Merry Christmas and to All a Good Night

I love Christmas. It's so wonderful to see family and share time, love and joy. We had a really great day today, but it was pretty non-stop. I was up until midnight last night getting things ready for this morning. Ryan chose last night of all nights to be up until 10:45! It was not an easy night. With the help of my mom, dad, brother and husband we managed to pull off a pretty good Christmas day. I was up this morning at 7 getting stuff ready for brunch before the kids got up. The kids got up and we had round one of presents. Then Jay's whole family came over and since my family is all here we had all of our closest relatives with us for a good part of the day. That was really nice. I made a really good breakfast casserole(slightly modified) that I found on All recipes and I will post on Naptime Gourmet. We had round 2 of gift opening. Then spent some time with the family. Ryan didn't go down for his nap especially easily, so I used to opportunity to lie down with him in our bed and get some rest myself. In the evening we headed out to my spend Christmas dinner with my dad's side of the family while my parents and brother went off to spend that time with my mom's side of the family...that was a little weird, but we spent the whole day with them, so it was okay. We just spent a whole day with my mom's side 2 weeks ago for Cookie Day- my parents and brother couldn't be in town then, so it kind of makes sense. There we had round 3 of presents. We got home about 10:30 and now we can relax and reflect on the day. It was a good day :-)

There shall be more on Christmas tomorrow.

Christmas Eve

It's Christmas Eve. It's hard to believe. It doesn't quite seem real. It has come up on me so fast this year. I wonder if that is a little bit how Mary felt on the eve of her baby boy's birth. When I went to the hospital to have Ryan it was a little strange to know that we would be coming back with a whole new little person. I remember it not seeming quite real. Can you imagine not even knowing where you were going to spend the night all the while having contractions?! That couldn't have seemed real. I would have been Fah-REAKing out! Talk about a stressful birth. I'm thinking Mary's trust in the Lord really paid off at that point. I wish I had her complete faith and trust.

Rockin' Star

Ryan was rockin' out to his Leap pad this morning. He had the music page out and he was playing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." He was just dancing away. This has been going on quite a bit in the past few days. He has added some moves to his dance repertoire. He used to just bounce and move his arms up and down. Now he has some back and forth action goin'. It's really cute to watch.
Now that he can turn his Leap Pad on and press all the right buttons to get to the songs he plays them all the time. It can get quite annoying listening to the same song over and over... and over. And don't try to sneak and turn it off when he leaves the room, oh no, he will hear and come back to restart the dance party. At least when he is there dancing it's entertaining to watch.

Single Digits

I feel a little bit silly posting about the time I have left being pregnant again, but people the weeks left are in the single digits! Single digits! That means the longest I'll probably have to wait is now less than 10 weeks. I know some people go past their due date, but I'm not counting on that since Ryan was almost 2 weeks early. I'm getting really excited now. The baby closet is filling with pink, my tummy is reaching it's limits of hugeness, the day I get to meet my baby girl is getting closer!

and we still don't have a name!!!

Wow! 30 Weeks.

I'm 3/4 done with my pregnancy. My little ticker only has two more pictures until it reaches the end. I'm already starting to re-think my idea of having Sweet Pea hang on until March. Wouldn't Valentine's Day be a lovely day for a birthday? I can do indoor parties, right? Yes, if it means I can have this baby earlier! Amethyst is a very pretty birthstone too. I believe there was a very brief moment that I envied the February birthstone in middle school because it was so pretty and mine(diamonds) are so expensive. Violets and Irises are pretty birth flowers as well. I've almost convinced myself...anyone else have a great reason to be born in February?