Holiday's

Haven't posted in a while so I thought I was due for an update.  The holiday's have been GREAT!  My mom came to visit us for Thaknsgiving.  I ran the Turkey Trot in the morning and ran the 8 miles in 1 hour and 6 minutes!  I was very pleased.  Unfortunately, when I returned we discovered the Mackenzie was very sick.  She sounded like she had croup and was very congested.  That evening we alternated her between the steamy bathroom and the cold outdoors.  In the middle of the night she was having trouble breathing so I took her to the dr. frist thing in the morning.  The dr. infomed me that she had croup and bronchitis.  We were given a nebulizer and breathting treatments immediately.  She seemed to be doing a little better after her initial one but the dr said if she continued wheezing to give her another one when we got home and if it STILL continued to take her to the ER.  Well, that is exactly what we had to do.  Jason was golfing so I left Mady with my mom and headed for the ER.  It was one of the scariest experiences of my life!  The rushed us in immediately and set up an IV and did blood work and chest xrays.  The respiratory specialist came down pretty quickly and proceeded to give her 2 back to back breathing treatments at very high dosages.  The dr said she had a pretty severe case of bronchitis and croup but the breathing treatments helped tremendously.  We were there for about 4 hours before we were released to go home. What a traumatic day!  Jason rushed off the golf course to get to the ER but they wouldnt let him back with us due to a one visitior only clause because of the swine flu :( But he waited in the ER until I told him to go home and wait for us. We ended up buying a nebulizer and gave her treatments consistently for about 2 weeks and she is MUCH better now.  That was our second year of Thanksgiving illnesses and I hope it does not continue to be trend!  mom got to help us put up and decorate our tree which was extremely special.  We are so Thankful to have her in our lives.

I ran my second half marathon this year on December 18th- The White Rock Marathon in Dallas.  It was absolutely awesome and I finished in 1 hour and 55 minutes!  I did extremely well in my age group and was totally psyched.  Jason and the girls came and met up with me after and Jamie and Richard met us at Ozona for brunch.  So fun!  That night Madelyn and i went on a horse drawn carriage ride in our neighborhood looking at all the Xmas lights - she was facinated!

We celebrated Xmas at our house Saturday morning Dec 19th.  We woke up and Santa had come to our house and Madelyn was so excited!  It definitely was princess Christmas! She has me in a constant state of awe with how old and independent she is getting.  She speaks like a 10 year old and can dress herself, put her shoes on and go to the potty all by herself!  She is only 2 1/2!!!  We went to gymnastics that morning, had a quick lunch and then loaded up the car and headed to Kansas City!  We made great time and got there in 9 hours at about 8:30pm.  We were there for a week and it was awesome to spend the  time with the family!  We stayed at my Dad's but saw Steph and the kids pretty much every day.  Wow, did they all play well together!  We are so lucky to have each other!  Madelyn went ice skating for the fist time and loved it.  We also had a pretty insane blizzard while we were there and she got to go sledding and played in the snow!!  Mackenzie was her usual amazing self -so happy and laid back.  Both girls were perfect in the car.  We also took Madelyn to the nutcracker and she was mesmerized!  But did fall asleep for the second act - poor thing only had one nap all week!  We drove back Sunday and it took forever!  About 10 hours due to the snow and weather.  Plus Mady got carsick and threw up twice...not fun!

We are now getting back into the swing of things and preparing for the New Year.  Mackenzie can sit up on her own now and we are waiting for her to crawl.  I put her to sleep in her crib up in her room Sunday night for the first time (she has been sleeping in a co-sleeper in our room up until now) and she slept from 7:30pm until 12:30 then she started freaking out so I brought her back down stairs.  The past 2 nights I have put her to sleep at 7pm in her crib upstairs and I've had to wake her up at 6am!!!!  I am so excited!  I havent run in 2 days since I am relishing all this sleep! 

I am taking tomorrow off and not putting the girls in school so we will have a fun, relaxing day together getting ready for NYE.  We are just planning on staying home and watching the fetivities on TV.  We'll probably celebrate around 9 and go to sleep. 

Jason and I will be celebrating our 3rd anniversary on January 13th and will be heading to Dallas for some Sushi.  Then in March we will be traveling to Orlando - Jason  registered me for the Princess half marathon at Disney!!  I am so excited and cannot wait to take the girls. 

Well, that's all for now.  Happy new Year everyone!