National Champs!

War Eagle!!!!!!  Auburn and Oregon played last night in the National Championship and Auburn won 22-19 . . . their first National Championship since 1957.  We are very proud!  Here is Joe watching the game last night.  He got cold so he wrapped up in our Auburn blanket.  He really was excited watching the game . . .even though you can't really tell from this picture:

Here he is after the win last night:

 In other news we have been snowed in since Sunday night.  It started snowing on Sunday around 10:00 and when we woke up Monday morning we had about 5-6 inches of snow on the ground.  Joe's work actually closed so we knew the roads must be bad!  

Here is what the outside looked like on Monday:

And today looks no different.  We decided to go out for a bit today because we were all getting cabin fever.  Emily and Abigail have been fighting nasty colds so we didn't go out yesterday:

 

 

Joe didn't go to work again today so we'll see what tomorrow looks like.  It's supposed to stay in the 30s until the end of the week so looks like this will be our view for a while!

Abigail

Well the Wilson clan knows what it's like now to sport a cast.  Sweet little Abigail broke her leg yesterday at childcare.  I took her to urgent care last night when she kept crying and wouldn't put her leg down when I got her home last night.  They put her in a splint until I could get her to the orthopaedic doctor.  She sure was a trooper for me:

 I was told last night that the cast would need to be above her knee and she would have to wear it for 4 - 6 weeks.  Dawn (her caregiver) and I talked a lot last night trying to figure out how and when it happened.  Abigail had gotten her leg caught up under a mat yesterday and one of the children "helped" her get her leg out and that was all we could come up with that happened . . .

After NO SLEEP last night I got an appointment for 10:30 this morning.  This appt went so well.  The doctor said this was a very common break and happens all the time.  It happens from a twisting motion when children are walking and twist their leg when they fall or get their leg stuck in something and twist to get out.  Anyway, we've been trying to motivate Abigail to start walking but it's actually a blessing that she hasn't started walking yet.  Because of that they only put the cast below her knee and covered her toes so she could still crawl and not hurt her toes.  So she is still going to be mobile!  If she was a walker already she would have the cast past her knee to keep her from walking which would have been very frustrating for her. . . . and the doc said she should only have to wear the cast for 3 weeks!  Not the original 4-6 weeks I was told last night.  So we are so thankful for all the good news we got on this today.

Of course at a pediatric ortho clinic they are only going to have bright cast colors to choose from!  I asked them why they didn't have pastels : )  So we chose purple since that was the least "bright as the sun" color I had to choose from.  Abigail even smiled when I took her picture:

 The first thing she did when we got home was crawl all over the living room and play with her toys so I don't think this cast is going to slow her down any : )  She's just going to have to get sponge baths for the next 3 weeks . . . so if my baby seems a little "crusty" to you the next time you see her cut her some slack ok?

More Christmas Festivities!

We went to Auburn this weekend to see Joe's family for Christmas:

Emily enjoyed helping Aunt Leslie pass out gifts:

 

Emily is thrilled that she now has another doll bed to put her babies in:

Grandmama loved the coffee cup we made for her:

Abigail enjoyed looking at all the pictures that were on the cup:

John gave us a head massager and Joe was trying it out.  I think he likes it:

Emily checking out Leslie's new scarf:

The girls got a pillow each and Abigail really loved hers:

. . . she spent about a half hour trying to stand on her head on the pillow:

Three generations of Wilson girls:

 

We had a great visit!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I can't believe today is the last day of 2010!  I'm in disbelief people.  Although, December 1st seems like 6 months ago because we always do so much in December.  Here is our recap of the Christmas festivities.  We have enjoyed the last couple of weeks with all the neighborhood kids home from school.  We've played several times in the cul de sac in our neighborhood and enjoyed several sunny days.  I'm typing this now with all our windows open in our house and enjoying the nice weather. 

We also had lots of pajama days.  We had days where the kids slept in PJ's, kept them on all day, and then slept in the same PJ's that night.  Here is Abigail on a PJ day holding her 6 and 9 so she can put her thumbs in the hole:

 

Abigail has also enjoyed sitting in Elm0's chair:

On Christmas Eve Joe got home early from work and we made some chex mix and granola:

 Here's what Santa left the girls on Christmas morning:

 The girls had fun looking around and checking everything out:

Emily got the "cutter food" from Santa that she had been asking for:

 

 Santa knew that Abigail would love the socks he left in her stocking.  She carried them around all morning:

 She also liked sitting in the box that Emily's cut up food came in:

 And for the first time since 1882, it snowed in Georgia on Christmas Day:

 Emily dressed herself after playing in the snow outside . . . isn't she lovely.  She was busy discussing who the good guys and bad guys were in the "Star Hors" movie she and Joe were watching:

 Joe even enjoyed the snow that evening while he grilled some chicken for our Christmas dinner:

 It snowed for over 12 hours on Christmas Day and left us lots of snow to play in the next morning:

 Emily and I even built a snowman!

 Sunday afternoon my family arrived and we had our annual finger food fellowship.  We always had this at my grandparents house on Christmas Eve and we are now carrying on the tradition:

 Joe helped my parents with their new E-reader that Dad gave to Mom for Christmas.  He thought he was cute using my sister's glasses:

 With my whole family here our tree looks full with all the presents:

 My parents let the kids open one gift before bed. They had recorded themselves reading a book to our kids and then had a book for Michelle's kids.  This book will be a great treasure:

 

After the kids went to bed we thought it would be fun for the adults to open gifts that night.  It was nice to be able to relax and enjoy each other's company:

 My brother gave me some lotion for Christmas so we all decided to give it a try:

 Monday morning the kids opened their gifts:

 Sam, Sawyer, and Emily all got matching super hero capes:

Uncle Robert gave Emily a washing machine for Christmas and Emily and Sawyer had a blast washing all the doll clothes my mom gave Emily.  Emily and Sawyer are only 9 months apart and play so well together.  It's fun to watch them:

 

We had a nice weekend together and a great Christmas!  We even turned Abigail's car seat around to end out the year.  Here she is riding in style while we ran errands yesterday.  She got an ear infection so I had to take her to the doctor on Tuesday but is feeling much better now:

 

And because I thought they looked so cute together, I got a picture of them riding in the cart while I bought groceries yesterday:

 Happy New Year!!!!!