wow, talk about catch-up!

ok, so it's been awhile, and i'm way behind on everything. a newborn and moving and then christmas: gee i wonder why nothing is getting done? it doesn't help that we are mooching internet from one of the doctors offices nearby, like next door.

so i took shannon in to get tested for acid reflux, and she didn't even dribble. the one day that i needed her to spit up and she doesn't. if she continues in the same way that she has been, i'm going to have the doctor treat it and see if she does any better.

we finally got the tree up 3 days before christmas. with the move there was no room, and the tree was buried on the porch (it's a fake tree that we store in a large tote.) the tree went up on monday and didn't get decorated until tuesday. but at least it was up.

we had the sister missionaries over for christmas breakfast this year. for those of you not familiar with the tradition, my family invites the missionaries for christmas breakfast. we have a big breakfast; eggs, bacon, sausage, danish, hashbrowns, fruit; then we open presents with them. it's nothing big, and the gifts are ususally gag gifts. well, the sisters stopped by one day when they noticed that someone had moved in, and we invited them to join us. it was a blast.
one of the gifts i got them was a growing husband. it's about an inch tall, and you put it in water and it grows. shaun was worried they would be upset about it, but they thought it was hilarious, btw-so did i.

shaun had to work today so i had the kids by myself at church. it was fine until we were getting ready to go home and elizabeth wet her pants. it's a good thing i keep an extra pair in their backpacks. i left them in the mothers lounge while i went to get the car. it had a fine layer of ice on it.

it's snowed every day for the last 2 weeks. there's so much snow on the sides of the roads that you can't see the traffic coming from uphill. we got 8-10 inches on christmas day alone. we were just getting ready to leave for church this morning when we noticed that we'd been plowed in. it took us a half-hour to dig out; of course, we were late. not only that, but it rained today instead of snowing.