Wednesday, December 28, 2011

The Aftermath of Christmas...

Hey Everyone!! I hope that you all had a great Christmas!! Mine was pretty busy...but I'm kinda sad its all over. I feel like you wait so long for the one day to get here...then the day flies by and is sadly over.

We started off our Christmas celebrations by heading to MiL's house on Christmas Eve. Had some apps, opened gifts and headed home. On Christmas morning my sisters and mom came over and we cooked a big breakfast, ate and proceeded to open all of our gifts. I got some pretty awesome things...everyone went way overboard, which made me feel crappy because we can't afford to spend as much as they did. I then helped my mom to cook Christmas dinner and her bf later joined us. We eat dinner with my family fairly early in the day, so everyone headed out around 7ish. Around 8ish we packed up and headed to Mike's family's Christmas dinner. We arrived in time for dessert...which is honestly all I could fit anyways and spent a long time just hanging out and catching up.

On Boxing Day I decided that I NEEDED to head to Thyme maternity to check out the sales and see if the dress I want for Mike's cousin's wedding was on sale. I was super happy to find out that it was! I didn't feel like braving any other stores so I decided to go home and head out to the mall the next day. I've spent the majority of the last two days shopping...and I'm tired out lol. I picked up some pretty good deals...got my dress for the wedding, shoes to go with the dress that were like 75% off...a couple of shirts, a new watch (a Christmas present from the hubby) that was on sale....so overall didn't do too bad. I also had the joy of going for my glucose tolerance test this morning...yuck. The stuff you have to drink is just gross...and it made the little guy super wiggly shortly after drinking it. Hopefully the results will come back in the next few days and everything will have gone well...

Anyways...I'm off to dinner, so I will update again soon!

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Nesting!? Possibly...

I've always heard that pregnant women go through a nesting stage at some point in their pregnancy and I think I've begun mine....

Next week I'm holding a Christmas party with some of my closest friends here at my house. Like most people...I want a clean house for when everyone comes over, for those of you that know me...cleaning is what I dread the most! Well last night not only did I start cleaning for next weekend but I also made myself a list (I Know what!?!) and I'm actually sticking to my plan. Last night I cleaned all of the bathrooms, today on the list was vacuuming and mopping the floors and tomorrow my plans are to dust and do laundry. I got all of the downstairs vacuumed and mopped and I cleaned up the bedroom and gathered all of the laundry for tomorrow. Tomorrow I will vacuum the upstairs and mop the floors up there, as well as dust everything downstairs and finish my Christmas shopping.

My second sign that I'm possibly nesting is that the baby's room is driving me crazy. Right now it's pretty much empty of baby stuff and filled with random boxes that we just never moved or put away after moving. Everytime I walk into the baby's room lately I become really bothered. I know that things will get moved once the basement is completed (which should be sometime this week) but I can't wait! I've also decided how I want to decorate the room...I want Mike to put up chair rail around the room, so that I can paint it chocolate brown on the bottom and pale blue on top...hang up the airplane decals once I frame them and buy wooden letter that spell out the baby's name for above the crib. I can't wait to get the room done :) I think it will really pull things together...even though I have no furniture for the room yet.

Anyways...I'm looking forward to my Christmas party next weekend :) I can't believe that Christmas is coming up so quickly! I hope that everyone is enjoying this time and that everyone is doing well...until next time!