Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone. We hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas and got a chance to spend time with family and friends.

Kristi and I had a great day. We spent Christmas morning opening presents with the Arc's who are in town. Santa was good to us this holiday. Kristi and I originally had a pact that we were not going to do Christmas gifts this year. That quickly turned into a 2 gift limit and then spread into an unlimited shopping spree. Kristi got a new purse, a gift certificate for a massage and some other odds and ends. I got sweaters, a blue tooth and a gift certificate for Starbucks. Sam also made out well this year. The Arc's provided lots of toys and even gave us some dinner certificates and a weekend of babysitting. Those gifts will come in handy right around spring time. Even Bailey got to take part in the fun...we hid dog treats wrapped under the tree. She was the first to "open" a present which was not the smartest idea. After the first gift, she thought every gift was for her and had a bone in it. Lesson learned for next time...we'll give her a bone in the kitchen and go back to opening presents.

The rest of the day was spent watching lots of Christmas movies (Its a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, and Christmas Vacation to name a few) and relaxing. It felt really nice to sit back and do a lot of nothing this holiday. I'm trying to bank all of my free time in anticipation of a lot of hectic sleep patterns and not much time to spend doing all of the things that i used to do.

We finished up the evening with dessert over at our friends, Lynn and Mark's house. They are great friends and we had a great time hanging out with them and their family.

Christmas went by really fast this year and actually snuck up on us. We've been so focused on Sam coming that we started to forget the days as they have passed by.

Below are some pictures that we took on Christmas day.




Well...we are down to 5 more days until Sam arrives. Just a few tasks left on my "honey do" list: put together the swing, attach the changing pad to Sam's dresser and tighten the car seat. I'm sure I'll be able to get them done this weekend. I'll go back to work on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to wrap things up, while Kristi will stay relaxed and keep her feet up, and then we'll get up bright and early on Thursday morning to go to the hospital. We are supposed to be at the hospital for 5:15 in the morning. There are 2 hrs of prep, of which some time is carved out for me to scrub in, and then Sam will be here at 7:15AM. After that...I'm not sure what happens next, although I expect controlled chaos, followed by lots of excitement. I know both Kristi and I can't wait for Sam to get here! Personally, I know that I can't wait to hold her and give her a big kiss.

Talk to you after Sam gets here...