Our First Christmas Is Coming To An End

Well, it's Wednesday today and it's time to put an end to all the festivities. We have been at my mom and dad's since last Friday and have been enjoying every minute of our break. We celebrated Christmas Eve morning at Grandma Deb's house and then that evening we went to church in Slayton and had Christmas with Great-Grandma Finke. We actually had no plans for Christmas day. Daddy went snowmobiling for the day so the rest of us just stayed in the house and did some baking and getting ready for when Kris, Josh and Khloe came later that evening. We celebrated Christmas with my family on Sunday and we have all been hanging out since. Now today, my parents are headed to Arizona, Kris is heading back to Des Moines, and we are headed back to Brewster....we've missed daddy this week :)

Christmas was absolutely fantastic this year looking at it through the eyes of our chidlren. I know they are too young to remember any of this or to really get anything out of it, but for us, it was priceless. Last year my sister was pregnant and we surprised everyone with the news that we were expecting TWO babies. We were all soo looking forward to this Christmas to enjoy the miracle of three beautiful babies. So very different than last year. Of course it all went way too fast and now we are left with going home, unpacking, putting things away, and finding space for all of the wonderful things we were spoiled with this year. But, we loved spending time with family and we can't thank our parents enough for for everything they've done for us this past week.

**I also wanted to let everyone know that Cody's nurse called him yesterday. The Dr. showed his scans to the neurosurgeons who all felt very comfortable with waiting the two months for his next MRI. They didn't say anything about what they thought this "spot" might be, just that they felt comfortable with him coming back in two months. They gave him the option of having the next scan done in Sioux Falls or to go back to Rochester to have it done. We've both talked about it and feel having this next one done here would be just fine. The Dr. did feel though, that if there was change on his next scan, that they would recommend we go back to Rochester to have them look at it. We are very comfortable with this plan. As for now, we don't feel it's necessary to go back up there unless needed. So we will wait and see what this next MRI brings. For now though, the nurse will schedule it for sometime in February and let us know.