Christmas 2008

Christmas & Carly of course!

Christmas was really good, the kids all loved everything they got, we were really blessed this year. We had a couple of people do the 12 days of Christmas for us as well as a few "secret santa" gifts dropped off. We never did find out who our secret santa's were but a few days before Christmas the Hurricane High School Cheerleaders came by with gifts and stockings for the whole family, they were our secret santa! The kids loved going to the door everynight to try and catch whoever was dropping off the gifts!

Thanks girls!

Carly didn't think much of Christmas this year except that the lights were pretty and crinkly paper sounds awesome!



Ashlee let Carly wear her Santa hat and in return
Carly attacked Ashlee's head!

I think Chad took this picture of Miss Belle at one of
Brandon's Chemo appointments in December, we just
cracked up at the crazy eyes she had 8)

December....

December was crazy....as i'm sure it was for everyone. I'm going to try to do a quick recap of the month. Brandon did really well with his surgery and recovery at home. We had to drive to Salt Lake on the 23rd for his post surgery checkup. As I'm sure everyone noticed, the weather wasn't exactly great in December....we made the trip in one day....up was horrible, but back was a bit safer. The appointment did really well, they originally said he would be in a boot for several weeks, but it turns out he was healing so well that they just did an X-ray, took off the soft cast, removed the drain and sent us home! This is the picture of the X-ray, the wavey thing is the drain that was left in for a couple of weeks, but if you look at the bottom you can see where his fibula bone ends! It's pretty crazy that they just took it out and didn't put anything back, but we are amazed and blessed that he seems to have almost full function of his leg.