Our holiday season began with our traditional trip to see The Christmas Carol. It worked out that Blake was done with finals the last week of the show and we could go and start off the Christmas break right. We had originally planned on leaving Jordyn with someone and only taking Kenlee to the show but I procrastinated trying to find someone to watch her and ran out of time so we ended up taking both girls to the show. I thought that there was a good chance we would spend most of it wandering the halls with Jordyn but she loved it! From the minute it started she was on the edge of her seat watching. Before we left for the show Kenlee started to feel sick, I was so worried that she had the stomach bug that Blake had had a few days before. After a small debate we decided to still take her with us, seeing as how we were not sure what was going on and she had been so excited to go see it. By intermission I was super worried about her but she insisted that her tummy was ok and so we finished the show but hurried home not too long after it ended. She had a fever so I gave her some tylenol and put her to bed, hoping she would wake up better on Sunday. At around 3 in the morning I woke up to check on her and her breathing was really rough and she had started with a barking cough. We knew what that meant, croup again. Blake spent a good 30 minutes on the front porch with her while I set up our bedroom to keep her with us and freeze our room out for her breathing. After a few popsicles and getting her to relax she was able to go to sleep on our floor and get a little more rest. We spent the next few days watching lots of movies and trying to keep the girls apart.
In November we made the decision that we wanted to take the girls back to Temple Square to see that lights. The plan was to go on Blake's first day off after he was done with finals. That day happened to be the Wednesday after Kenlee started with croup. Since she was starting to feel better and being out in the cold was good for her breathing we decided to make the trip still. It was beautiful but really cold so we never stopped to take any pictures because it felt like the wind was cutting through us. If you ask Kenlee what her favorite part was she would probably tell you everything because she just loves the holidays. When you ask Jordyn she will tell you all about the ladalou (water fountains), she was obsessed with them. We would try to point out the lights and all she wanted was the fountians. To top off her experience, when we got back to City Creek Mall to head down to the parking structure, we happen to get there when their fountain was doing a choreographed number to a Christmas song... there was even fire in the middle of the water. She was amazed! Once we made it back to the van we headed to get some dinner at Red Robins. Jordyn started getting a cough that night and I hoped that hers would stay a small cold.
The next day Jordyn was fevering and obviously was feeling really sick. Her cough was rough but never got barking and her breathing seemed relatively normal but she never seemed to be getting any better so after many many nights of no sleep, I decided to take her to the doctor the Monday before Christmas. I was surprised to find out that she had croup as well seeing as her symptoms didn't progress like they should have. Luckily the doctor was able to give her a steroid to open her throat and after a few days she was doing a lot better.
After our trip to the doctors office, I took the girlies home to get some much needed rest and tried to clean up the house and prepare for Christmas since it was only two days away and those days were full of family time. After the girls short rest we gathered up and headed over to my parents house for the traditional eve before the eve of Christmas sleep under the tree. Of course we did pizza night and each family brought their creation. Blake and I made a BBQ chicken pizza with pineapple on it, Tiffany and Brock made a delicious veggie and meat pizza, Karlee and Colton made a wonderful margarita pizza and Mom and Dad made a traditional Hawaiian pizza with a little end of pepperoni for Nate and the little girls. We all over ate and then settled out the bed situation. Blake and I opted to sleep with sick Jordyn upstairs in the reading room to try and let everyone else sleep. Jordyn had not slept more then a hour or two at a time since she had started with croup. Kenlee wanted to stay with her aunts and uncles in the basement so we set her up down there. Unfortunately Kenlee was startled by the kitties wandering around and trying to snuggle, and Tiffany and Brock's mattress became a taco and Colton's mattress went flat so not much sleep was to be had. Maybe next year.....
Blake worked Christmas eve morning so the girls and I hung out with my family til around 5 then gathered up and went back to our house to get the things we needed to go see Blake's family. After Blake got home we quickly hurried to his parents house to have dinner and exchange a few Christmas gifts. Because the little girls, especially Jordyn, were still not feeling well we didn't stay very long, hoping to not get McKenzie sick were she was in the age group our doctor had warned me to keep Jordyn away from. Once we got home we quickly got the girls ready for bed in their new Christmas jammies and began a frantic night of getting everything ready for Christmas day. That night was the first full nights sleep that all of us had had in about 2 weeks. It was wonderful! Kenlee woke up first and Blake heard her say "Its Christmas Day!" from her bedroom. Then she made her way to the living room and squealed "Santa came!" Finally she came to get us and we waited a few minutes for Jordyn to wake up and then all gathered in the living room to see what Santa had brought.
Once the girlies had opened everything and finished their naps we all headed to my parents house to have a Mexican Christmas dinner. We usually do an unusual Christmas dinner of different kinds of mexican foods and this year was wonderful. Since Tiffany and Brock had to get to another family thing we finished opening gifts with all the family together right after dinner. Then once everything settled down we all just hung around chatting while the girls played with some of their new toys. Time slipped away and we finally had to get the poor girls home to bed since they were both still getting better. Christmas was so fun this year with Kenlee and Jordyn both beginning to see the wonder and excitement of the holidays.
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