Ladies and Gents - We may have a thumbsucker!

Yes, it's true! Audrey has been sucking her thumb for about three days now. She's been sucking on her hands for weeks now but all of a sudden she has found her thumb and has woken up from sleep and then found her thumb and fell back asleep. I don't know if this is good or bad. It's good because she has something that soothes her but take it from me, thumbsucking can be a hard habit to break. Some of you know that I sucked my thumb, my mom says from within the womb, and I didn't stop until a week before I was 12 and only because my sister and I both couldn't get our ears pierced until I stopped sucking my thumb. Anyway, it's cute for now but hopefully it won't last as long as it did for me.

A Winter Wonderland
Denver was hit with a huge snow storm. The blizzard of 06'! We got about 2-3 ft. of snow. Denver International Airport will have been closed for almost 2 days by the time it is back up and running which they say is tomorrow at noon. We have been stranded in our house and it's been fun. We watched movies, made homemade pizza, my brother came over tonight because he could get to us with his 4 wheel drive. He said the rest of the city is like a ghost town. Very quiet and hardly anyone out and about. The town basically shut down. There are hardly any businesses open because people are stranded and can't get to work.
Olivia loves the snow and helped her daddy shovel today. Well, she really just watched him sweat but she loved it. We are supposed to fly to Oklahoma tomorrow evening and I don't know if it will happen. They say they will open at noon but you never know and then there will only be limited flights out tomorrow since they don't have all the planes there. My brother is dropping us off because he has a 4 wheel drive and there is no way we could get there with our small cars. A lot of side streets including ours have not been plowed yet. BUT then Michael is leaving to drive to Wyoming for Christmas so if our flight ends up not leaving we may be stranded at the airport. With two young girls, I pray this does not happen. Anyway, when we make it we will be in Oklahoma for a week so Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and I'll be blogging more next year. Hasta la vista!

Thanksgiving come and gone

We had a great Thanksgiving trip back to Wyoming. I love being back there with family and enjoying life away from responsibilities at home. Here are a few pictures from our trip.

First, in Rock Springs we got to visit with my Aunt Paula and my cousin Sam who were visiting from Eugene, OR. I wish we could see them more, they're lots of fun.
Here are the little troopers at Thanksgiving in Casper, WY. From left to right are Katie (4 yrs.) and Titus (1 1/2 yrs.), my cousin Andrea's kids, then Maya (6 months), my cousin Tony's little girl, then Audrey, and next to her is Dalton (8 months) who belongs to my cousin Nathan, and of course my Olivia. It was fun having three new babes around this year. We get together every two years on Thanksgiving so next time the little ones will be 2 years old. Crazy!
Olivia ate Turkey dinner with her cousins. Sean on the right wasn't in our group pic above because they had to leave early but he is my cousin Jason's little boy.

When we got back to Denver I got a wonderful surprise! Steve had put up our Christmas tree and decorated the house while we were in Rock Springs so it was all done when we got back. What a treat! I love that about my husband, he loves to surprise me! He doesn't want me to stress out about things so he does them for me many times to make me smile. Thanks honey, you're the best. To top it off there were presents under the tree wrapped and everything. Olivia's and Audrey's eyes lit up when they saw the tree.

My Dear Sweet Granny

Please be in prayer for my sweet granny Thompson. She fell down her stairs from top to bottom two nights ago and suffered many serious injuries. She was going downstairs to bed and she caught her shoe on something and couldn't get it loose. She tumbled down landing at the bottom where she laid unconscious in a pool of blood for about an hour and a half. She awoke, then somehow managed to make it to the bathroom to get a towell and then back upstairs to dial 911. We still aren't sure how she dialed the number or unlocked her door to let the EMTs in because she had two shattered wrists from her fall. Along with her wrists, she broke her nose, cracked a vertebrae in her neck, and cut her face clear through from cheek to cheek underneath her nose. I still feel ill when I think about it. She is in the hospital now and has had surgery on her wrists and face. They also adjusted her nose and she's wearing a neck collar. She had plates and pins put in her wrists and she can't move them for eight weeks. She will have to have 24 hour care since she can't move her hands. She has been through so much for a 76 year old granny. Thanks for praying.