After Christmas

The Sunday after Christmas my parents brought Winnie, Jasper and Jude to their house so the cousins could spend some Christmas together.  They came to our house Monday and they all had a blast playing outside together!  Jude loved riding CeCe's electric scooter and Winnie and Jasper loved riding in Dylan's new dune buggy.  They played outside for hours that day.  

There were also many games played (at our house and Cappy and Papaw's)

 Lady and Luke back together again....The lady that rescued these two found them together.  She is my mom's aerobic instructor and knew my parents were looking for a small dog.  I went with my parents to her house to meet Lady back in October.  Luke had a broken pelvis and was in rehab at her house.  I met him that day and fell in love with him.  I didn't give much thought to us getting another dog but after his rehab was complete she sent me a picture and I fell in love all over again.  We got him for a 'sleepover ' and never took him home-- we all decided we had to have him!!  Lady and Luke have a blast playing tougher and will snuggle like this.  It's so sweet!  Luke and Reagan play together great too, there hasn't been much snuggling though (only a time or two have I seen them this close)

 Poor Reagan....we made it 11.5 years with her without having to put her in a cone, until this weekend!  She injured her paw Wednesday night on a walk and wouldn't stop licking it.  Saturday she was limping so bad she couldn't go outside and the paw was swollen.  We took her to the vet ER (our vet was closed of course!) and they gave us some ointment and said we had to put her in this collar until it gets better.  She's doing fantastic with it.  Definitely getting frustrated but I thought she would be much more agitated with it.  

 I was sitting on the front porch yesterday and saw this inside the door.  We bought the fabric/canvas cone so it would be easier to sleep in, it just covers her face when she lays down!  She's already doing better tonight (Sunday night) so hopefully she won't need the cone for much longer.  

Christmas!

We had a wonderful Christmas this year!  Being in Memphis makes the holidays much easier.  This year my sister decided they would stay at home so we changed things up even more by hosting Christmas Eve and Christmas morning at our house (for us and my parents).  We've always done those at my parent's house and we missed having everyone together but it was fun doing it at our house (and much easier--no packing up gifts!) Cappy and Papaw Ruff arrived Christmas Eve in time for 3:30 church.   

We came home and had a nice dinner and let the kids open one gift (we gave them each a Kindle kids edition).  They were in bed by 9 that night excited about the next morning!  

Christmas morning was great!  I didn't get many pictures for some reason, I guess I was relaxing and enjoying too!  They each got what they asked Santa for (we go small here!)  Bryce got Madden 16 for the Xbox and a Michael Jackson CD and CeCe got an American Girl dog, leash and dog bed.  Seriously our Santa piles were so small I didn't even take a picture!  Bryce is wearing his hospital gown in these pictures.  This was one week after he broke his collar bone and was still in a decent bit of pain and putting on shirts over his head was impossible so we just kept washing the gown and he'd wear it every night!  

Our last gift we let them open started a scavenger hunt that took them all over the house 

And then they filled in this puzzle using the backs of the clues

 It was SO MUCH FUN!!!  

After we had a delicious late breakfast of waffles, bacon and mimosas we packed up and drove to West Point to see Kiki and Papaw Duke.  Kiki made a delicious taco soup for dinner that night and they let the kids open the gifts from them.  Bryce got 3 more xbox games and CeCe got this electric scooter.  

 She was nervous at first (it goes 10 mph!) but quickly got comfortable and started loving it! 

 The adults have had fun on it too!!  

I didn't get a single picture the next day when the whole family was together.  We had a great lunch and an even better time visiting with everyone!  

Before Christmas

The weekend before Christmas Bryce's baseball team had their Christmas party.  It was fun until the last 5 minutes.  All the boys were playing tag (in the dark) and Bryce tripped and landed on his shoulder on a rock.  He was in so much pain I knew he needed to go to the ER (it was 9pm so Urgent Care was closed of course).  When we first got to the ER they thought it was dislocated so they started an IV so he could be somewhat sedated while they popped it back in.  The X-ray showed it was a fractured collar bone instead of a dislocated shoulder.  This is a good thing!  Breaks heal better.  He was in a ton of pain the first few days but is much better now.  He still wears his sling most of the time but can move his arm a little now.  

 Poor thing was so upset about this happening on the first night of Christmas Break!  

We got a new dog!!!  Meet Luke Duke :)  He's a 3 year old rescue that was found with the dog my parents got a few months ago. He was in rehab for a broken pelvis so we got him mid December and fell in love right away!  

 He was a good couch buddy for Bryce when he was hurting too bad to do much else.  

Sunday before Christmas Aunt Sandra came for a visit!  We weren't able to get to Montgomery this Christmas so she was sweet enough to drive to us!  

 She showered the kids with gifts like always!  

 Monday we went downtown to the Peabody and for lunch at Hueys.  

We had a great visit with Aunt Sandra!!

The week before Christmas was very rainy.  Luckily I had bought a pre-assembled gingerbread house months ago and found it one of the rainy days! The kids both enjoyed decorating. This was our best house yet!