Well, the time has come. We finally got the gutts to take an intentional photograph of what is soon to be a new addition to the family. Surprised? Well, if you haven't seen me in person lately, you should be! And yes, Dan & I were quite surprised too! A couple months after we brought Danny J. home from the hospital, I noticed how much more tired I was waking up in the middle of the night with him than I was when Kaelah was a newborn. I kept asking myself, is there really that big of a difference between ages 26 & 28? I didn't think anything of my period coming late b/c both Dan & I were complaining of nausea. Eventually I went to our family practice doctor & said, "I'm either pregnant or something is wrong with me that I want you to fix!" We ran the blood work & called the fertility specialist after he told me the rapid test came back VERY pink. From then we did the same thing we had done before. Held our breath & took LOTS of medi...
The drive to church on Christmas Eve was gorgeous, helped by snow and that we were heading out for a 10am meeting instead of the usual 9am one. (: Since a visiting grandma took a video of the entire song, I thought it was ok to sneak a quick photo of my children singing Away in the Manger. After church D and M were very excited about the pies from Sprouts they bought with their own money and had to pose with them in front of the Christmas tree.
Somehow my parents got away with not having any nice pictures taken of them when they came over for a fancy dinner and to spend the afternoon and evening with us. My mother did a wonderful job with buying the children presents. I think she tried extra hard since she knew Hubby and I told everyone their Disney cruise was their Christmas present. Thank you, Mom!
The children had a slumber party on our bedroom floor on Christmas Eve and miraculously slept well and didn't wake us up to see their stocking Santa had stuffed until 7am. Lucky us!
My favorite photos -- nice work, Santa.
And the cousins mailed great stuff out from Utah that brought lots of smiles Christmas morning as well.
Meigo came with us to drive around seeing Christmas lights that night. I loved this picture of N and the dog enjoying the family time together.
I have to say N and I mastered GF/DF cut out sugar cookies and GF/DF peanut butter blossoms this Christmas! Next year we want to conquer allergy friendly gingerbread.
The boys put together the puzzle Hubby's grandma mailed to us. She is so good at remembering us. We felt loved and relaxed and grateful for the gift of our Savior this Christmas.
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