Days Leading up to Christmas

We were able to get together Wednesday night with the Harvey's so the kids could exchange gifts. Thanks for a yummy dinner and all of the presents!!

We bought Madi and Makenna matching shirts on Etsy. I bought them for K & C too. Aren't they too cute?!?! They are really nicely embroidered! The only thing I was disappointed with was the fabric was a polka dot and the dots were too big so you cant really tell that its a polka dot fabric....but they are still super cute:) Cant wait for them to all wear their shirts!!

Colin and Madi had a big ka-boom! He was showing me his "feel sorry for me" serious face!

Then Kaitlyn had to show me her sad face....with remnants of chocolate from dessert on her chin and cheek:) Little did we know she would be vomiting about an hour later:(

Kaitlyn caught Colins flu like virus. She vomited for 9 hours straight! She was so sick!! We took her to the dr Christmas Eve morning and she took one look at K and said she needed to go to the hospital for iv fluids. But once she examined her she said her mucous membranes weren't as dry as she expected based on how she looked. Luckily we avoided a trip to the ER!! Here is Cam trying to get Pedialyte in her...since she only drinks milk and water she REFUSES any flavored drinks....makes it hard when the kids get sick and dont want anything except water!

She was so weak from all of the vomiting!!

Colin was still recouping and catching up on sleep too. Cam found him(we thought he was in his room napping) under the desk in the loft out cold napping:)

Elfie brought the kids Christmas pjs to wear...they were really from grandma who wants to add this tradition every year:). They were SO excited that Santa sent Elfie back from the North Pole with presents. They were outside of their doors when they woke up in the morning:) Unfortunately they were too small and I had to exchange them for larger sizes and they were out of pink and blue.

The kids went to bed early Christmas Eve night. We were supposed to host Christmas Eve so we were sad that K was sick and had to cancel. It turned out to be a quiet evening at home which was nice! Santa sure did come....K & C must have been on the nice list!!

The kids frosted vanilla wafer cookies and added sprinkles to them. Of course they wanted to leave 9 carrots for each of the reindeer! They love using their special Cookies 4 Santa plate that Grandma Willis made for them!!! They enjoy taking it out every year and thinking of grandma!