Christmas Eve

Well Christmas Eve was more exciting than most.  Because my brother and his family were in town and they were doing Christmas with Kim's family, we decided to do Santa's stockings a day early.  We also did my parent's traditions along with it.  These traditions include breakfast and clean up before going in the room withthe Christmas tree and opening presents one at a time.  This made for a long day but it was fun.

Jess and the girls got sick in the late afternoon.  Jess had the chills and didn't feel well.  Both Lilly and Sarah started running fevers.  We gave the girls priesthood blessings and worked on getting people to bed.  We checked Sarah's temperature and found it was 101.6 F.  Because Sarah has a central line (her port), any time she has a fever over 101 F we need to take her to the ER so that they can do a blood culture.  So, at 9 pm on Christmas Eve Sarah and I head up to Primary Children's Emergency Department.  Not quite how I was expecting to spend Christmas Eve.  My parents took over putting Lilly to bed and finish up the last minute wrapping for Christmas.  At the hospital, Sarah had some blood drawn and was given an antibiotic to prevent and bacterial sicknesses.  I am glad that Sarah's numbers were high or else it would have been an automatic hospital admittance.  We got home around 1 am.

I wish the excitement ended there.  Jess was woken up in the middle of the night to Sarah screaming.  Lilly was throwing up over the side of the top bunk.  It was hitting the ladder and splashing everywhere, including on Sarah, hence the screaming.  Jess got it cleaned up and everyone is doing better this morning.

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and hope you are blessed as you remember the birth of our Savior this day.  We are grateful for the love and prayers that we recieve and that are said in our behalf.