Where did December go??

Geez - it has been a crazy few weeks around our house! On December 13th we got a present better than anything Santa could bring. My nephew Steven Cole Mauricio was born. It was a LONG day and Tammie was in labor for 16 hours and had to end up having a C-Section. He is absolutely precious and Cori loves her cousin so much (more about Cole below).



We FINALLY got all the presents wrapped before our Christmas party with my mom's side of the family the Saturday before Christmas. SANTA (my brother) came to our party and the kid's loved it!! Cori even sat in Santa's lap this year. I thought for sure she was still terrified. She would not even look at a Coke can with Santa's picture on it. We had a BLAST!!







We spent Christmas morning with my parents, Christmas afternoon with David's family and back to my parents house for a Christmas night party. Cori got a million toys!! Santa brought her a kitchen and she loves making me things to eat! It is hilarious watching her play with all the food and utensils. We are very blessed to have such an awesome family and get to spend time with each other.





Then the not so good part of December happened. I got a call from Tammie (my nephews mom) Friday afternoon - the 28th (which also happened to be David and my 4 year anniversary). She was hysterical and needed me to come and get her and Cole and get them to the ER. (She can't drive - C-section). Cole had a MAJORLY bloody diaper. I was dropping Cori off with my mom because David and I were going on a date that night so I was in Sugar Land, at least 35 minutes away from her so she called an ambulance to come and get them. I got to Texas Childrens not to long after they got there. He went into emergency surgery that night because his intestines were in a bind. He had another surgery Sunday morning to remove 75 cm. of his intestines that were dead. His prognosis is very good. He got the ventilator removed yesterday and Tammie got to hold him. His tummy has not started making grumbling sounds, so they can not start him on food and he is not too happy about it!! I am going up again after work to check on my munchkin!! Here are a few pictures that I took of him on Christmas day!! Please keep him and our family in your prayers!!







We had a low key New Years and went to our neighbors, Juan and Melissa's party.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year and I will fill you in on Cole soon.