Christmas Time Is Here!

I can't help myself. These girls are too cute. Matching Christmas outfits. I am in Heaven! 

I love these babies. I can't wait for the Christmas festivities! We are going to have so much fun! 

Finals Week Adventures

As soon as we got back from Thanksgiving Kyle started his finals. It was a really long week. It didn't start out so bad. Kyle was gone a lot but me and the girls had a lot of fun. But it ended pretty miserable. 

Abby started to come down with a cold and a fever. She was pretty sick, and then all of the sudden Thursday night she got really bad. Kyle had his last final on Friday. So Friday morning I took her into the doctor. They were really worried about her breathing. And her throat looked really red and sore. They tested her for Strep and it came back positive. And the doctor thought that she might be getting pneumonia in her lungs. I just thought she had a cold, so it got really scary fast. They have her a breathing treatment and then a breathing machine for me to take home. 

That day she was so sick, and even with the breathing treatments she was getting worse. By the time Kyle got home that night I was starting to get really worried. She started coughing so hard she was throwing up. She was totally pale and lethargic. She was having serious trouble breathing, her little lips were even blue. It was so scary. So we rushed her into the Children's hospital. They got us right back and immediately gave her a breathing treatment that was really intense. And they gave her a steroid. 

Luckily the breathing treatment really helped her. At first they didn't think it was going to, and the doctor said they might have to move her to the ICU for even more treatments. That made me so nervous. Luckily we didn't need it, they kept us in the ER over night. My dear friend Kaity came and got Jules from us as soon as we found out we were going to be there for a long time. She took her home and put her to bed, and then cleaned my entire house. I love her so much. 

I stayed with Abby and Kyle went home to take care of Jules. Other than the nurses coming in to check on us every hour it wasn't too bad. They even had Iron Man 3 that I could watch when I couldn't sleep. That was awesome. 

Luckily only a few days later Abby was feeling much better so we decided to head down to Arizona almost a week early. It was so cold in Denver and we needed to get out of the house. But before we could leave we had to make our ginger bread house and hand out our treats. Abby loved doing the gingerbread house this year. She put tons of the candies on. It was so fun to have her do it with us. I look forward to all of these traditions next year. Its only going to get more and more fun.

This was during finals week before Abby got sick. They had so much fun reading together. They play so incredibly cute together. I just love it.

When it started to snow and got really cold we had a fun day watching Christmas movies and building our tent. I love days like this with my girls!

With all of the craziness of finals week I was so grateful we survived. Kyle rocked all of his finals and is so relieved to be done with the first semester of 2nd year! We're half way through the hardest year!!!

Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving was really special. All of my mom's family came to Colorado and we stayed in this ridiculously nice cabin in Breckenridge. It was so incredible beautiful and there was plenty of space for everyone. We had a great time eating, talking, baking, eating, snowboarding, playing ping pong, eating, sleeping and playing foosball. 

The first night that we were there we had Juliet in a pack n play in our room and Abby in a pack n play in the closet right across from our room. About 12 Abby woke up crying so I brought her in bed with me. She was being so noisy and she woke up Juliet. As Juliet is waking up Abby says "Shh Juliet I sleeping!" She was doing everything except for sleeping. So we put Abby back in her bed and then tried to get Juliet to go back to sleep. I got so tired waiting for Jules to go back to sleep that we grabbed some extra pillows and blankets and laid down in the hallway right next to our nice beds. Just as Juliet had gone back to sleep and we were getting ready to go back to bed, Abby woke up again. We couldn't take her back in the same room as Juliet again. So the three of us slept in the hallway on the floor. It was really funny. Luckily we figured it out and everyone slept much better the rest of the week. 

The day after Thanksgiving we were able to go snowboarding. My aunts and grandma were nice enough to watch Juliet and Abby so that we could go. It was a blast! We went to the Loveland ski resort and it was beautiful. The snow was actually really awesome, we were worried since it was so early in the season. I only fell once and it was on the bunny hill go figure. It was so fun to be there with all of my family and Kyle.

On Thanksgiving day we had our Christmas gift exchange so all of the cousins could see each other open their gifts. My mom got Juliet a little baby doll. Juliet's reaction to that doll was one the highlights of the trip. She was in love. She kept kissing it and hugging it. She would rock it and pack its back. Everyone just cracking up over her. It was the sweetest thing. She will be a good big sister...someday.

It was the perfect trip. Abby had so much fun with all of the kids. We were all so sad when it was over.