Oh my boot fetish...of course they ended up on my list to Santa. :)
I do love Christmas. Alan and I will celebrate our first Christmas together this year...EVER...and we are married....and expecting a baby. I guess it looks a little awkward once you get it down on paper but feels so easy/natural like we have been doing this for years! I have always had a little fake tree I grabbed from some yard sale years ago in the house. It is still there. Same ornaments, just some new maroon ribbon. However, we did purchase a real tree. Since there is little room in the house as it is, the new/real tree is out on the porch. We bought new lights, decor for the fence, the door and the wagon by the door. I even painted a sign for the barn which I think I will leave up all year. It reads "Love was born in a stable." I just love that. I love stables because most of my favorite critters live in there (minus the dang raccoons but since this is a cheery chrsitmas entry I will not go off on how I despise those creatures). AND, every day when I walk out to see my favorite furry steed, I read that sign and remember my Savior and it makes me smile.
I cannot wait to celebrate with my family and my new family! And speaking of the in-laws, thanks to their help and the help of Trayla (Travis and Kayla) and Blade (Blaine and Wade), Alan and I get the pleasure of helping to adopt a needy family. With the help of all of these folks, we are really going to be able to spoil these 4 kids and their mother this Christmas. What a blessing to be able to do this for others.
In other news, I'm plugging along the trail of baby percolating. Alan talks to him and gets him all fired up every evening, then drifts all to sleep while I lay there with a tiny ninja in my belly. I have had one of the easiest pregnancies I do believe (according to others who have compared and that I have heard of) however, I am really beginning to feel preggo. Shortness of breath, urination every 5 minutes, no sleep, feeling heavy, fat and slow, and just general discomfort as a human. HOWEVER, I know this will all be worth the wait and worry and discomfort very soon. I feel so blessed to be fat, slow and uncomfortable! It is hard to believe that this time next year we will be celebrating Christmas with another member of the family. The excitement overwhelms me almost as much as my gratitude to God for giving me this gift.
So until next time, I leave you with what I hope to be our first Chrsitmas card...if I ever get the thing mailed.
XoXO
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