Belated Christmas Greeting

I am soooooo late mailing our Christmas cards. Enjoy this video until you get yours in the mail. It aired on News Channel 11 (Dean's place of business) at least a couple of times. Didn't Lola do a great job?!!!!

The little boy Fetus @ 24 weeks, 5 days

Here are new ultrasound pictures from today. The fetus weighs in at 2 pounds, 1 ounce. That's normal. Below is a hiney shot.

Legs and umbilical cord.

3D shots of his face!!!

He and his dad look about the same when they are sleeping.

It was pretty awesome that they gave us a CD with the pictures on it. I love them!

Oh the wonderful weekend......

This might be a long post! I have this whole weekend off, and we took a lot of pictures today.
This is a stocking that I am pretty sure my Aunt Gay made for me for my first Christmas. It is very detailed, and now it's vintage. After all, I am 27 now!

Our "mantle" (entertainment center.)

My beloved white tree. This year, I didn't do colored lights or bright multicolored ornaments, because Dean said it looked like a gay pride float. I did all red and green lights and ornaments, and he said it was the best looking tree he had ever seen. Woohoo!

Lola's pink "twee."

Lola's favorite new pair of shoes.

This morning she found an old gift card and was playing with it in her room. She asked Dean to come in there, and she had set up her kitchen facing the door, and had all the play food out. She asked him to order, and then told him to pay.

She took the gift card and swiped it down her kitchen, like the picture below. Then she said "Thanks, see you soon!"

Lola's Drive-In, how may I help you?!!!!

TWINKIES!

Lola and I in our matching outfits. I love Old Navy!

Dean and I went to his work Christmas party tonight, and when I changed clothes she said "oh mom, we're not twinkies anymore!"

Dean's party was a lot of fun. They get to spin a wheel for their Christmas bonus, which is awesome. At the hospital we get a choice of a ham or turkey. :) There was snow on the ground this morning, but by the time we went outside it was pretty much melted. It wasn't much but it was pretty to look at.

That's all for now. Thanks for reading.

Christmas Can't Be Very Far Away!

Most of you know that I am a Christmas freak. I love putting up my decorations as early as possible, I love Christmas music, Christmas colors, Christmas cookies, etc........ I started putting up my tree mid-November, and I am almost done with it. It has taken me a lot longer than usual, but I am almost done. When I get done, I will post a picture of it. For now I am going to post some pictures of years past.

Also, I am going to share some of my favorite Christmas memories. One of the best was when I was in First grade and I got a huge Strawberry Shortcake house from Santa. Another good one is when my brother had his G.I. Joes repelling from the tree, even after he had gotten in trouble several times, and my mom took the tree down to teach him a lesson. He could have electrocuted himself!

Enjoy the pics!

Christmas 2005, family photo.

First year decorating my white tree!

Christmas 2006 professional pictures.

Christmas 2006 - Lola's gingerbread house and mini tree.

2005, the best present I ever received!

2005, looking at the tree.

Lola Can Dress Herself

The last 2 weeks Lola has started changing her clothes compulsively. She has been able to partially dress herself for a few months, but she can now do it all on her own. It was cute for awhile, but now she has at least twice the amount of laundry because she will change 6-7 times a day, if you let her. She will wake up and put on an outfit and shoes before we even know that she is awake. Usually it is an outfit from the bin in her closet of things she has outgrown. That is usually pretty funny.

We went to Allen for Thanksgiving. It wasn't really that eventful of a trip, except that we bought a new vehicle. I'll post pictures of it soon. I lost our camera at the wedding, so we use the video camera right now for pictures. We also drove through torrential downpours of snow on the way home and had to stop and stay in a motel.

I had another ultrasound on Monday and it is for sure a boy. I will have an ultrasound every 4 weeks because of my history of Gestational diabetes. Everything looks great right now. They worry about the baby's size with Gestational diabetes, but Lola was normal size at exactly 40 weeks, 1 day - 7 pounds, 10 ounces. It is normal for subsequent babies to be larger than the first, and my mom had two - 9 pounders after me, without diabetes. I say that to say that IF I have an 8 or 9 pound baby, it doesn't mean that I haven't been taking care of myself. I definately am. Things may go differently this time, because I am seeing completely different doctors, and delivering at a different hospital. They are aware of the complications that Lola had at birth, and are willing to do everything possible to ensure that nothing with my delivery will cause this baby to be stuck in NICU for a week. I work with my doctors, so I am a lot more comfortable with them than I was with my previous OB.

Here are more pictures of Lola from the wedding, courtesy of Hollie and Stephen's awesome camera and mad photography skills. Enjoy!

Weekend Events

This past weekend we were in Allen for my dad's wedding. Lola was the flower girl. She had curlers in her hair that morning and we covered them with a shower cap. In the picture above she is apparently raiding Kelli-Mom's fridge.

Lola and Uncle Kyle.

Thinking about doing her nails.

"Another picture of me in this shower cap, seriously?!!!!"

Here's all 3 of us dressed up. Lola's beauty routine paid off, she looked really, really, really adorable. She stood for a couple of minutes at the front with Hillary and I, and then she would go back and forth between us and her Kelli-Mom. She was dangerously close to a pillar with a candle on it, so we spent half the ceremony grimacing because we were sure it was going to tip over and light the church on fire. It was pretty funny. Lola ran around at the reception the entire time, non-stop. She danced and met some of her 3rd and 4th cousins for the first time. Dean and I had a great time seeing our friends as well, and some of my dad's family that we don't get to see very often. It was a fun weekend.

HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!

I have been trying to upload pictures for days. We have a really crappy internet connection. Some of the pictures won't be on here because I can't upload them. Sorry. The picture above is Lola trick-or-treating. She said "Oh, a fire hydrant! Take my picture with it!"

The rest of these are her at school. I think you can see her wings pretty well in this one.

Here she is with JoJo the clown and Dorothy & Toto. She had a great Halloween and got enough candy to last her until next year, unless Dean and I eat it all before then.

Yesterday, we went to our cousin Libby's 2nd birthday party! She has a lot of little cousins, and we all had fun. It is nice to have family nearby.

Please pray for my Aunt Myrna, my dad's sister. She is in Slaton at a care center recovering from open heart surgery.

Well, that's all. I am pretty busy this week because we are leaving town on Thursday. I may not post for about a week. But who knows, maybe I will surprise you.....