December

Eddie's Birthday

This month has been a whirlwind. Eddie celebrated his birthday at the beginning of the month and enjoyed every minute of it. He didn't really understand what was going on when people called him and sang to him during the day, but that night, after everyone sang to him and he blew out his candles and opened his presents, he was really into the birthday thing. We haven't been able to get him to stop singing Happy Birthday since! I think the funniest part is that every time he sees a candle lit, he just HAS to sing Happy Birthday and blow out the candle!

Christmas

Christmas was also quite an experience this year. We were actually able to really enjoy an extra long holiday because Kyle's family celebrated on Sunday instead of Christmas Eve like we have in the past. I think we all enjoyed the day, especially in the crazy snow. What made the week even better was having so much snow that Kyle couldn't go to work up until the day after Christmas. I loved that he was able to be home during the snow and we could enjoy being together as a family and helping others. On Saturday before Christmas, the snow was really deep and it was blizzarding outside really badly. We came home from my parent's house and there was a neighbor of ours out walking with her shopping cart trying to pull it through the snow to the grocery store. We offered her a ride to the store because she had to go that night or she wouldn't have food for the week. We sat at the Starbucks and had hot chocolate while she did her shopping and then took her home afterwards. We also had our own trials with the snow and Cavan and Casey had to help us a few times get out of the snow, but Kyle still had the opportunity to help a co-worker go Christmas shopping because he didn't have a vehicle that could get through the snow. It was also nice that Kyle was able to drive me places and I didn't have to try to drive myself and hope I didn't get stuck because I just know that I would have if I had to drive on my own!! (Can you imagine - me at 37 weeks pregnant, trying to dig my way out of the snow and put chains on the truck by myself? I don't think so!!)

Christmas Day was a nice relaxing day for our family. We woke up and got to see what Santa brought our family. Celeste baked in her new Easy Bake Oven and Eddie played with his cars all morning. We had a light breakfast and got ready to go to Nana and Papa's house. We had brunch at Nana and Papa's and opened presents there. Grandma came to Nana and Papa's house and then came to our house with us to see what Santa brought. We took naps after Grandma left and then had dinner over at Nana and Papa's house again. It's nice being close to our family, so we don't have to travel far and we can go home when we need to for whatever purpose we have! The new year is now coming and with that, a new baby will come as well. We are all excited for that, but what a flurry of excitement this month has been for our family!