Happy New Year!

Since it's New Year's Eve and since Ashton is currently out walking Dusty, I decided that I would update the blog.

Our Christmas was pretty uneventful, which suited us just fine. We went up to Ashton's mom's house for Christmas Eve and spent some time with her as well as Nate and Anjanette. We enjoyed the time just visiting, eating, and opening presents. Christmas Day we stayed at home enjoying the sunshine and warmth (yeah we didn't get any snow for Christmas although we got some yesterday and it has actually stayed). We played lots of games and had fun.

Ashton has actually had this week off from work and it's been great! I've enjoyed having him around. We haven't done a whole lot, although we got to visit with some friends that we don't get to see often, but it's been great to just relax and spend some time together. We won't have this opportunity again for a while so we've taken advantage of it. Hopefully, it won't take us too long to get back into the daily routine next week when Ashton has to go back to work.

It's hard to believe that in about a month and a half, our family will have a new addition. We've been preparing for it, but my mind has just recently been realizing how soon it will be. The time will either go fast or slow, but it'll go and, hopefully, I'll be ready when it happens. The baby is getting me used to waking up in the middle of the night with his kicking so that's at least something I guess.

Of course, you can't get to hours before the new year begins without thinking over the past year. This year has brought with it a lot of changes for us. All of them good and a few of them were pretty big changes. Next year will bring some more changes and we're pretty excited about that. There will of course be ups and downs, but it should prove to be an interesting year I think.

Christmas Stuff

This past weekend, we got our Christmas tree and decorations out of storage so that our apartment could look more festive, although we still have yet to get snow. For some reason, I really want it to snow this year. Not some major amount of snow, but a little would be nice. Enough to make it feel winter and like I'm actually getting closer to having this baby. Even if the outside doesn't look like it's getting to be Christmas time, our apartment does!

I was worried that we wouldn't have any space for our tree, but I misjudged how big our tree really is. The only thing I really had to move was a plant and it fits so nicely. I did have to move a picture frame so that I could put our Nativity scene up, but that wasn't hard. I thought to fit the tree in that I'd have to do some major rearranging. So I was happily wrong. Our tree is all decorated now and even has a present under it.

I think Ashton dreads the present part of Christmas. He's fine with buying gifts and receiving gifts. The only problem is that while I love surprises, I do not like waiting for them. So, I end up bugging him endlessly about what he's gotten me even before the present is sitting under the tree. It doesn't help that I "made the mistake" of guessing what some of my presents were, and I happened to guess correctly. So now he thinks I'm too good at guessing. As punishment, I get no hints and I'm not allowed to shake presents for more than a couple minutes. On the other hand, I get so excited about what I've gotten him that usually I'm bugging him to shake his presents and guess. It's also become a sort of tradition for me to make him open one of his presents a week early because I can't wait anymore. I might try to hold out this year, but we'll see how that works out.