Thanksgiving in Review

We had a great Thanksgiving spent with Chase's parents and family up in Idaho. I actually got Chase to go shopping with me on Black Friday, GASP! And we got most of our Christmas shopping done. Score!

It seemed like everything has been so busy and our minds preoccupied that I am ashamed to say we didn't even take the time to think about what we are thankful for this year. Thanks to a lesson on gratitude on Sunday we went home and talked about it.

It has been a great year, we have been blessed so much. We know that we have been watched over and taken care of. Even though we may not live in a mansion or have fancy stuff, we have everything we need, and that's enough. :)

P.S. The "blizzard" was a blizzard for about three hours, then it fizzled out. We got more snow from the storm on Sunday. Winter is here!

Hunkering Down

There is supposed to be a massive blizzard coming in this afternoon. Even though it would have been nice had it hit last night, I'm kind of excited for it.

All the schools are getting out early and campus is shutting down at 2. Weather reports are suggesting people leave work early so they can get home in time.

So living in Logan you would think everyone living here would be used to bad weather. Apparently not, or this storm is supposed to be worse than I imagine.

The prospect of being snowed in is exciting to me. I hear about winters that my parents spent up here where they couldn't see across the street for a month and had to keep a light bulb lit under their car so it didn't freeze up. Or when my brother-in-law had to literally dig out his car from a massive snow drift.

The most snow I remember was when I was about three or four and the snow was above my head. (Not that deep for a three-year-old but still, it was a big deal for me!) We had to dig a path to the dog kennel so we could feed Mickey. And the snow hills around our patio were HUGE!

So bring on the blizzard! We have food in our house, flashlights and a camp stove. So if by some very slim chance we do get snowed in and can't get anywhere, at least we'll be warm and have food! (Now just watch, because everyone's making such a big deal out of it, the storm will probably fizzle out. :))

Lost Mind

People always said you lose your mind and your memory when you were pregnant. I didn't ever really believe them, I mean, how bad could it be?

It's true.

I don't typically consider myself a ditsy person. But I am now. Never in my life have I locked my keys in the car. I've now done it three times, in the last two months. Completely forgot about ordering something at work, putting production behind for two days, big oops. (Thankfully my boss was more than understanding.) And I can't talk in coherent sentences anymore, totally lose my train of thought and why I went upstairs to get something.

In other news, we ordered some reusable diapers from ebay just to see what they would be like. We found a knock-off brand that were MUCH cheaper than what we've been finding originally. They came yesterday and I think they're kind of cute! Our baby's bottom will be cutely adorned with red, yellow, green, orange and blue diapers. Not sure if they'll work yet, but they were cheap enough we were willing to try it out. I even found a diaper sprayer for a good deal so no rinsing out dirty diapers with my bare hands! (Or rather, Chase will not have to rinse them out with his bare hands. :))

Cartoon from here.

Thinking

Random thoughts going through my head today:

I think the word "delicious" sounds funny.

Going to the doctor has turned into a fun thing. Funny how it used to absolutely terrify me. My sister was right;it's so much easier to go when you're going for someone else.

Fall is almost over. Seemed really short, but I like waking up to the furnace turning on in the morning. It's one of my favorite sounds.

Where's the best place to get a crib mattress?

Our crib shipped early! So now its home right now is under our bed until we get our stuff cleaned up. I'm antsy to set it up. But I think putting it up four months early is jumping the gun just a bit.

Chocolate milk in the morning is the best way to start the day.

Thanksgiving is coming soon! One of my favorite holidays. Once my little sister and I dressed up like indians to go to Grandma's house for Thanksgiving.

Learned today that mouse bronchioalveolar lavage fluid is really a fancy way of saying "mouse boogers." Gross.

Kohls was playing Christmas music the other night. Bothered Chase and I alot. It's not Christmas yet!

We watched "Boy in the Striped Pajamas" the other night. I've been wanting to see it for awhile. Most depressing, horrible ending movie of all time.

Just finished a book called "Left to Tell". Glad I live when and where I do. It was a really good book about the Rwandan Genocide. It proves that light and hope can always be found with faith through ANYTHING.

I'm excited about the boxes I found at the JJ Cole warehouse sale on Saturday. I've been looking around for awhile for some and these will work great!

Chase doesn't have homework tonight! :D

We need suggestions for girl names. Chase and I can only agree on Kyree. But what if she's not a Kyree when she comes?

I get to see a bunch of old friends on Sunday!

Getting Ready

Now that we FINALLY know that we're having a little girl, we couldn't resist going out and buying some of her first outfits. Seriously, I don't think I've ever seen any cuter than these.



And for those of you who've been wanting to see "bump" pictures, I let Chase take ONE. Never been a fan of them. This was at 17 weeks.



The sewing frenzy has already started, projects just make me happy. So I actually started another blog just to put the things I've been working on for documentation purposes really to remember how I did something. Go here if you want to see some of the stuff I've made for Baby. It's been fun!

Halloween

We didn't do much this year. We did get to go to a friend's party and see alot of people and catch up with them and that was fun.

Our costumes were low-key but at least we tried right?! We went as the Superman team.

And the pictures say.....