Christmas Break 2009

Christmas break was wonderful this year! We were able to see ALL of our immediate family and enjoy several days (11 days to be exact) at "home." We started off the holiday season celebrating Christmas with my brother and his family! We have not seen them since our vacation to Destin in June! So it was a much overdue visit! It was fun to see all of them and see how much the kids have grown and changed. I love these kiddos! Here are a few snapshots from our Christmas with them.

Passing out the presents

Carter checking out his new Pj's

Summer sporting her new necklace

Tilly hanging out with Uncle Cory.
Carter helping Uncle Cory open up his gifts

Papa and Carter playing
These two are quite the pairJuie hanging out with Tilly and Carter

On Christmas eve we headed to the very southern end of the state to spend some time with Cory's twin brother and his family at their house. Mady, our niece, was definitely the life of the party and it was fun to see her open all her fun presents! She is a hoot.

Cody and Jessica's den with all the gifts from Santa.

Mady with her doll carrier

Uncle Cory playing with Mady at her new table and chairs

The clan. Mady LOVES to play with people's hair. Lincoln and his future cousin due to arrive in June
After the Christmas festivities were over, Cory headed home to work a couple of days and I spent the days with my parents in Bryant. It was very nice, this late in the pregnancy, to have a chauffeur, cook, maid and shopping friend (thanks mom!). I knew if I spent my break at home then I would not rest and I really needed to rest after the semeste that I had so...staying in Bryant was a special treat.

We enjoyed New Year's Eve with several of our Bryant friends and had a great time! I even stayed up till midnight but we did head home about 12:08 so I could go to bed. Ha! We ended the break with an AMAZING baby shower which I will post about next!

And this is what we came home too ....

Since this has fallen on Sunday, we have had four straight snow days out of school! I am not complaining TOO much; however, we only have 5 snow days built into the calendar and it looks like we will end up using all five this week! More snow days later on this winter will mean more work days added on in June! :(

On the baby news front, I did get out yesterday to go to my 34 week doctor's appointent. Everything looks perfect thus far! Lincoln's heartbeat was strong and very loud! I didn't think he could get anymore active in there but these last 24 hours he has moved nonstop! So, needless to say, sleep was few and far between last night. I believe he is getting stir crazy from all these snow days. Cory and I finished up our "child preparation" classes and our infant CPR class. So we are starting to feel a little more prepared. I have had some time to work in the nursery this week so I am feeling a little better about that as well. I got back to the doctor two weeks from today to start my once a week visit. We should know more after that appointment about how we are looking as for a due date. Very exciting!

CEC.