Lately...

For the last week, we've been unpacked and back to normal from Thanksgiving and getting ready for Christmas. Emma helped me unpack, as you can see.

We started to get our Christmas stuff out of storage and Kris is putting up lights as we speak. We've had our friends over for St. Nick night and cookie decorating. Ryan LOVED decorating the cookies. He must have sat there for almost an hour putting frosting and sprinkles on the cookies. I'm just sorry I didn't get any pictures of him doing it. I was amazed at his concentration and ability to stay with a task. He had helped me bake the cookies the day before too.

Last night, we went to a local tree farm and cut down our first family Christmas tree. We have a cheap fake from Big Lots that we have used for the past few years since we are never here for Christmas. But this year we went all out. It is a beautiful tree, which is now sitting in our living room completely bare! Tomorrow, I plan to do the lights and then have the kids help decorate on Wednesday.

As for me, the pregnancy is going well. I'm at 33 weeks now and as tired as I can be. Chasing after 2 kids is exhausting at this stage (plus keeping my pants up). I finally had Kris take another picture of me and the difference is enormous, as you can see. Kris and Ryan decided to show off their bellies too. Ryan says he has a baby girl in his belly, but he doesn't have to go to the hospital to get the baby out. Emma will be his doctor, he says. But I'm working on cleaning out the closets upstairs to move Emma. Her new room was a great junk room, in which all the junk needs to find new homes! I don't think I did too bad today and hopefully should have it empty by the end of the week.