After Holiday Family Fun!

Our family loves to go shopping at North Park! So we took the kids to eat at Maggiano's, which we absolutely love, and then on to the shopping. We made a few stops along the way, were Madeline found her own entertainment!

Madeline got a Build-a-Bear gift card for Christmas so we took the kids, and I think Pierson enjoyed it more than Madeline!

We took the kids to Gattitown, and they loved it! Pierson just loved all the food, and Madeline wanted to play and ride rides all day! It was a fun day! Pierson had a huge accident in his pants, probably because he ate so much. I had to go next door to Carters and buy him some new socks and pants so Mike wouldn't have to keep carrying him around pantless! It was a mess!

Tiffany goes Gothic!

Okay, so my plan was to get my hair all dark brown (which is my natural hair color) for easy maintenance. Well after talking to my hair lady, we decided to mix 2 colors together to give it a red undertone. Well as you can see my hair is BLACK with red undertones, and I am pale! I thought it might grow on me, but no it hasn't. Back to the salon I must go! I took some pics because some of you have ask to see it.

CHEESE! WOW that is a big smile!

Christmas (The Condensed Version)

Okay so if I had not been so busy as mentioned in my previous post, than this would have been our family Christmas card. However since I never got around to it, none of my family or friends received one from us this year! I know I was sad! My friend Kelly very kindly made this for me! You are so sweet Kelly, and I wish I would of been able to use it. Maybe next year!

We had several Christmas parties this year so let me try to go through them as quick as possible, hopefully without leaving any out!

First, we had my family Christmas party with my mom's side of the family & my dad's mom. We all ate at Saltgrass (all 20 something of us), and then headed back to our house for dessert and presents!

Madeline & Mimi (my mom)

My brother Bo, and Mike

Madeline, Hagen, Sky, & Star(cousins)

Second, we had Mike's Christmas Party for all of his staff! We had it at Primo's on the lake, and it was awesome! My husband is so amazing and I love seeing him in work mode! I think he and his staff have the best real estate team in the area! I can say these things since I am his supportive wife! Even with the market the way it is, they had an increase in sells yet another year! How many other real estate teams can say that right now! You go guys!

No Madeline did not go with us!

Third, we went to our friend's house (Holly & Chad) to have dinner & let the kids exchange gifts! They have a daughter Morgan who is one year younger than Madeline, and they are having a baby boy in January or February! We love you guys!

Excuse Pierson's pants. He had an accident in his other ones!

Fourth, we had our Christmas with Nana (Mike's mom). Nana came over on Christmas Eve for dinner and presents! After presents, we loaded up and went to see Christmas lights! The night would not have been complete without a stop to see Mr. & Mrs. Clause! Every year, we go see this house that has their lights set to music, and they have a stage where Mr. & Mrs. Clause come out to sing & dance! What a fun night!

Fifth, we woke up on Christmas morning to find that Santa had delivered lots of goodies! We spent time opening all of our gifts and stockings before we had to make our next stop!

Random Christmas Picture

Madeline said Santa would want a turkey plate for his cookies because he doesn't have one!

Sixth, we went to my mom & dad's house to have our traditional Christmas breakfast! We scored again, there was lots of food & gifts for everyone!

And last but not least, we couldn't do Christmas without Madeline exchanging gifts with her friend Talon!

* And the one event I had to miss was the Ugly Christmas Sweater Party! I was really excited about going, but our family Christmas party ended up on the same night. Next year, Kelly!

Early Christmas Gift!

Madeline has always loved going into Libbi Lu. So I thought I would go there and buy her some stuff for Christmas. I found out while I was there that they were going out of business in January (all of them). I decided to get Madeline an early Christmas gift, and take her there for a Libbi Du! They do there makeup, nails, hair, and use lots of glitter! She loved it! What a little girls dream!

Updates!

Well I'm back after a lot of chaos, drama, and of course the busy holidays! Well I am going to sum it all up since I have a trillion posts to do over the next week.

My kids were both sick nonstop over the last couple of months! They missed a month and a half of MDO! Madeline along with the whole family got Gastroenteritis. That includes several days of vomiting, diarrhea, body aches and no appetite. It is good for those few pounds you might want to lose. LOL. We all got through it fine without complications except for Madeline. She ended up throwing up bile, getting dehydrated, and wasn't able to stand on her legs because they were hurting so bad. I called the ER and they said there was an 8 hour wait! So Mike & I called our friend who is an ER doctor (he lives down the street) to help us out! We put her on Zofran, tried to give her lots of fluids, and Tylenol for the aches and pain. It worked but was a very long process! So after she recovered from that she developed Croup! Nice, here we go again. Can't we all just be healthy? No we can't, so Pierson seemed to get sick again, and then it was on to the next illness. Pneumonia! Madeline then was treated for Pneumonia and so once again we all got sick! This went on forever! So finally after all this, Pierson decides to sleep 19 hour stretches at night and so I would have to eventually wake him up. He did this for 2 weeks! I called my Pedi, and she told me to bring him in for tests. So we made a trip up there for blood work, then we were sent to the Lab across the street for an arterial stick and more tests. Which was awful. Three of us had to hold him down while he fought and screamed, and then after that we had to go to the hospital for xrays! That wasn't much better. The conclusion was nothing, he just likes to sleep. A few days later he is still sleeping that much and woke up and couldn't stand on his legs for about 45 minutes or so! That freaked me out, even though he had just woke up from a nap, and I thought maybe his legs were asleep! So I called the doctor a couple of days later seeing that it was Christmas Eve. SO she sent us to the ER, and I was there for 5 hours and they didn't do 1 thing. They said he was perfectly normal. That doesn't seem normal to me, but whatever. Since then his sleeping went back to normal which is still 14-15 hours at night. This winter has not been good to our family! Lets pray we can stay healthy for the remaining part of the winter!