November/December update

And I am finally caught up....sort of.

We spent the first part of Nov. celebrating birthdays. My mom, my brother, my grandma, Weston's dad and his great aunt all have birthdays in November. The only one that I took any pictures at was Weston's great aunt. We all got together in Las Vegas to celebrate her 90th birthday. Happy Birthday Aunt Mavis!

On the 7th of November, my little brother returned home from Hawaii where he served a two year mission for our church. On the 9th we had his homecoming. I don't have pictures, of course. Thanksgiving followed at once again, I forgot the camera. It was nice, we went to Richfield to be with Weston's family. I think that after this things calmed down for a second and then with the beginning of December it started to really pick up again.

Some of you may remember that Macey was born with a large mole on the top of her head. At the recommendation of a Dermatologist, we decided to go ahead and have the mole removed along with a smaller one on the back of her head. It was an out patient surgery, but boy was it an ordeal. For those of you who have really weak stomachs, you will want to not look at the next pictures.

This is our cute Macey before the surgery and at the beginning of our 3 hr wait before they took her back.

And this is what our sweet Macey looked like when they brought her back to us. She had a really hard time coming out of the anesthesia and just cried and cried. It broke my heart. And then to see the cuts that were made, I thought that we had made a mistake.

This last picture is the first day that we

were able to wash her hair and you can really get an idea of how big her incisions were.

December was a busy month for Hadley, she learned how to sit up, stand in her dads hand and she weighed in at a whopping 16 1/2 lbs. She has got the biggest thighs that I have ever seen on a 5 mth old. But we love every little roll.

The rest of December held the usual festivities, My birthday (31), family Christmas parties and visits to Santa Claus. Sydney didn't have a problem with sitting on Santa's lap, but Macey would have nothing to do with it. And then there is Christmas of course. My brother and his family stayed with us and the little girls had a blast for the most part.

Waiting to see if Santa really made it.

And they weren't disappointed. (This is not all for the girls. :) )