Happy Birthday.

Today is Dev's little brother Dane's Birthday. Dane is so fun, and always always has a smile on his face. He is so good with our boys and they love him so much. Thanks Dane for being such an awesome uncle. We love you and hope you have a great birthday. Wish we could be there with you!

Deagan's Visit to see Dr. Bob

On Monday we took Deagan to the dentist to get his teeth fixed. He did awesome. He only had a hard time drinking the "special" juice.... we had to force it down. He calmed down after that. We got to go into our own little room and watch a movie while we waited for the juice to start kicking in. It didn't take long... he was out of it in about five minutes. Then, they came to get him and offered to take him on wagon ride. He wasn't having it... he wanted to pull the wagon himself. That is so Deagan. So, being the nice girls they were they let him pull the wagon... and since he couldn't even walk straight they carried him along while he did it. Haha. It was kind of funny, but Deagan was happy. They took him back into the lab, and Dev and I had to stay behind. I was nervous, but I knew he was in good hands. The procedure took a little over an hour, not bad at all. They brought him out and told us he was pretty entertaining. Yep, that's our Deagan. Who knows what he was doing back there... he was out of it for the rest of the day, and spent most of it sleeping. We are so proud of him, he got quite a bit of work done and he did so awesome. He doesn't remember much, just something they put on his toes and some bleach stuff that kinda made his teeth feel funny... haha. Here he is with his new teeth!

He is most proud of these ones... He calls them his silvers!

And they fixed his two top front ones, now they're both shiny and white....

Good smile before, now it's even better!

Deagan loves his new teeth and tries to get a look at them any chance he gets, he is always in the mirror checkin em out. It is funny. I am so glad that he had a good experience. I was worried that he wouldn't and our visits would be ruined from now on. I am so thankful that everything went smoothly... at one point they came out and told us that they may have to pull one his front ones because they thought the root was fractured... I am SO happy they didn't have to though. All I can say now is thank goodness for dental insurance!!!

The Elf on the Shelf

We started a new tradition tonight. Have any of you ever heard of this? It is called The Elf on the Shelf. It is so cute. I had Dev put a box on our doorstep with this book and little elf inside... then I let Deagan answer the door. I had been telling him all day that we were going to be having a little visitor tonight, so he was so excited to see who it was... He ran in with the book screaming and we all sat together and read it.

You get the book and the Elf, you name the Elf. Ours is named Tiny. Deagan picked it out, good name for him. You read the story. Basically it says this...

Santa Claus has sent this Elf to watch over you and make sure you are being good. Every night while you are sleeping he flies back to the North Pole to report to Santa if you were good or bad. He flies back before you wake up the next day. So, every night while the boys are asleep we have to move the elf to a new place to make it seem like he had flown to the North Pole and back...

Deagan loves it, he is so excited to go find "Tiny" in the morning... and I am hoping I can use this to my advantage... any time he is being naughty I can just remind him "Tiny" is watching :) We will see how it works... Tiny may have to stay out all year! I am so excited to have this new tradition and I hope it stays in our family for years to come. I love this time of year. We put our tree up on Sunday and all our decorations. I love the way Christmas makes our house look and feel. So warm and cozy. I can't believe it is already this time again though... it came quick. It seems like it comes faster every year. Our neighbors across the street have a huge coutdown reminding me just how quickly the day will be here... down to the second. It's crazy, but exciting at the same time. I still have A LOT to do... Deagan understands it a lot better this year so it has been fun telling him about Santa. The first thing he asked was, "What does he drive?" Shocking. That kid.

Anyway, just thought I would share. What are some of your traditions?

Thanksgiving in Texas.

We spent Thanksgiving this year with the Sherwood part of the family in Texas. It was a LONG drive. We took two vehicles. Ours had Dev, Josh, Treyden, Zoe and I. Mike, Melissa, Riley, Dane, Tank and Deagan were all in the Yukon. We were really nervous about how the boys were going to handle the ten hour drive so we left at about four in the morning in hopes they would sleep most of the way... They both did pretty good, I was surprised but thankful!

Treyden had had enough about the last fifteen minutes of getting there though. I had enough too, I think we all did. It was so nice to finally get there.

We took family pictures while we were there. It was really neat to see everyone together. There was definitely a bunch of us!

Poad and Grandma Sherwood with the boys.

Poad and Grandma.

Treyden and Parker... haha, I just thought this one was funny.

Us.

Thanksgiving couldn't have been more perfect. The food was delicious, the weather was great and the company was even better. I am so thankful to be part of such a beautiful and wonderful family. We definitely don't get to see them enough so it made it that much more special. I hope we are able to do this more often. Deagan loved every second of it. He was outside pretty much the whole time and made some new friends. It was a quick couple of days and most of it was spent driving. But it was all worth it. We love you all.