All I Want For Christmas is My Two Front Teeth

On top of my hellish week with the boys, poor Terran was sick with the flu, recently been vacc. and....teething. Poor love he must have been miserable beyond despair. He was extremly clingy for days upon days and then about a week before Christmas two pearly white poped in.

So it has been a while. With the Holidays and so many birthday the week prior to Christmas makes it nearly impossible to keep up a blog.

Hmmm. Where do I begin? Well about three weeks before Christmas the boys and I caught the plague. It was horrible. I could tell River was coming down with something because he was wheezing a lot and then a couple of days later he got a full on case upper respiratory infection. He had a temp of 102.6 and he was just out of it. He was so limp and tired. It was kinda scary. The next day we went to the doc because they had a schedule check up with vaccinations. I always heard that you shouldn't vacc. your child when they are sick but my ped. was very confident that it wouldn't harm River. So I went ahead and had them both vacc. The next day Terran got what River had. So I had two sick babies that were extremely cranky because of the vacc. Tarran got hit just as hard as River did with this sickness. The same day Terran got sick I came down with the sickness. Let me tell you first hand, it was awful. I woke up in the middle of the night with drenched sheets, pj's and pillows because my fever was so high. Every joint in my body ached even down to the joints in my toes! I was weak and my head was pounding. On top of my sickness I had to take care of Terran who was as sick as I was and River who was pulling out of it but very cranky. Let's just say the whole experience was hellish and I will call my mom next time to help me in that situation.

Christmas tree hunting

This the first time in two years Ben and I haven't rushed to get our tree up a week before Christmas. I was all excited about going with my family to this tree farm that they love to go to every year. Unfortunately Ben had chouire practice that morning and we could make it(sad face). So we decided to make our own family tradition and just go tree hunting with the family. Our first family tradition! How exciting just me the boys and Ben our new little family. Ben and I live right next to this place called Hutton Settlement which is a home for children and use to be an orphanage back in the day. It is a really beautiful and creepy kind of place. Any how they had this program there that teaches kids how to start their own business and they were doing this by starting a tree farm. Perfect! We could walk the boys in the stroller across the street and pick up our tree. Just as we were getting ready to head out Grandma Pat and Auntie Rosie pop in! They were in town to pick up some friends at the airport so they tagged along for the adventure. We found the tree that would grace our living room. Not to big not to small and a wonderful smell!

Auntie Rosie, Ben and the Boys


I hope you can see the beautiful building in the back


Terran and Dad inspect the tree


Family


Who knew you could pack a tree out on a stroller!

The Pumkin Cheese Cake

So I have been very busy the last couple of days with shopping, tree hunting, Thanks Giving and day to day stuff(which with twins can really pile up). So is that a good enough excuse for not posting the past couple of day(please be gracious).

So I decided to go with Lacey's suggestion on the pumpkin cheese cake. I found the perfect recipe and embarked on some unknown territory. This was my first cheese cake ever and I was taking on Thanks Giving with it(the biggest feast of the year!!!). Needless to say I followed the recipe to perfection and took no chances on getting this wrong. My little sister(you know the one who makes the killer apple pie) was not supposed to be here this Thanks Giving(spending it with the in-laws). Sad that the whole family couldn't be there but at least I would have a fighting chance at a successful dessert. OK so I finished my cheese cake and it look great. I was super pumped about how people would rave about it and remember this Thanks Giving forever because of my fabulous cheese cake. My big sis comes to pick me and the boys up to head down to Moscow to stay with my parents. I took extra care and carried the cake on my lap for the two hour drive down(again taking no chance with cake). We arrive at my parents and I straight away to the kitchen to put my cake in the frig. As I round the corner to the kitchen there on the counter is beautiful Pear Tart(straight out of Martha Stewart). I said "oh hey mom did you make a tart?" She said oh no honey Shawna made that isn't it lovely!" I am sitting here thinking I had it in the bag and here comes Shawna to shatter my Thanks Giving dreams!!

So the next day we celebrated Thanks Giving. Dinner was great, got to see all grandma and grandpa and all the aunties and uncles. Then came dessert. There they all were lined up on the table looking so perfect(I will say my cake looked pretty good). You know how it is everyone does a sampler plater of desserts on Thanks Giving. We gobbled them up and not a single word was mentioned about my cheese cake. I mean there was enough left for Ben's families Thanks Giving that we were going to celebrate the next day! Whatever! So Ben and I went for a little walk after all festivities. "So Ben what did you think of my cake?" I asked. "Um, it was ok." "What do you mean ok!!" "It wasn't sweet enough." I am sitting here thinking this is coming form the guy who makes a living on counseling people on fitness and nutrition. Well I tried, I thought it was pretty good(thanks Lacey for the idea)

So Thursday Ben and I and the boys celebrated Thanks Giving with the Greenfield family. I got to decorate the table. It looked great but I cannot take all the credit because Pat(mother in-law) came up with the idea. I offered up my cheese cake for the second time and I think it got better reviews with the Greenfields rather than the Casebolt family. The boys refused nap at all that day making it a little tougher day than hoped but they heled up pretty good. It was a lot of fun. The whole family was there and the boys got a lot of loving. We went to Christmas Park down in Lewiston ID. This was the first time that I actually went to this park. It was pretty cool. I had always driven by it but never stopped. The boys loved all the lights and music. It was a lot of fun and about ten degrees warm which was a bonus.

Well thanks family for another great Thanks Giving! Merry Christmas!!

Here are some pics of the whole shebang!

The girls hanging out around the dessert(go figure, ha ha)

The boys with Grandma Anni (first crackers they loved them)

Aunt Natalie snuggling up to Terran