Merry Christmas!

We have been super busy lately, but what else would you expect around Christmas? Mark and Ella have been sick pretty much this entire month, and our latest illness has both of them on the nebulizer and Mark on antibiotics and steriods (thanks RSV)! They are feeling better this week now that they no longer have fevers, but we're still feeling the effects.

I took the kiddos to see Santa this morning and you can see how that went! The tears stopped immediately after I picked them up, so no long term trauma.

And the first pic is Mark and Ella every morning after breakfast. They eat their oatmeal, trot off with their drinks to the dog bed, and giggle doing who knows what. The other day I peeked and caught Ella feeding Mark his drink. They will sit there for a good 10 minutes entertaining each other. Too cute!

Happy Thanksgiving

Not a whole lot has been going on lately (just a little crayon eating). We celebrated Thanksgiving this year with colds for the entire family. It really wasn't too bad, just a little annoying. Mark and Ella are still getting over their gunk, so we'll see how long it lasts.

The day after Thanksgiving we got together with all the Meloys (including Matt's sister from KS and his grandpa from AZ) to get some family pictures taken. It was crazy and chaotic with all 5 kids, but I think it turned out pretty well. I only have one picture of Mark and Ella, so I'm waiting on the rest.

Now we are just getting ready for Christmas with lots of fun shopping. The house is decorated (only the tree is left) and I was able to put most everything out. The stockings are sitting on the mantle instead of hanging, but thats about all. Not too bad!