Christmas Day 2008

We were supposed to go to South Dakota for Christmas this year, but Travis started having stomach pains and we thought he might have appendicitis...he had some blood work done last Saturday and he had a bad infection. They gave him some strong antibiotics and he felt a little bit better, but the Dr. thought we should still have a CT Scan...so we did that on Tuesday morning(we were supposed to leave for South Dakota that morning). After that, we decided that we should go and talk to the Dr and let her know our plans so that they could try to get the results from the CT Scan so we would know if we should stay home or if we should go. We got a call from the Dr about 3:00 in the afternoon and she told us that it wasn't appendicitis but we should stay home in case something were to happen we could be near good medical care. So we were not able to leave. He was also put on a liquid only diet until his pain was better. He is feeling somewhat better now, better than he was last week! So that is a good sign. He had some more blood drawn yesterday to check his white cell count and it was a lot better. We have another CT Scan scheduled for him on Tuesday so we will see how that comes out! I am just glad that it isn't anything to serious!

Last night, the girls and I went to my parents home and had our traditional pizza and open up our jammies on Christmas Eve. Grandpa and Grandma took Jaylee, Jace & Bekka to see the lights and then they brought Bekka home at about 9:00. She finally went to bed about 10:30 so that Santa could come!

We were up at 7:30, by the time Travis got up and came downstairs it was about 8:00. We opened all of our gifts and then I went upstairs to prepare the meat and cut up veggies for our Omelet tradition (we have omelets every year on Christmas morning). My Mom and Dad came over at about 11:00 and brought gifts for all of us. We ate, hung out for awhile and then they went home. Travis wasn't feeling well this morning, he had a lot of stomach pain, so he fell asleep downstairs about a half hour before my parents came. I think it was probably nearly 2:00 when he finally woke up and came upstairs and hung out with us....he was feeling a bit better. Travis and the girls got me a diamond pendant that has 5 stones, each of the girls birthstones in it and then there are 2 diamonds so that if we were to have any more children, I can have their birthstones added to it! It is quite pretty!



We hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas!

Merry Christmas to All and to All a Goodnight! :)