Laugh, Love, Live: Christmas 2009

So here it came and went and excitement all around! All in all it was a great Christmas. My younger brother Andrew got home from the Phoenix, AZ a little early this year due to the way transfers worked out so it was really nice to have him home this year. My brother Steve and his wife Jill got leave and were able to be here and my Grandpa was able to make it due to no restricting weather conditions. Christmas Eve we started out with our own first little Christmas at home with Lucas opening his presents from Mommy and Daddy. Then, we went to my parents house for our fondue party. It was all magnificent as always with my Mothers amazing cooking and great family fun.

Christmas morning was good with our strawberry waffles with whip cream and ham on the side. Everyone had a blast goofing off and opening presents. Jeff and I always talk each year about not spending too much money and sticking to only getting a gift for the person who's name we drew, but it's way too hard for us to do that so we end up getting gifts for everyone anyways but luckily we are good at finding awesome deals so we kept the cost down. Christmas was great and would have ended with us spending dinner and the evening with Jeff's side of the family but we ended up spending the evening gulping down dinner and rushing to take Lucas to the urgent care at his pediatricians office. Lucas had been sick starting Christmas Eve night and progressively got worse Christmas day. His breathing got worse and bad enough we took him in and they had to put him on Oxygen. They gave him a shot of steroids and antibiotics. He's still on the the oral antibiotics which always do a number to his system but he's doing much better. Besides being sick he enjoyed his first "real Christmas." He was only a month old last year so it doesn't really count.....all in all it was enjoyable.