Merry Christmas Eve

Tonight we greeted for the Christmas Eve service, not sure our church was ready for Heath kids greeting. They sang carols, said Merry Cristmas, held open doors and shook hands. They did a great job!

Miss you all!!

Holding the doors waiting for the next person to sing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" to. 

Playing Katie's new hippy board game after church. 

Kyle was being Captain Hook after watching Peter Pan. 

Reading books before bed

Happy Christmas to all and to all a good night. 

Christmas preparations

We have been hard at work in the Heath house getting ready for Christmas. Today we...

First we went grocery shopping, Katie and 4 kids took on Walmart and Costco.... And lived to tell the tale. It was CRAZY!!!!

Costco lunch Time and Kyle showing off his new gloves, they are a pretty good fit! His OT is amazing, she has been working very hard to get Kyle in good garments. 

Sweet potatoes for tomorrow...mmmmmm

She told me she was Captin Hook!

Potato rolls

Mmmm more potato rolls

Well I better get some sleep so we are ready for Wade to come home tomorrow

for Christmas Eve. 

Gingerbread houses

The other day we ran into Michaels to get a few things. Josh spotted gingerbread house kits for 50% off. Who can pass up $5 kits with everything included!!!! So we picked two up.

 

 We had a Girls Vs. Boys competition

 Wade is a lot better at building the houses, he had to help the girls out after ours collapsed

 Working hard

 The Girls House

 The boys house

 

Merlin judged, we are not sure what this look means, but I think it was a tie!

Cookies!

The other day we had a play date with some friends and the kids got to decorate cookies. 

The girls

The boys

Kyle, who just wanted to eat the icing

I did not get a picture if his cookie till almost too late

Delaney and her m&m cookie

Lucy and her cookie

Sunday night was our small group Christmas party, the kids got to stay with a sitter, she did a great job with all 7!!!

Tug :-)

Scuttle 

Christmas Cookies Round 1

To day we are starting Christmas baking. These are Swedish Spritz (Wade's Mimi's recipe made with her cookie press). The kids got to pick the shapes and colors as you can see in the following. 

First batch into the oven we go!! Kyle picked yellow stars that look more like kites then stars. Lou Lou picked pink stars. 

Sample time. He kept asking for more so I know know what was up with that face. 

Yummmmmmm!!!!

Delaney added brown doggies to the mix. 

Open wide!!!

Josh was at theropy with mom but he requested brown camels. To mix up the colors we added some white to them. 

The finished product. 

Joshy missed out on baking but he did score a date at Five Guys with mommy. Lucky dude!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

Road trip!!!

This week we went on a road trip to Peoria to meet our new little family member Isaac, his family and the Nanny ;-)

Nanny reading bed time stories in our motel room

Breakfast/snuggle time 

Happy kids Happy Nanny 

Bass Pro shop, making our Christmas lists

Here fishy fishy

Roar!!

Cousin pool time 

Swimming swimming 

Nanny and her big kids  

Josh loves babies and Isaac was pretty happy with him too

Kyle likes batman, my cute batmen 

Wade and I got to sneak away for a Date night last night, 15 years and we still like each other. It has been quite a ride, I would not chose to go thru it with anyone else. God blessed me with a wonderful husband that loves him, takes care of, cares for and loves our family no matter what we get tossed at us. He is pretty amazing and I would still "live in a tent and eat pork and beans" with him any day.  

Friday night at the Heath house

Watching TV and rolling bandages for Mama to wrap Kyle. And Kyle using his pump. 

Kinley enjoying a bone 

When your life resembles a country song....

So Wade spent the weekend trying to get his truck running, but things did not go as planned, so the truck is in the garage in a lot of pieces and hopefully when he gets off duty he can work on it some more. 

The hardest part of our week came Monday afternoon when I got a call from the vet. The kids and I had dropped Kinley off in the morning for her X-ray. The vet called to tell me the reason Kinley has been limping on her leg is because she has bone cancer that they think has metastasized to her lungs. He told me that we can keep her comfortable with pain medicine, but we really don't have much else. He said that he hopes she can make it thru the holidays for the kids. That was hard to hear. We have had Kinley since she was 6 weeks old, she has moved with us 8 times in her 12 years, she has been a constant companion, faithful and sweet. 

Now she is being really spoiled

Happy dog 

Today at coop we finished our "body" project 

We will keep you updated on Kinley, right now we are just enjoying our time with her and working through this with the kids.