If you can read this x-ray….you’ll know that Levi has pneumonia. Not good for an asthmatic. He’s been sounding rough, with the typical winter asthma crud and I took him into the doctor’s on Friday. He got some meds and we were on our way. Usually the steroids clear him right up but Sunday morning he could hardly catch his breath in between coughs and he was complaining about it hurting. Off to the ER we went and it turned out he’s got pneumonia in the right lobe. Poor guy.
He’s been a trooper, staying positive when he feels cruddy. Now he’s on 4 meds and we’re hoping it starts to help soon. Send good vibes Levi’s way!

Later on Christmas morning we headed over to Nana and Papa’s house to have Christmas with them. We got our cool Flip video camera and Carlos was super excited about geting a yo-yo and gum. Levi and Trey had both wanted a Imaginext castle with a dragon that eats people in the front and they got it! I just love Christmas morning, it’s such a genuine, intimate, pure family time.

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Here are a few shots of our Christmas morning, pretty mellow….lots of paper! This year the boys slept in a little, but we weren’t complaining. We had dinner at my folks on Christmas Eve, then came home and got the milk and cookies ready for Santa before tucking the boys in for the night. We have a tradition of wrapping each boy’s presents in a different paper and not using any labels, that way if they dig around before Christmas nobody knows who’s getting which one.
I remember when I was little my parents switched the tags on my brother and my “big” gift one year. Christmas morning I went right for “my” gift and it turned out to be Todd’s…nice move, mom and dad.
Highlights of Christmas morning gifts included Nerf guns for the boys (yes, we caved!) and the coolest sign from Dee that is now proudly hanging as you walk into our house that says “Welcome to the Chaos”. That just about sums it up.

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So one of the highlights of my Christmas this year was a special present from my cousin, Nathan. If memory serves me right about 6 years ago, Pepsi came out with a special edition holiday flavor that I jokingly bought for Nathan and I to try. It was heinous. So, of course it became a running joke between us. Little did I know that he saved a can of it and gave it to me this year as a joke. It was as bad as I remembered, basically tastes like flat Coke.
Thank you, Nathan for such a thoughtful fun gift! 🙂

I have been a bad, bad blogger…and I know it. I promise to sit down and get Christmas pictures and shots from the last 3 weeks on here. We’ve been doing a whole lot of nothing, but getting back into school routine (and a couple of long days a week now for Levi, meaning a NEW routine) is tough.
It’s going to happen, this update, and it’s going to be BIG! Brace yourself.

Of course, I’ll keep this one up and running….but I’ve started a new blog to help with Dee and my Biggest Loser Competition that starts today! We figured we are both so competitive that if we make it a game, it will be more fun and inspiring to us both. Hopefully we will both end up big losers!

http://kendrasaloser.blogspot.com/2010/01/heres-new-beginnings.html