A Festive Party!

We have amazing friends! A bunch of them came over yesterday and we had a PARTY! We built gingerbread houses, played games, had a funny white elephant party and hung out! What a great time!

Here are the pictures from our day...

16 Gingerbread houses- baked, built, and ready for the decorators to arrive

Anxiously awaiting for everyone to arrive

Alyssa and Tanya

Erin and Kara

Lynn

Cute Kaity! :)

Rachel getting into it!

Brian and Carla's masterpiece

Cameron having a good time!

Playing games

Cameron and Brenda catching a quick nap

Oh the socks!

....and Brett was voted "Best Socks" winner- nice red stockings!

SOME of the gang

Cody and Tyler's house- voted "Best Gingerbread House"- I think it should have been "craziest gingerbread house"- nice work guys! :)

Alyssa and Tanya's sweet creation (they were the runner ups)

I loved Kaity's house- it even has a tractor in the front yard! :)

Rachel's sweet cabin!

Erin and Kara's house

Court and Lynn's house

More of Kaity's house

More of Cody and Tyler's "Redneck House"

Tanya was lucky enough to open a Salvation Army bell ringer costume! :)

Leah was the lucky recipient of a College Math- Statistics book and a MONKEY!

Anxiously awaiting their turns to steal or pick a gift!

Funniest gift- a bird feeder where the birds fly up the nose to get their feed- haha- luck you, Alyssa! :)

Brenda got a baseball frog!

The back of Leah's colorful creation!

More of Leah's house

Bria's bright house

Brooke's fun red house

Michael's masterpiece in progress...

Working hard to get it just right....

and now he completed it! :)

This was the back of Michael's house

And the side.

This was Bryce and Brenda's house- convenient that they were both "BF's"

The side of Bryce and Brenda's House

and the front

and the other side of B & B's house

We had a blast!

A good day.

What a day. A good day. A kind of busy, kind of lazy day.  I like days, like today.

It all started with a rough night last night.  I was nervous.  Really nervous.  My doctors appointment was today and I was dreading it...today's appointment was "lab work and shots and yucky stuff to drink" day.  I don't know why I have become such a worry wart during this pregnancy but my gracious- it really did not turn out to be that horrible.  All the worrying for no reason.  Oh well.

My Sister got into town yesterday....we are already busy with tons of projects! The first project was to make the board for Hannah's fun flowers (all supplied by Aunt Brenda) :) and of course you get the two of us going on a project and what do you get?? Well, let's see- an hour in Joann Fabrics trying to decide on a fabric and ribbon, a car ride home thinking about how we would make it all look right, and then we went to town...hello staple gun- you are our friend! :)

 

We of course got a little bit tired and a lot silly but we ended with a result that we were happy with.

 

There are so many projects left to be finished but I can hardly keep my eyes open for another minute. 

What a day.  What a good day.

Hmmm...

So, it has been awhile since I last posted.  I think I have been so uninspired since I haven't had my camera to take pictures with and my words alone seem pretty boring!  I'm suppose to receive my new camera by next week sometime...yay...I can hardly wait!

Things have been holding about the same here.  Hannah is growing bigger by the day but I absolutely love the feeling of her somersaulting, kicking, hiccuping, and just making her presence known.  We are now entering our third trimester- wow! Where does the time go?  The nursery is coming together and looking so pink, elegant, and ready!

We spent a very nice Thanksgiving with a lot of family.  Always fun to spend so much time with those that you love so much! We had dinner at my aunt and uncle's with a random hodge-podge of relatives, and it was absolutely lovely...snow and all! :)  The rest of that weekend was spent downtown watching the parade, shopping, spending more time at Mom and Dad's than at home, and just being lazy.  It was a weekend to be VERY thankful for!!

Last weekend my sweet sister had the big Husky Invitational Swim Meet, in Federal Way.  I enjoyed spending Friday and Saturday watching her swim and breaking her own personal records...she was amazing! Michael got to go over the mountains with Neil, Trevor, and Bryce to watch the Apple Cup in the freezing (literally) Martin Stadium in Pullman.  The Huskies managed to pull out a huge win for the boys to see and led the Huskies to finish third in the PAC-10 which is amazing seeing as how we finished in last place with zero wins, two years ago...go DAWGS! :) 

Brenda comes home for Christmas break on Monday.  Excited to spend quality sister time with her!  We are also very fortunate to get some special meeting company for the night- we are very much looking forward that as well.  On Tuesday, I have a doctor appointment and hoping that all is well there- happy that my sister can go with me, as there will be a lot of blood draws, shots, etc.-yuck!

This is a random post and quite lame without pictures but wanted to put up a quick update.  Now it's off to fix a cup of hot cider and snuggle by the fire!