It’s hard to believe its another year gone by already. Things have been really busy the past few months for me, especially with the new addition to our family. Hannah is now two months old and is doing good. We found out she had Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) a month after she was born. She was put on some breathing treatments for a couple weeks and has since been doing much better. I’m just glad we didn’t have to put her in the hospital as they normally do with children under 6 months.
For Thanksgiving, we had lunch with my wife’s side of the family and dinner with my side of the family like we do every year. This year though my Uncle and Grandmother attended as they lost there home during Hurrican Katrina and were already staying with my parents. It was nice and I’m glad we are getting to see more of them. The kids really enjoy their company and having all the family around is great for them. Both sides had the usual dishes to eat and I liked both but as always I enjoyed my mother’s more.
For Christmas, the children and us opened presents in the morning at our house and it was really nice. Hopefully we will be able to start our own traditions as the children get older and are able to participate more in the holiday. Afterwards, we did Christmas gifts and lunch at my side of the family’s house. Then, we did something different this year and had my wife’s parents over to our house for gifts and dinner, whereas we normally go to their house for lunch or dinner. The ham was so good that her mom had done. Definetly the best ham I have ever had so far in my life. Overall, both meals, we’re really good but to be honest I didn’t really enjoy either of them that much. The turkey and ham were not that good at my parent’s house and the side choices for dinner at my house were just “yucky”. Next year we shall have to plan the meal better if we cook at our house again. The gifts were all appreciated and everyone liked what they given. My wife received a mother’s ring she had really been wanting and was overwhelmed enough to cry (Bethany kept asking her what was wrong and made her start laughing because of it). The children received several different gifts but Bethany’s big gift was a Cinderella castle and Emma’s was a rocking chair as she just loves to rock and act all adult-like. It was truly a memorable Christmas and I took plenty of pictures that will be posted in the Album soon.
For New Year’s Eve, we didn’t do much other than have my parents, uncle, and grandmother over for some sparkling grapejuice (as I don’t drink alcohol and its kind of a tradition me and the wife do), wine, and Oreo and Key Lime pie. We allowed Bethany to stay up for this, but Emma just was getting too tired to stay up for the countdown.
During this time, I have been working 16 hour shifts at work for overtime, but luckily none of it really interfered with the holidays other than Christmas Eve as I had to work til nearly midnight. It is definetly a mistake I will avoid in the future. All in all, it has been a great two months to go out of the year on. I’ll be working on the site some more and hopefully will have all of the pictures for 2005 uploaded into the Album for family members to look over. So be sure to check back soon.
- CyberManX
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