Traditions...

December 14th,

Michael and I joined his parents for breakfast at the Walnut Room. Michael and his family have been doing this tradition for many years! After breakfast we did a little shopping, and of course stopped in the FAO Schwarz area. We purchased Finly a floor activity set and a new bunny (Michael and I both had bunnies as a child that were our "favorites"). Finly's grandparents purchased him a Teddy Bear that will still be bigger than him/her at 5!

December 20th,

We celebrated another tradition with the Janzen family today. We went to the Goodman Theater to see A Christmas Carol, and then headed to Lawry's for dinner. We had a wonderful time (as always). We played a little trivia on the way down, did a Christmas Mad Lib, and a word search. I really made the drive to the city go pretty quick. It was pretty cold and started to snow while we there, but made it feel more like Christmas.

Christmas Cards

Well, as usual the girls were NOT happy with me. This was the best I could do. I think if I took many more pictures, one of them would've gone for a limb.

Baby Shower #2

Grammy Janzen and Aunt Gwen threw a shower for Finly. We had a wonderful time, and got to see a lot of family we haven't in a while. Michael's cousin Cyndi even came in from California. We got a lot of presents, and the nursery is almost complete. We will post pictures as soon as we're done. I've been busy writing out my thank you cards.

The top pictures is of the blanket that Michael's 90 year old grandmother made for Finly!

Baby Shower

We had our first family baby shower on Sunday, November 9th. Finly received a lot of very nice gifts, the nursery is really starting to come together. We have our second family shower on Saturday, November 15th.

Here's a belly shot to hold you ladies over for a while. ;) Yep, that's me with a belly!

Double digits!!!

We're down to 94 days! I can't believe we're in double digits now. We went to the doctor on Tuesday for a checkup. I got a flu shot, my arm is still red. Finly's heartbeat was great. I'm measuring on target for weight and size. I also had my glucose test, that was gross! We got the results back today, and I'm fine. We did find out that I have a mild case of anemia, but we knew that was a possibility.

We've got wood!

The top photo is from the previous owners, the bottom one is with a few changes we've made (and we've already made a few more since this photo was taken). We had the berber carpet removed and had the cherry wood floors installed. We LOVE it! The girls are still getting used to having wood floors again.

End of an Era...for now!

I'm no longer a Jeep girl! :( We traded in the Wrangler for a Honda CR-V. The guys at Honda were happy to finally convert me after all these years, but I'm still a Jeep girl at heart. Everyone agrees that it's odd seeing my plate on a different black SUV. The CR-V is nice, it's just not "me". Michael is very pleased with the CR-V, especially the gas mileage (compared to the Jeep).