Doing things a little different this year....

September 11, 2009

As you can tell, things have definitely changed around our house in the last several weeks. We are *finally* expecting our much awaited miracle baby! We did it all on our own (With God's wonderful and amazing help of course), without any treatments or medical intervention. It was totally unexpected at the time, and a wonderful surprise. We had a scare this past weekend, but things seem to be looking up now, and our ultrasound of our beautiful 7 week old baby is above. Thank you all so much for your prayers these last couple of years. It's been a crazy but wonderful ride.

With this awesome new addition, comes some change for Christmas and the holiday's around here. I'm going to cut-back on how much decorating I do this year, because I'm not going to be able to throw around tubs and trees like I normally do. Ryan is more than willing to do box movign and lifting, but I just don't think I'll have the energy for that many trees. But, I plan on spending that time working on other fun easy-to-handle stuff around here and enjoying being with family.

I am most definitely going to do a Baby tree though, and will still do our main "Close Knit Family" tree. Everything else is still up in the air. We'll just have to see! I couldn't be happier though, to be decorating less for such a wonderful reason. A lot of family and friends have suggested in my free-time on the weekends when I can't do much outside/a lot of stuff inside, to scrapbook. I will probably become well-aquainted with my scrapbooking supplies again over the next several months.

Another fun thing I am planning on doing is my Christmas dollhouse. It's awesome because I can add-to it without any fear of "doing too much"... I can sit at the bar and work on it a little at a time without worry! I will probably start buying new things to add to it soon, and get Ryan to get it out of the closet for me over the next month or two.