Merry Christmas to all!

another wonderful christmas!

although, i was a little scared that i was going to have the babies on christmas!!! eeek. i had been having contractions since about noon on christmas eve and hoped that they would go away. (they were the crampy contractions i got when i was in labor with Tylee.) So we went through the night, started out at my parents house, but since Tylee didn't want to sleep- crying, and distracted with other crying babies and voices etc, we decided we wanted to get some sleep and to just head home since we are two minutes away, which was at like 1:30. still hoping the contractions would subside, 4:00 hit and they were still going and although they didn't come and go at a consisant rate, they were close together and i wanted to figure out if i should be worried if i was going into labor or not. so i decided to head to the hospital before christmas day got here and then have to miss out on all the fun. i took myself in while darren stayed home with TK. They took a couple tests and although I was having a lot of contractions, they were not making me progress. I was dilated to a 1 and 50% effaced- which is nothing to cause a panic. So yay! they told me to lay down and let everyone cater to me :) "let your husband take care of your daughter... drink lots of water..." yada yada... my contractions continued throughout the day, but i did wake up this morning feeling lots better. A lot of people say well lucky you get to rest all day long, which sounds amazing right? well i didn't like people telling me constantly to sit down and the added attention, and i hated sitting down when i wanted to get our christmas gifts away and have a clean home haha. Darren is wonderful and he let me boss him around for the day :) and the laziness has been nice! I go to the Dr. tomorrow to be further instructed I guess. Anyway, i feel good and my plan is to keep these babies in for another 6 weeks! :)
so in love with both of them! christmas eve at the madsen home..

Teensy Ty feeding her cabbage patch doll... her name is Lina :)

way too much fun playing in the leaves!

more presents from MaSue and Papa Mike!

her brand new slide- you'd think sliding down it over and over and over again would get old.. not when you are a little toddler!

gifts from my parents! my mother always makes picture worthy presentation of well, everything she does. thanks so much mom and dad!!

new scarves! ;)

on our way to Grandma and Grandpa Wilstead with a few of her new toys!

we had dinner over at the wilstead home with lots of friends and family! We got spoiled by Mike and Denise as well!! Tylee got a table and chairs that she loves to color on because it is her perfect size and mickey mouse is on it! thanks mike and denise for your gifts!!!

after eating and hanging out for a while, we headed home and couldn't even finish a movie because we were so tired. Christmas comes and goes so fast, before we know it, it's going to be Christmas 2011!!