Holiday Treats

    I love making treats for people, so when Connor was given the opportunity to take a treat to his class Christmas party, I was all about it. While searching through Pinterest, I saw some cute recipes for snowman soup, which I had never heard of. I loved the concept, so I made 10 bags for the kids in our family and for our friends kids that will be spending some time with us over the holidays.

Connor's Visit to the ER

    So because I like to document everything {because one day I am going to print these out into books for the kids} I need to write about our Saturday spent in the ER. Connor had been running a fever on and off for the last couple of days. On Thursday evening he complained that his neck was hurting. I mentioned to Aaron that a sore neck is a sign of meningitis, but we thought we would see how he was feeling the next morning. The next morning he was back to his old self, until around 3pm he started running another fever. I medicated him the rest of the day/evening. Around 4am on Saturday morning I noticed he still felt warm, so I gave him some more Ibuprofen. When he woke up he was acting normal. We had errands to run and stopped to eat lunch between one of our stops when Connor started shivering. It was cold in the food court, but not cold enough to cause shivers. Then he started complaining that he was tired and his head hurt. I started looking him over and noticed he had a rash on his chest. That's when the red flag came to my mind: meningitis. I told Aaron we needed to take him to the ER to be seen. 

Switching Olivia To Cloth Diapers

    Today was Olivia's first day in cloth diapers, and it was a success. I had been delaying using them because I dreaded the prep phase, but we were finally running low on our fourth box of diapers and realized it was time. I am so glad I finally started using them on her because she looked so darn cute in them.

Family Pictures

      Family pictures are a must for me every year at this time. We need them for our Christmas cards, and the weather is usually nice. This was the first year we didn't include our dogs, and it was the first year we took them ourselves {thank you tripod and bluetooth on the camera to make my phone the remote}. We took them on November 7, right before Aaron left. We thought they were hard with one kid, but then we added another and getting the perfect shot was hard. I could have kept going, but you can see in the last picture that Connor was over it.  

Lately

    Aaron has been gone for a month and we have missed him so much. Thankfully he comes home later today and we are so excited. We have been keeping pretty busy over here between school and traveling over Thanksgiving break. I haven't posted any blogs lately from our day to day life, so I thought this would be a good one to catch up on. I also don't want to forget any of these moments with my babies because gosh, they grow so fast!

November 8, 2017:

Aaron was packing to leave the next day and Connor was really sad.