I LOVE CHRISTMAS!
I love everything about it, I love shopping for the gifts, wrapping them and especially watching people open them.
It is Tuesday, December 11th and I have officially bought every gift for everyone. I am most excited about the gift I bought my dad and a matching gift I bought for Ryan and Holden. I hope they love them!
This week I am working on neighbor/friend gifts and putting together the gifts for my Beehives. And this weekend after hounding Ryan for two weeks he is finally taking me to look at the lights downtown on Friday night. We are meeting our friends Scott and Cassie (who just moved here to go to grad school with Ryan) down to the Bellagio and the Ethel M. Chocolate Factory. I am excited!
Here are a few of my favorite Christmas items in my house:
My Christmas Tree - I am very particular about the Christmas tree. My children will have their very own tree to put all their special decorations on, just so they don't mess mine up. I was pretty sick the week I put it up so it only has about half the ornaments I normally do but I still love it
My favorite nativities
My Snoopy Countdown
I am counting down the days until I am off of work for the holidays, I have 10 days from today and then Christmas officially starts for me. We have Christmas Eve with Ryan's parents, Christmas night with my parents and we leave Thursday for San Diego for 4 days with my family. Should be a great holiday season.
In other news, my lovely husband decided to do no shave November. He took it very literally he didn't shave his neck or even cut his hair. This picture is what I call Gross Ryan. I was not and am not a fan. The kisses were few and far between at our house until November 30th when he shaved it off. Then it was celebration night :)))
I have now been on my blood thinner shots for a little over 2 weeks, they aren't horrible but they aren't fun. The actual needle is small and doesn't hurt but the medicine stings the minute it goes in and for about 10 minutes after. Ryan laughs at me as I walk around the house right after rubbing my belly saying "It Stings!!" I have about 26 weeks left to go!
We also went to the doctor last week for our big ultrasound where they look at all your babies organs. Our baby has a strong heart at 147 beats with 4 chamber's and good blood flow, a good looking brain and all the rest of his organs. His arms are measuring 2 weeks bigger so the doctor says he is going to take after his dad with long arms. His head and belly are measuring a week bigger. Since they have to switch me to a different blood thinner before I deliver in order to get a epidural I will most likely be induced, doctor thinks around 38 weeks before baby gets to big. That works for me that means we are a little over half way there!!
This weekend we are moving the bed from our guest room into our office and rearranging the office to be able to start work on the nursery in the next couple of weeks. I am a planner and I need it all done and everything ready with at least two months to spare just in case I needed to go on bed rest or something. I am definitely in nesting mode around our house.
I hope everyone is excited about the Christmas Season and are able to spend it with your loved ones. This is the time where I am constantly happy, I love how nice people are to each other and I love doing random acts of kindness for strangers. Makes me remember what this season is truly about.
