January Week #1 & New Years

This is a very busy few weeks for us. Let me paint you a picture. December 25th: Christmas, December 28th: Anniversary, Dec. 31st: New Years, Jan. 2nd: Freeman’s Bday, Jan. 5th: Baby due, Jan. 17th: Anslie’s Bday, January 31st: Michelle’s Bday. We might as well give up any sort of life and give in to a full time party!

Our Anniversary was nice, Freeman and I went to dinner at Texas Roadhouse, which was noisier and more full of beer advertisements that we remembered, ha. Oh well, we partied with the cowboys and enjoyed the great food.

Next Party was the next night, Mom Linton’s birthday! During the day we had a “princess party” at Elise’s house for several of the girl cousins who were having birthdays that week. The girls all wore their princess dress-ups and we painted faces, did make up, had a fashion show, and made princess crowns. Anslie has about 8 little girl cousins, all close to her age. Too fun! That night we had a birthday dinner for Mom, provided by Kristi, and then had a program for Mom while the cousins ran wild. The cousins running wild part was actually just a constant activity from December 23rd until the last out-of-town family drove away.

New Years Eve we all gathered at Mom and Dad’s and ate snacks, watched the ball drop (early, so the kids could see it), had a dance party with all the cousins in pajamas, and had a white elephant party.I walked away with some Bath and Body lotion, not a bad prize! We adults must be getting old. Used to be we’d all stay up until the wee hours of the morning any time we were together, especially on a night like New Years. But by 11 pm several had already fallen asleep on the couches and floors.

Sunday the 2nd was Freeman’s birthday. We all enjoyed dinner together, Mom and Annie made a delicious Texas sheet cake that we had with ice cream and homemade fudge. Thanks Mom and Annie for doing all the work for that get together! I made Freeman strawberry crepes for lunch, that was about all I had the energy to do for him, poor guy.

Bless Mom and Dad Linton. My goodness, feeding 40+ people, 3 meals a day, keeping up with the mess and putting up with the 25+ crazy children, its enough to do a 70-year-old Grandpa in! They were so gracious about the craziness. It was fun to be all together.

The downer part of all this is the GERMS! Boo for germs! About New Year’s Eve I started to feel ill, as did much of the extended family. Freeman got it too. Poor guy, he’s sicker than I’ve seen him in years. He was diagnosed with the flu today and got some medicine. We are hoping that he and I will recover before the baby is born.

SPEAKING OF BABY!!! TODAY IS MY DUE DATE!!! We’ll keep you updated, we can wait to meet our new little addition, coming sometime in the next week! Stay tuned!