Thanksgiving and Intro to Christmas!

I'm a bit sad because our Thanksgiving is already over. Tonight is back to homework, early bedtimes, making lunches and picking out clothes for school.  Thanksgiving is such a heartwarming Holiday and I'm sad that we have a whole 'nother year until it comes back around. I'm even more sad our break was interrupted by a yucky stomach bug that all 3 kids got. 

Sully woke up on Thursday with throwup in his crib in the morning and again at nap, and he has had diarrhea for days! Shawn and I and the girls didn't catch anything right away so we decorated the house with Christmas decorations and put up the tree on Friday night. We all got matching pajamas (MY FAVORITE!) and cranked up the Christmas music.  It was the most heartwarming thing ever!  Nothing makes me happier than Christmas traditions! But at 2am we heard screaming from upstairs so I sprinted up only to smell that tell-tale smell....Throw-up.  Lucy had thrown up ALL over her bed. She was drenched in it and it was everywhere.  We rinsed her off and she slept in the doorway of my bathroom that night.  Well, Piper didn't want to be alone up in their room so Daddy climbed into bed with her, and within an hour she was throwing up as well.  They each only threw up 2 times, thankfully.  But the next day they were still very weak and tired. I spent hours and hours yesterday cleaning and disinfecting the house and just when I was making head-way, suddenly Sully had a diarrhea explosion (all over the carpet) and THEN threw up again- in my cupped hands, and all over Sully's was weird because it seemed like it went away Friday but came back full-force Saturday.  Saturday night after the house was sanitized from top to bottom, my stomach started rumbling.  Thankfully I didn't throw up, but I had the worst stomach-ache all night. Every time I moved in bed it felt like I was getting punched.  I was nauseas all day today and weak and clammy.  Shawn got the chills and shakes in the night last night with some nausea as well, but lukily neither him nor I threw up.

I'm feeling much better than I was this morning and I can tell tomorrow I'll be almost back to normal.  I'm just bummed because I had Christmas crafts lined up to do with the girls that we didn't get to do, and we were going to bake some Christmas goodies last night and it didn't happen. Plus Lucy had to miss out on a friend's birthday party AND a play-date. Oh well.... it's life! :(

At least I got the house decorated and the tree put up before the sickness set in for me and the girls!  Plus, Thanksgiving dinner was AMAZING.  No, sweet Sully didn't eat (he was sick, remember) but Shawn smoked THE MOST delicious turkey ever.  I am not a huge fan of turkey, but I could NOT stop eating this.  It was so, so, soooooo, SO good.  Truly the best I've ever had. I made all the traditional food (freshly baked bread, mashed potatoes, stuffing, carrots and celery, plus a new addition- bacon wrapped asparagus! YUM!) and we had a really nice night. The girls watched and fell in love with Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving and I felt warmth and happiness in my heart. It was the perfect kick-off to the holiday season.  (Also worth noting: the girls LOVE our mistletoe. They bring Sully under it to kiss his sweet cheeks all day long. It's just the sweetest.) 

Friday we ventured out for a couple hours to hit up Target but we missed all the door-busters so I didn't get much this year.  And I was tired.  At least I tried though :)

Now we have 1 more month of school before a 2 week Christmas break, and fingers crossed there's no sickness next time!

Also, just 10 more days until our cruise! We are having Mickey and Minnie call to tell the girls the good news on Saturday! I'm SO excited! 

But for now, it's back to school we go....

You'd never know he had just thrown up an hour before this picture was taken. Sweet boy!

 The girls LOVE doing filters with me :) We are Koalas here, haha.

Even though we weren't able to do our Christmas crafts, we WERE able to make Sock Puppets. They named theirs Ruby and Rose :) 

It's the end of November but we still have some days in the 70's!

I love this picture. It just captures so perfectly how happy he was to get pictures taken! :)

I had to take a picture like this because I know every year my Boise family does it and I wanted to be a part of it.  So I was hoping they could photoshop me in. They didn't though. Pshhh.

It was Sully's first year helping us hang ornaments. He loved it. He focused so hard on getting his little hooks over the branches. I can't stand how adorable it was! I have such sweet memories of the first years that the girls also decorated our trees. These are the memories I will cherish for the rest of my life. 

P.S. Maisy got a Christmas haircut, complete with a Christmas scarf :)