The Holidays

So I haven't posted a blog in..forever, minus the one I posted earlier today. That is probably due to the fact that it has been Christmas and we have been spending time with family, and I have been completed addicted to the Twilight books for the past week and finished the third book last night. And yes, I really enjoyed them. Bella got pretty whiny here and there, but I still liked reading them. Anyways, so I thought I would just blog about our holidays and how it all went. First off, Chirstmas Eve/Christmas was not what I had pictured them to be. We were spending Chirstmas Eve night with my family this year, my brother was here with his fam, and so we all spent it together. I was really excited about it and was looking forward to setting up the presents and filling the stockings with Ben while the kids slept....this is not what happened.
Just as the kids were going to bed James ran into Harrison's head and started screaming, blood was pouring from his mouth and yep, you guessed it his tooth had popped right out. Fortunately, one of my friends dad is a dentist so I called him to ask what to do and he said that we should try to put it back in, but other than that not to worry because it was just a primary tooth. So, and this makes me so sad, we had to hold the poor kid down and I put the tooth back in place. It was terrible. He was just screaming. He finally calmed down I just held him for about an hour and half while holding the tooth in place. After that he sat up and the tooth fell right back up. So yeah, torturing him trying to put the tooth back in and completely ruining is Christmas Eve had been a complete waste. I felt really bad. So the rest of the night was spent holding him and trying to calm him down because his mouth hurt so much. Poor kid. He was up all night. Ben and I took turns getting things ready for Christmas morning, and then both laid by him until the other kids got up to see what Santa had brought them.
Since James had gotten no sleep that night he was not a very happy kid. Which was sad because this was the first year that we had actually gotten him some pretty cool things. Yeah they got a lot for christmas....oh well. He had been asking all month for a "toy bugarage" and that is what he got, he was excited about that, but mostly he was excited about the big present waiting for him at Grandma Morrise's house...a toy kitchen. It really was from Ben and I but we split up the presents between the two houses. And yes, he really liked that. He enjoyed his presents somewhat, but he was pretty grumpy the entire day, and finally at 7 pm Christmas night he slept...and slept....and slept..until 9 am the next morning. That is when he finally started to enjoy his toys. Harrison liked Christmas though. Santa brought him 8 balls, and that is all he played with the entire day, and the following week as well. We couldn't even get him to open any of his presents because he just wanted to play with the balls. I was glad he enjoyed them so well.
Ben got me some great gifts..some jewelry...which I love. Tons of running gear...which I really love....and the book Twilight. Obviously I liked that as well seeing as how I have spent the last five days reading all her books. My favorite gift was a watch type thing made by Garmin that is for runners and is a personal GPS. It is great. It tracks everything I do when I run, I love it. It keeps track of my pace, my distance, keeps a map of where I have been....all that jazz. It is great. Oh and Marshall gave me these running pants that I have been dying to get..and yes they are amazing, I love them. I feel like a super hero in them though. Maybe that makes me run faster....we will see.
I got ben and the boys light sabers, I will admit I did not think that Ben would enjoy his so much as the boys...but he likes it even more than the boys do. It is fun to see them play together. I don't really remember what else I got him...probably clothes or something boring like that. Anyways, after things settled down a little bit from the Christmas craze we had a really nice break. We took the kids to the Discovery Museum at Gateway, they LOVED that. I ran from our house in Lehi to my parents in Provo..14.2 miles..in the snow..thank you very much. We took the kids sledding, James really loved that. He would laugh the entire way down. we watched way too many movies...a lot of thomas movies, James liked that as well. We ate and ate and ate and ate..Harrison loved that. New Years was fun. We spent several hours at both parents homes. We just let the kids play and do whatever and eat whatever because hey, it was a party and let me tell you what. They both liked that a lot. However, Harrison can only stay up so late and so went to bed around 10 pm, when we took him home at 1:30 am he woke up, and I really don't know when he fell back asleep. I just know I got up at 4 am and he was still singing to himself in his bed. Wow. I am trying to think of what else we did this break. I think we pretty much spent the rest of our time goofing off with family and letting the kids play with their cousins, which was great fun for them as well. So yeah, James lost a tooth, Ben broke his arm (okay that was before xmas, but just before) but we did a lot of fun things to make up for all that. And when you are surrounded by boys, what do you think is going to happen? Injuries are always involved.