A Very Crazy Christmas!

Merry Christmas! We hope everyone had a great holiday! The Jensen family had a rather crazy Christmas!! Here's what we did:

Katie got one of her molars unexpectedly pulled on Wednesday and had a little bit of a rough time recovering from that. Still feeling a little rotten, on Friday just 10 minutes before our Christmas Eve dinner guests arrived Megan started vomiting. We got things all cleaned up and had her stay in her room during our dinner. After dinner when we were gathered in the living room to have a little Christmas program Natalie started vomiting. That was the start of a horrible and very memorable Christmas! We politely excused our guests and not long after they left Daniel started vomiting as well. For the next 12 hours we had all three children vomiting about every 30-40 minutes or so. That night we went through lots of bed sheets, blankets, and pj's! Then at about 5am on Christmas morning Katie started feeling sick. Needless to say we had a rather quiet and calm Christmas day that was not full of excitement and play. Steen was wonder Dad as he was our family doctor, cook, maid, and Christmas Elf for the day.

Now that we are feeling better all we can do is laugh about this past week. As parents you work so hard to make Christmas perfect in every way possible, but sometimes the unexpected happens and all you can do is except things for what they are! Here are some of the pictures we took showing the better side of our holiday!

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For our Christmas Eve gift exchange, Megan got Daniel a new "Prince Eric" doll. He loves it!

Here are the sickies posing for the only pic I got of them in their Christmas pj's.
Here's Megan with a very special present she received from Santa Clause on Christmas Eve. As we were putting Megan to bed at about 9pm we heard sirens outside. Steen went out to check things out and saw Santa sitting in a decorated boat being pulled around our neighborhood by some police cars. He came inside and got Megan and we went back out. Soon enough Santa stopped by our house and gave Megan and stocking full of goodies and this black bear. Megan could not believe her eyes and told Santa that her Christmas wish had some true. She was able to meet the real Santa from the North Pole! After we waved goodbye to Santa we all came inside and Megan was on cloud 9! She was the happiest she had been all night. Since then she has said to us about 25 times that her wish came true! Who would have thought...and she won't part with the bear that Santa gave her!

Our tree - all decked out and ready for Christmas morning.

Here's Natalie with her new baby stroller from Santa.

Daniel was still pretty sick here. He basically laid down all day and attempted to play with his new toys.

Sunday Christmas Pics

Here are some pics of us all dress up for church this past Sunday.

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All ready for church! A (burry) family pic!

Megan in front of the orange tree

Natalie in front of the orange tree

Daniel in front of the orange tree

Megan & Daniel

Natalie

Kindergarten Christmas Fun!

On Monday Megan had a kindergarten Christmas concert. They sang 5 or 6 songs and sounded so cute! It was Megan's first concert and boy was she proud! In between the songs she would wave at us and give us big smiles. After the concert her class had a Christmas party. I was able to help out at the sugar cookie decorating station. We had lots of fun. Megan sure does love school, her classmates and her teacher!

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Here's the group shot.

And here's Megan back in the classroom at the gingerbread play dough station.

A trip home

Last week the kids and I took a last minute surprise visit to Vancouver. It was crazy of me to travel across the country with three kids, but once we arrived in WA it was nothing but fun, food, lots of family time and of course too much shopping. It was great to see the family and be back in the rainy Pacific Northwest. Florida is great, but I still really love Vancouver. I am home sick again, but hopefully we'll get to go out soon again and this time I'll be sure to bring Steen!

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Here's Grandma Billett with four of her seven great-grand kids. And here's Daniel with Spiderman at the outlet mall.

They would make a great super hero team, don't you think?

We are just crazy busy trying to get ready for Christmas at the Jensen house. It's been a busy last month or so for us. More pics to come - sometime! Until then Merry Christmas to all!