Christopher turns 7

January 22, 2003 was a normal day. Play at home with Benjamin, clean house, sit around and then a doctors appointment. My sister Lilly watched Benajmin while Doug took me to the appointment. Then everything changed. There was a possibility I could have Toxemia so I needed to take all this stuff home to collect samples all night, but wait another option: I could just have the baby. Having the baby sounded good to me so my midwife broke my water (about 4pm), I flooded the place (I had a lot of amniotic fluid), and then horrible contractions forever. An epidural and short nap later and just after 7am Christopher was born. My how the time flies now he is a big 7 year old.

He got these cool PJ's and loves them

Opening some more gifts

Eating his cake and ice cream. Happy Birthday Chris!

Christmas at Grandma's and Grandpa's

Like I said last post, after we were done with Christmas at our house we loaded up and went to my parent's place for more Christmas celebration. Most everyone was there even if it was for a brief period. It was nice to be with everyone even if we were a little crowded. Boy have we grown.

Christopher and Evan full of excitement

Gifts waiting to be opened

The grandchildren helped pass out the gifts. Here Lex is taking her turn.

Lilly's boy Parker opening a gift

Grandma gave Evan a Dora blanket. He was so excited that he spread it out and demanded a picture be taken

Now December pictures are all done. Phew! Oh, wait! Now it is February and I still have January pictures to do. Man it is hard when you fall behind. I'll try to get the new pics on the computer soon and load them up. Until then enjoy life!

Christmas at our house

More Christmas - better late than never.

We had to set up some sort of blockade to make sure the children wouldn't come out to peek at their stocking before it was time.

The line up to come out and see what goodies were left if any
The stockings before the crowd hit them

Lexie opening up her stocking of goodies

Little candy striper

Cool girl Lex hangin' with mommy

Opening the big box from Uncle Roy and Aunt Sierra

Ben opening a cookbook

Everyone has to huddle where the gift opening is. Chris is trying to open one of his gifts

Lexie got her first baby doll for Christmas and it was love at first sight.

We had a nice Christmas morning at home. After the stocking we ate breakfast which consisted of Clementines from our stockings and Butterbraid bread (so good if you've never had it kinda like a huge danish in loaf form). After all the gifts were done we played a little and then bundled up to go to my parents for more unwrapping.

Christmas Eve

I guess it is about time I put some of our Christmas activities up. There were so many to go through it took a bit of doing, but now I'm done so here we go.

This year we didn't have a Christmas party because of my bad back so we made a list of things we could do, cut them up, put them in a jar, and randomly drew what we would do on Chritmas Eve. Here's our evening in pictures and lots of them.

We made candy

And some of us ate it too!

We played some games. Lex is trying to drop a pencil in a pop jar.

Here she is playing a Christmas toss game

We made Christmas wreaths and then ate them.

Lex and daddy

Evan

Christopher

Benjamin

We had a snacky Christmas dinner party just for us

Then it was bedtime and time for Santa, but those are for another post.

Primary Christmas Party

Our church had a Christmas party for the children and while I wasn't able to be there Doug took the kids and some pictures. They had games and a visit from Santa, of course. Looks like they got a singing santa.

Listening to Santa
Lexie not sure about sitting on Santa's lap

Evan on Santa's lap

Ben on Santa's lap. Isn't he getting a little big for this?Chris on Santa's lap

End of Year Pictures

Evan

Christopher

Benjamin


Alexis

Random pictures

Chris was sent to timeout for some reason and Lexie decided to follow. I'm pretty sure sure she was counting for hide and seek because she loves to do that, but I thought it real cute that she would follow her brother to the corner.

Not the most flattering shot of me, but a cute overall shot with the kids. I spent a lot of time in bed while waiting for my back to heal and watched a lot of movies. Evan and Lex decided to join me for a movie watch.

Ben was so kind and thoughtful. He made me a mailbox while I was on bed rest and the kids wrote me letters of love and best wishes for getting better.