The last month, one of us or all of us were sick. It never seemed to end. Scarlet seemed to be sleeping in our bed that whole month too. We used to hate having her in bed with us. She's like a tornado, constantly in motion and I've literally been kicked in the face. She's just completely wild in bed. But she's mellowed out and we've gotten used to her being there. And honestly, sometimes we miss her and want her to come to bed with us. I never thought I'd say that.

Brighton's first bath in the tub.

A friend from Greg's work gave us this outfit. It's cute, but it's weird. It's just not our style. I only put it on him once and it weirded me out the whole time. I'm giving it away. It's too nice to be so unappreciated.

Playing in the tent with Daddy.

I don't think I blogged about my sister Rebecca coming to visit. She came around a month ago. It was really great. It was pretty sad, she got really sick within hours of arriving. So she only got to hold Brighton a couple of hours and then we kept the kids away from her :( She was so ill she had to sit on the couch the whole time, but honestly we had a great time! We just talked and talked, which is honestly what I like to do with family. Especially if I haven't seen them in awhile. I gave her ideas about snack prep and introduce her to Indian food. She introduced me to Love and Logic and it's changed EVERYTHING with Scarlet. It is so much easier to discipline her now. It seems there is something else she introduced me to, that changed everything, but now I can't remember.

Decorating the Christmas Tree.

I thought Scarlet would be way into it, but she wasn't. She was excited for about 2 minutes and then was way cranky and we put her to bed. This whole Christmas Season has NOT been what I planned. I was SOOOOO excited to do crafts and play music and watch movies. I've listened to Christmas music a LITTLE, watched NO movies and I did finally do 2 small crafts with Scarlet the other day. We got our tree up REALLY late. Just the WHOLE THING. I had so much planned and nothing happened. I've been too stressed about planning the ward christmas program among just being a Mamma. Hopefully next year will be more festive. It will HAVE to be! Everyone in Kyrgyzstan is Muslim! No one celebrates Christmas! The only place we'll get that christmas feeling will be in our own home.

We had a friend take some family shots by the tree.

A couple weeks ago we went to Idaho to see Danielle and Clay. We had a great time! It was mild weather, we thought it would be so much colder. This is us walking to see chickens.

Scarlet LOVED Date. She called him "Danteh". It was really cute. I couldn't get over how HUGE he was for 3 days. He really looked like a dinosaur to me. But Scarlet just fell inlove the moment she met him! So crazy! I mean, he literally towers over her. In the morning she would wake up and ask for him and talk about him sleeping and wanting him to wake up. It was so nice that we didn't have to worry about food for Scarlet. And Dan made some YUMMY treats while we were there. Holy smokes. I just DEVOURED the cinnamon rolls. I really had to control myself. And I didn't do a very good job. We talked a bunch and took Scarlet to a pet store. It was such a great idea! I never thought to do that before. She loved it. We played Balderdash and I kicked everyone's buns! I was really surprised. I thought I'd come in last, for sure. We played another game and I was the WORST. I mean literally everyone was heading towards the end of the board and I was just a few spaces from the starting point. It was really horrible. Trivia. I'm so bad at those games. Danielle and I went to a ZUMBA class. Oh man. It was so much FUN!!!! I love Zumba. It's a secret fantasy of mine to be a Zumba instructor. It was BY FAR the best class I've ever been too. I was so impressed and jealous of Danielle. Her ears had some reaction and literally closed up. Like there was no more ear hole. It was CRAZY. I felt really bad for her. It was so nice being in a house again. It really had a nice feeling. It was nice being in Idaho. It reminded Greg and I a lot of Central Point. We loved Central Point. I think small towns are nice. Neighborhoods that aren't crammed are nice. It was just nice.

I'm tired. I'm exhausted. I feel like I didn't do any of these events justice, but too much time has passed and I'm only going to forget more and more and lately I just don't have time for anything. 

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!