MERRY CHRISTMAS!

We had a great Christmas! I hope everyone else did too!
We went to a gingerbread party:


Pinky had her Christmas program at school:


It SNOWED!! And by 'snow' I mean a blizzard!!!!:



We spent Christmas Christmas Eve with Erics parents, we had a great dinner:


Then Grammie played holiday songs on the piano:


Gramps read the Nativity story and the kids acted it out:



Christmas morning was a blast as always!



Then we had dinner at my moms house:


Where the kids got more stuff. Elle got roller skates!


HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Cavity woes!

So, I had my six month dental check up recently and had to fill a few cavaties. Bummer.
I've had cavaties filled before... no big deal right? Well, it had been several years and apparently in my old age (HA!), my teeth are getting harder to numb.

I went in for one appt. last week and they did one side of my mouth, some on the top, one on the bottom. The top was fine, it numbed right up. But my bottom teeth just weren't getting numbed. The dentist did more shots... still nothing. She finally did a third shot (and when I say 'shot' I mean she jabbed my jaw multiple times and multiple places, OUCH!). Finally everything was good and numb. When she started drilling though, I instanlty flinched because it I could still feel it! My face was so numb though, it was going up to my eye sockets, so I just told her to go ahead and do it! It hurt! I got through it by deep breathing. After all the numbing wore off I was SO dang sore from all the shots in my jaw bone.

Fast forward to yesterday... I had the OTHER side of my mouth done! I only had one cavity on this side, but it was on the bottom, so I was scared! I kept rescheduling because I was afraid. I finally went in yesterday. And it was worse then it was the first time.
She tried the normal shots... nothing. she tried two more times. And the third time she was super aggresive and jabbed me ALL over in the back, she even stuck my in the roof my my mouth (??? not sure why). Anyway. I was numb again ALL over my face, but not my teeth!
I told her once again, to just go ahead and just get it over with.
This hurt WAY worse then the last one! It felt like lightening had struck my skull. I was flinching and jumping though the whole thing. I instantly got hot and flushed, my face went bright red. Those clear goggles they gave me to wear fogged up because of the heat coming from my face. I was doing okay (despite flinching the entire time in pain...) until she stopped for a min to ask if I was okay. Then I started to CRY! Not total sobbing, but my eyes filled with tears and I was obviously crying. HOW ENBARRASING! I couldnt stop. I told her to hurry and finish. She tried to tell me that while the cavity doesn't touch the nerve, it's very close and the nerve was inflamed. Super.

So, not only was the entire left side of my face 100% numb but I could ALSO feel every single thing she was doing. It was the worst dental visit I've ever had in my life. And after the numbness wore off, I again am in agony from all the shots she gave me all over my jaw bone and I can feel the one she did on the roof of my mouth..

I'f you'll excuse me, I'm off to floss and brush for the 4th time today... I'm never getting another cavity. Ever.

It's been a while!

Here are some noteworthy happening in the past few weeks...
Thanksgiving was super fun. We went out to eat! I vote we do it again next year! We each had like 10 plates of food, and didn't have to clean any of it!


We traditionaly set up the tree on Thanksgiving night.


So, here's a great story. The other day I was driving home with Elle and we passed a crippled homeless woman begging on the street corner for money. I see her around occasionally. Elle felt so bad for her because this woman was crippled... she wanted to give the woman money, she said she couldn't stop thinking about that lady. I told her that giving a begger a couple of bucks wont help them. And if she really wanted to help, it would be better to actually give the lady things she needs. Well, Elle took that to heart. She came home and began making a bag of stuff for this lady. She had hot pink wrapping, and she wrapped up a bunch of food (hot chocolate packets, crackers, tuna packets, noodle bowls, popcorn, etc...) in this pink paper, then we put the 'presents' in a big bag. Elle asked me to drive her back to the woman. How could I say no????
She sat in the back seat with her bag of stuff, and she rolled down her window and called the lady over to us. She stuck her head out the window and said "I thought you could use a treat". The woman almost started crying! She was go grateful. Afterwards, Elle told me she felt good now. Here's Elle with her bag o' goodies. (Thats her best friend next to her)


It also started snowing two days ago! The kids played out in it almost all day!
After the kids and some friends finished making a snowman, Eric handed them a can of spray paint to make hair on it, as you can see from the bright orange!


We also have been going hiking still most weekends. Look at the difference from just two weekends ago to this past weekend!



Hiking in the snow is fun! Except it was freezing! Eric walked across a creek... and Elle followed! Man, Elle got wet up to her knees. We headed back to the car after that, HA!