Merry Christmas Everyone!

We are getting closer to Christmas and I still have so much to do. I don't have presents for everyone yet and the weather has been so yucky that I haven't the energy to drag both boys and the baby inside me out in it. It'll all get done I am sure. This Saturday I plan on making the stollen if I can find the energy. I don't know if I will get anything else made, but we will see.

The Christmas production went very well this year. Both boys were able to watch it and they were very good during the performance. I was able to sit on a stool for the duration of the show which made things much better for me. I don't think that I could stand for an hour and a half. Now we are off for the rest of the year. That is a nice rest for us.

The boys are very excited about Christmas, of course. We try our very best to tell them that it is Jesus' birthday which they pretty much understand. When we ask them whose birthday it is today they say Jesus. We also have 3 family birthdays in the week before Christmas which makes it a little confusing for them.

We hope that you all have a very Merry Christmas! I will get the cards in the mail as soon as the pictures come back from the printer. I wish that I could have printed the picture above, but I guess that it was a little to blurry because they recommended that it not be printed. I did pick a couple of other cute ones though. It is more difficult to get good pictures because the boys want to goof around or one will be smiling and the other is not and so on.

Where has December Gone?

I can't believe that next week will be the middle of the month. This starts the week of birthdays. Happy birthday McCayla, Mike, and Dad. We have been very busy here shopping, sewing and preparing for the church Christmas production. That is this weekend starting tomorrow night and going through Sunday night. Anyone in town is invited to come and celebrate the Saviours birth with us. It starts at 7:00pm each night at First Baptist Church of Maryville, IL. We have been having our dress rehearsals last night and tonight. It has been a crazy week. I had a doctors appt. today and we are now 33 weeks along only 7 more to go. I asked if it was okay to travel on Christmas and she said yes because I do not have a history of delivering early. But she did say to find the nearest hospital just in case. I hope I don't need it but Pam that is where you come in handy. In fact, my doctor will be going on a cruise two weeks before my baby comes so she might not deliver anyway if I am early. We might be induced a week early again if the baby has not come on its own due to the history of big babies. We'll see what happens. I have to go for now and get ready for the dress rehearsal tonight.

Thanksgiving Has Come and Gone

We had a great time this past week visiting with family and enjoying the Thanksgiving holiday. We even went to see Grandpa Snider and Grandma Joyce twice. Last Saturday was the first visit and we also met Pam, Bryan, McCayla, and Zach while we were there. Here is a picture of all the kids with their Great Grandpa (he is 94 now). Garrett and Zach are sitting on Grandpa's lap and Cameron and McCayla are sitting in front. Grandma Joyce always has toys on hand to hand out for the kids so they loved going over there.




On Tuesday night my parents came in to visit us this year. That is a big switch. It was such a blessing for us not to need to travel on Thanksgiving. We had the best of both worlds. Mike's Mom and Dad hosted and cooked for Thanksgiving and my parents were able to come down and join us. Mike and I are usually the ones who end up going up to my parent's for Thanksgiving and Mike's parents are usually alone since he is an only child. That is just the way it works out. My brother and sister and her family were not able to come down because of work schedules so that was the sacrifice for my parents coming here. We will probably go up there for Christmas though so it will all work out in the end. That is if we can travel when I am 35 weeks pregnant. I haven't had any earlybirds yet. The boys both wanted to stay in my belly as long as they could.

We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!