Christmas..Christmas..Christmas..

It's that time of year and man have we been busy, so I will start and try to recap the past couple of weeks, since it's been that long since I've blogged (SORRY!)

The first week of December I had to go to Raleigh for a conference for work. It was Wednesday-Friday, so I was super sad about leaving my boys!! But I had to so I did. Wednesday night actually went by so quick cause I worked on my Christmas cards, so I did actually a whole lot better than I thought I would. Thursday night, David came and brought Tyler to Raleigh. So it was fun having them there and letting them meet all the guys I work with, because that night we had a social/charity event that was really fun. Let me just say, the night before I left we realize that the heater went out... David stayed up till 3 am working on it only to find out that it was the whole unit and probably needed to be replaced. So I left David for the week, with no heat, a 2 1/2 month old, and in the middle of finals, with NO sleep.. I felt horrible, but there was nothing I could have done. But I must say, David is an amazing husband and daddy!!! We love you and thank you for taking care of us!! God is so good and I knew this time would be no different, but we had a elder from church randomly come over and he "fixed" it for now. He said it should work for now until we can save the $5,000 for a new one! What a blessing because David and I were beginning to freak out about how we were going to come up with the money for a new one on the spot. Also the same day, David got an anonymous message saying the parts for his car (that had been broken) were payed for and being shipped to our house. I'm telling you, that day made me cry and made me realize how wonderfully blessed we truly are!!

Okay, sorry I just had to post that!

Now on to that weekend. We had the church Christmas/Variety show party. It was fun as always, great food and fun fellowship. David along with Brian and 2 guys from the youth group put a band together (this year and last) and perform songs. They are awesome, I must say. But this year was a special treat because Sarah, his little sister also sang with them. It really did sound so good, I only wished I had videoed it, but it was hard enough getting "santa" out of the house. Yes, Tyler was decked out in his Santa attire from Nana. It was so stinkin cute! He definitely was the life of the party.

Then last week started out good, same ol same ol. Tyler turned 3 months on Thursday!! I can't believe how time flys. He seriously is starting to look more and more like a little boy and it makes me sad. I mean thankful that he's growing, but man he's not so little anymore. Also, on Thursday I woke up with a TERRIBLE case of mastitis again, YES ROUND FIVE!!! This time was so much worse. I was miserable and couldn't hardly pull myself off the couch. Thankfully Sarah was there to keep Tyler because David was working on a paper due at 5 that day and he had stayed up literally all night at church working on it. I did get some antibiotics, but I decided that day, I made it to 12 weeks, and I couldn't do this any longer, so now Tyler is officially a formula fed baby!! I struggled with this for a while because I really wanted to do it as long as I could, but my body told me 12 weeks is all you can do, and I now feel pretty good about it. I know he got what he "needed" and it will be better for all of us. Let me tell you, I feel like a new woman. I didn't realize how much it was sucking the life out of me because now I'm more energized than ever, and feel so much more like myself, so I know I can be a better mom. So yay! We did it with the help of cabbage leaves!!! I'm convinced! :)

So on to this past weekend. We had the youth group party on Friday night. Man I wish I had taken pics, but I didn't. We had a great pot luck and then filled stockings full of goodies for all the people over 60 in our church. So we made 60 stockings (30 singles and 30 couples). We mixed up spiced tea, dipped chocolate pretzels, had candy canes, cookies, and other little things to fill each stocking. It was really neat and a great idea by David, he is always so thoughtful. Then after that everyone went on a city treasure hunt. David made this awesome hunt with clues from places that Winston is known for. It was so cool and everyone seemed to have a great time. So after it was all said and done we headed to the house around 10:30.

The next morning I went to Vicki's around 10:00 to make peanut butter balls. We always make these in my family and it's too much work to do alone, so we teamed up. We had a really good time and the boys worked on David's car to get it up and running. They made great progress, but didn't quite finish it, yet. Finally we finished all the fun around 6:30. We were suppose to go to the CYP Christmas party, but I just couldn' t make it. I was in my sweats and really just needed to chill and rest from the weekend. So we went to the Trinhs and chilled there since we hadn't been able to hang out with them for a while.

Sunday up for church then piddled around the house, while Tyler took a 3 hour nap (which he did the day before too) then back to church at 4 for the Women's Ministry Fair, David took all the 2nd-5th graders caroling, and then the teens/scouts had a devo and then we wrapped presents for a family they are sponsoring for Christmas. It was a great day, but boy by the end, Tyler was exhausted and so were we!!

Can't wait to see with this week holds... I'm sure lots of fun! :) Here are a few pictures I just randomly took. I had to share them! :) Tyler loves Christmas already!!