Christmas 2011 was quiet for us. We did not travel this year and had no family in town. It gets a little lonely during the holidays! We miss you all up north! We had some nice quality time together with Charlie taking some days off from work and the boys had three weeks off. The weather was unbelievably warm. We had planned on going to the beach for New Years like we did the previous year with some great friends but we had a new puppy so unfortunately we didn't get to do that again. I finally got to attend a later Christmas Eve service which I haven't done since Braedyn was born. Braedyn sang in the choir and I remembered how beautiful those services are with the candles. I had a great friend move away in June back to Pennsylvania and she came to stay with us a couple days after Christmas and so it was great to catch up with Ms. Elaine! We miss her a lot!
She also helped me out one day during Christmas break as I had to have a little procedure done. Not many of you know, I had went in to the dermatologist at the end of November and they found some basal cell carcinoma on my back. It was scary to hear that word but after researching it, found it is more common these days than not. It was not the spreading or deadly skin cancer. Where it is located is the only place it is and they just cut it out. I thought I was too young and it was something that only old people got. I truly believe it was from those darn tanning beds in my later teen to 20s. To think, I didn't even go that often! I know many of you up there in MN go a lot more than I do, so be aware it can happen and it does! She said because of those tanning beds they are seeing more people in their 30s. They got it all out and it was a quick and easy procedure. The reason I had went in was because I had a mole on my back since Jordan was born and it was changing and I thought I should maybe go in and get it checked out just to be sure it was nothing but it was. Thank goodness it was on my back. It just left a little bit of a scar. It was only bothersome for a couple weeks or so. I was always slathering up the kids with sunscreen and there I sat with a little bit on my shoulders. I never thought about it. Life lesson learned. Now I am fine and I just have to be more careful and go in for skin checkups every six months.
Here are some pictures from our Christmas. Hopefully one of these years we will be able to be with family at Christmas again.
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| Just what I asked for! |
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| Both Boy love these Ninjago Legos! |
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| Braedyn is into the Diary of Wimpy Kid series |
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| Cooper's favorite, big smiles! |
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| Daddy's Lil Gators! |
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| Had to start the book |
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| Tough Guys! |
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| tradition of new jammies every year! |
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| That started a four hour Lego session! My eyes hurt after that! |
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