! We are all doing great right now! Tegan got her first tooth this Saturday...it finally poked through...she has been working on it for the longest time.

I had an easy going week last week. I baked and made all kinds of goodies for our party on Saturday night. We had a blast. There were 20 people in my house. It was just packed. Everyone liked each though, so it worked out just fine. We ate food and played games. Kelby and Tegan stayed here and were really good kids and went to bed at 8:00 just fine. I am glad that I have such good kids. On Sunday we made it to church and then stayed pretty lazy the rest of the day. Kelby seems to be in a much better mood today. She has been pretty needy and moody lately...I think it might be an effect of that Accutane that she is on. She's off of it now until after Christmas.

This week is just an easy week for me. I am loving it. I am all finished with Christmas shopping. All that hard work before was really worth it! Kelby is into the Christmas season I think. She is really excited about the presents under the tree anyways. I want to teach her about giving too...so we have bought a few things for other kids too, and that has been a fun part of this Christmas. I am not sure if she understands or not. Here are a few good pictures. Love to you all.

Hello everyone! I am just sitting here relaxing. Both my girls are sleeping at the same time! I won't write too much because I need to sit back and enjoy some real quiet time. We are all doing much better this week. Everyone is pretty much over their colds. Mike never got one. Kelby is feeling much better. She didn't really have an infection I guess because her blood cultures came back negative. We'll never know what gave her that high fever I guess. She is doing well now. Tegan is not crawling yet, but she is getting around by rolling all over the place. She is very attracted to the Christmas tree. I had MOPS this morning, but now I don't have any MOPS to think about for a whole month because our next meeting is supposed to be on Christmas Day, so we are skipping that one. It will be nice to have the break. Now, I need to get ready for our Christmas party, but that will be easy. It is nice to feel like I can relax today. I am basically done with Christmas shopping. I'll get some pictures up later. I need to get some shots in front of the Christmas tree. I love you all a ton!

Well, it has been a busy week for us! We had a pretty good week up until Friday night. I was flushing Kelby's line when the line burst. It was a pretty big hole. The doctor said we needed to get it out, so we had to go down to Seattle on Saturday. I clamped her line shut and put gauze and tape around the hole until we could have them pull it out. They were going to have the line pulled sometime later this month anyways, so at least they didn't have to replace the line. The doc went to pull it out...they just pull...no pain medicine or anything...but it broke inside of her instead of coming out. So, they had to surgically removed the rest of it. She had to be put under anestesia. She did really well though. We lost our Saturday, but at least she got those tubes out! She was a really strong girl.

She was ready to go the next day...Sunday...we went up to find our Christmas tree. We cut down a tree from up on the mountains. It wasn't too hard to find a good one. Kelby rode in the backpack on Mike's back and I had Tegan in the frontpack. We got our tree and headed home to decorate the house. Kelby had a great time!

On Sunday night Kelby started to feel pretty hot. We gave her some Tylenol and put her to bed. She woke up during the night still hot. We gave her Tylenol so her fever never got past 103 during the day. I called the Seattle doctors and they had us take her in to her doctor up here. He sent us over to get her blood drawn to see how her counts were. They had to prick her finger to get the blood since she doesn't have her line anymore. The counts were pretty good, but since she just had all that monkeying around with her line, they were afraid she might have an infection. Her temperature got up to 104.5 under her arm without the Tylenol. They made us take her to the ER to get blood cultures done and to get her a dose of antibiotics. Her rectal temperature there was 105.1. She had to get blood drawn from each arm, a catheter put in for a urine sample, and a shot of antibiotics in each leg that night. She did so well through it. She is a strong, strong girl. Her fever broke later that night. So far her blood cultures haven't shown an infection, but it could take up to 72 hours. She is feeling much better now that she doesn't have a fever. She had to go back to the doctor on Tuesday and get 2 more shots of antibiotics. They had to put so much medicine in that her legs really hurt and she could barely walk.

At any rate, she is doing much better today. She needs a little extra sleep, but besides that is pretty normal. If she does get another fever in the next few days, I'll have to take her right back in to see the doctor...just to be safe. At least we were able to do all this without going down to Seattle!
Tegan has a cold right now too. Man, this has been a tough week. Now I think I am catching her cold. Other than the cold though, Tegan is doing good. She LOVES "real" food...like rice cereal and mashed up peaches. She is belly crawling now. She's not quite up on her knees, but she is trying to get around. She sure has a temper too. When she doesn't get what she wants, she lets you know it!

Today was a pretty normal day. I got a few things done around the house which always makes me feel better. We are planning to have a bunch of friends over for a party on December 15th. I am excited about that. I hope they will all fit in our house. We'll play games and eat food...don't need too much room for that. I hope that everyone out there is doing really good and enjoying this holiday season.