Monday, December 10, 2007

What's Wrong with this Picture?

So my Dear Husband wanted to help me get the Christmas cards ready for delivery last night. I was folding up the letter to put in the cards so he said he'd put on the return labels. After he did that he said that he'd put stamps on too. I didn't have stamps so we didn't get that far but after looking at these envelopes today it makes me wonder where would we put the stamps?!
So now what do I do put the stamp right over the return label or take them all off?!

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Temple Square and the Lights

We went to see the lights on Thursday with my family. We ate dinner at Crown Burger and then walked around Temple Square. It was really fun to see all those lights and it was not crowded at all! Probably this was the best year so far.



Eli LOVES his cousins so much. He could be heard saying "come on, Cousins." or "wait for me Cousins."





Eli hitched a ride with my Grandma.



He's just so cute! When we took him to the top of the JSMB he said "OH WOW!"







By the Big Red Tree.

Our 75.00 ER Visit

So we had a scare with Eli last night! Eli couldn't sleep last night so he got out of bed and got and apple to eat. We were all just sitting around talking when I saw Eli scratch his leg. Last week I took him to the Dr. because he has eczema all over his legs. I hadn't put the lotion on his legs that night so I took him in the bathroom and pulled down his jammie bottoms. What I saw was this huge, hot spot that looked like it had blisters on it! I called for Stewart to come in and look and when Eli saw it he started crying. It was SO bad. It looked like a sunburn that started to blister and right before our eyes it started to spread! I called the "ask a nurse line" which was no help at all and the instacares were closed so we rushed him over to LDS hospital once the rash got on his neck.

To make a long story short (too late) Eli had an allergic reaction to something and they were atypical hives. The Dr. said that children with eczema are at risk for allergies. So I think that with Eli having a cold and eczema he had a reaction to the apple that I didn't wash.

On a positive note Eli was a hit at the Hospital. Everyone thought that he was so cute and funny. People stopped to say "Hi" to him and were just laughing at the things that he was doing. He was naked with just his underpants on so I called him "Captain Underpants" and he started laughing and laughing. The couple in the next room were laughing at him laughing. Eli was really glad that they let him keep the "bracelet" and was pretty worried that they would take it off before we left.

Monday, December 3, 2007

Something looks suspicious---EDITED

Well I'm pretty sure it's not the 8th of December but Eli's advent calender suspiciously has 8 doors open. I wonder how this could have happened?!

***Yes there was an incident involving a snowball with this calander you can read about it here. I fixed the calander so the chocolate would stay in. Eli came and told me that he was going to eat the chocolate. I told him he shouldn't but he said that "I'll make the decision." Which means "I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do!"

SNOWY SATURDAY

We had SUCH a fun Saturday. We woke up to a snowy morning and got all decked out in our snow clothes. Here is Eli ready for action. We were going to make a snowman but it wasn't good snowman snow.
Instead we went sledding at Sugarhouse park. It was pretty fun except Eli got a little nervous. The first picture below is Stewart pulling Eli up the hill and the 2nd is of them coming down. They totally crashed! It was funny. The best part for Stewart was that he got to put the truck in 4-wheel drive! :)

After the sledding we went to the Sorensen Christmas party and ate and had a pretty good time. Then that night we went to our ward Christmas party. Guess who came? SANTA! Eli was SO excited and couldn't wait to tell him that he wants a skateboard. After talking to Santa, Eli said that he forgot to say HO, HO, HO.

Next we danced the night away. Stewart and I wowed everyone with our (meaning his) swing dancing skills. Luckily I can just kinda let Stewart do the work and I get spun and dipped and basically have no idea what's going on. It's when I try to dance that we get into trouble.

Eli also showcased his dancing skills. He ran around like crazy and had a great time. It was probably the funnest ward party I've been to.

And for good measure, and at Stacy's request, here is our FAVORITE picture of Eli with Santa. This is one of our Christmas decorations. It's so classic.