this might be the longest post ever.

The fun never ends with Andi. Once we got to Bako and got rid of Andi's cold she started having issues with he ears. Every time she would burp or hiccup she would scream and grab her ears. By Wednesday she had green junk draining out of the tube which of course meant infection. The whole reason we did the tubes before we went out of town was so we wouldn't have to deal with an ear infection on vacation again. But we are just lucky because she had one. We took her to the surgeon today for a re-check and he said that 65% of kids who get tubes will have 1 ear infection within a year of the surgery, and she just got hers right away.
So Andi was miserable on Christmas and went back to bed before we even finished opening present. It's a good thing she won't remember this and will be able to have happy fun Christmas memories from here on out.
Other than that we had a really great time at home. We took new family pictures with Thad's fam on Christmas eve, an event over a year in the making. We haven't had the whole family together in forever! So it was really nice to have everyone there for a few days together.
Christmas morning we got up early as usual with my family. We had Kelsie and Cameron on the web cam so they could be apart of the morning, which tweaked bobby and bradon just a little. But only because it seriously slowed down the present opening process for a little while;) Then we had waffles because we all got new jazzy waffle makers. The ones you flip over and get perfect waffles every time. We went to Thad's parent's at 9 and I made omelette's for everyone and then we did the tree with them. Oh and we also did a white elephant exchange which was hilarious.
All the boys in my family got marshmallow guns and new Nerf guns with glow in the dark darts for Christmas, so as you can imagine the next few days the house was a battle field. They even went down to the church a couple nights to run around in the dark with their glowing darts.
We also had a surprise 50th wedding anniversary party for my grandparents while we were home. A bunch of family we hadn't seen in a while came so it was really fun. And the best part is that G&G had no idea! We headed back to bako the 30th and after some lame traffic and too many hours of baby einstein in the car we made it home at 1 am. Speaking of baby einstein we watched that for 3 days straight while she was sick because it was the only thing that kept her quiet. Thankfully when we got back she discovered care bears and will watch that now too. So we can have a little variety in our movies.
Now we are just relaxing and gearing up for Thad's last semester, yay! oh I had to post these picture of Andi and Walter. . .w e took them while we were home at the weddings last month but I couldn't post them because we framed them and gave it to my parents for christmas. Sorry I don't have any christmas pictures posted, but with Andi being as sick as she was I was way too distracted and my camera didn't even make it out of my bag. So I'm waiting on the ones from our parents cameras.