Our Thanksgiving Week

It has been a very busy couple of weeks. Skip completed another term of school and did great. Go, Skip!! We were both looking so forward to finals being over and vacations starting.

On Friday of finals week, however, our vacation plans changed. We learned that Jace would need to have his tonsils and adenoids out on Tuesday (2 days before Thanksgiving). It was good timing in that Skip would be off from school to be there and help out, but also bad timing in that we did not want to spend our Thanksgiving vacation in this way.

Tuesday rolled around and Jace had his surgery. Everything went well. We even had a friend in on the operation to take extra good care of Jace, Thanks Levi. The surgery went well and now it was on to recovery. Jace was every bit as crazy, coming out of anesthesia, as his brother has been. He was thrashing around not understanding what was happening. This is so hard to watch as a mom. I felt so bad for him. After being in the recovery room for a couple of hours we were able to take Jace home.

Jace's surgery has been a lot harder of a recovery, than I remember of Casen's. Jace has just been extremely moody. He also absolutely hates taking his medications....it takes both Skip and I to hold him down and give them to him, even then sometimes he spits them right back out. That part has been really frustrating.

So, this week was spent mostly relaxing, watching movies, holding Jace, etc. etc. We did have a nice Thanksgiving dinner with all of the fixings. Yummy. We were also able to get all of our Christmas stuff set up (at least as much as we are willing to do for this year). Here are some pictures.

Here are the boys hanging Christmas lights outside. Skip really did not want to hang lights this year but Casen was so excited to do it that it was a must.

Dad basically did all of the work.....while the boys played


Here is the final product. Not a lot of lights......but enough that the kids were impressed.

The boys were so proud of the Christmas tree they helped to decorate.