22.5 Weeks

Here's some belly pics. I am starting to actually look pregnant!

Christmas Cards

While I was thinking of this, we have a lot of Christmas cards that are yet to be sent out. We can't seem to get it all together. First, we ran out of stamps, then when we got the stamps, we lost the pictures but we are thinking of you!!!

Christmas Vacation

It is sad to say, but our Christmas break is pretty much up. Jeffrey started practice today, but the break was well worth it. We started out at a tournament in Douglas. J rode the bus and I drove up behind him after school. Our teams went 4 and 2. Craig and Lennie came up and watched the last few games. We took off Saturday night to head to Alliance. We got there late only to get up early and take off to Norfolk. The plan was to stop in Hartington at my aunt and uncles right away, but weather prohibited us from doing that. They live in the country and the wind and snow had blocked the way to get into their houses. We kept trucking and got to Norfolk to visit my Grandma. We took her out to eat and went shopping that evening. The next morning we opened presents with her and then headed to Lincoln. In Lincoln, we got to see a bunch of my cousins. It was fun because there were a bunch that Jeffrey hadn't met yet. From there we went into Omaha and visited another aunt and uncles house where another bunch of my cousins dropped by to visit. This whole trip was really exciting because it had been 10 or so years since I had seen a lot of them. Thank you so much to my aunt and uncles for opening up their homes to us and coming to see us, and thanks to my cousins for coming out in the cold and bad roads to have a visit.
We left Omaha about 9pm. It made for a very late trip home. We got back to Alliance about 4 in the morning and my dad had to be at work at 6!! Needless to say, he was ready for a nap when he got off work.
We went to Torrington Christmas day and got to visit Jeffrey's Aunt Lois and Aunt Lucille. It was a really nice time and enjoyable to see them. Then we went onto Lingle and met up with Criag, Lennie, Josh, Kara, Brecken, Joel, Annie, Karlee, Trevor, and Hailey. As always, it was great to see them all and we had an enjoyable time. We then took off to Cheyenne to do some after Christmas shopping and have Christmas over at Brady and Stacey's with Parker, Beverly, David, and Kevin. It seems that visits with everyone seem too infrequent. We don't have many pictures, but will post some when we get them uploaded!

AND the big news IS......

ITS A GIRL!!!! Yay!!! I have to admit we would have been just as excited had they said boy, but its so fun to know!!! We found out last Thursday but then took off to Christmas and decided to announce it in person to our parents before announcing it on here. We got to of course have an ultrasound. That is so my favorite thing to do. We get to see her playing around and kicking and opening and closing her mouth. She had the hiccups so we watched that, it was so cute!!! And so the shopping begins.....

Christmas Dance Recital

So tonight was my first dance recital. Jeffrey had an away game so was unable to come :( But I missed his game too so I can't complain much! :) Well, one of my friends was online and I got to talking to her and lost track of time, when I noticed the time, I hopped off the couch and took off to my car. I got about halfway to the recital and realized that I hadn't switched from my slippers into my shoes! Unfortunately, I was running too late to go back! Luckily my pants were brown and somewhat matched the slippers so it worked out okay. They weren't the easiest to run around in, but who knows, maybe I started a new fashion statement!!!

You know its been too long since you made a post when.....

the address isn't in your recently viewed websites! I had to go to Kara's blog in order to get to mine! Well, I could have typed it in, but that takes too long!
Jeffrey started his basketball season, I guess it been a while now. It keeps him very busy and NEVER home, but he loves it, so of course so do I. :) We had games Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of last week and games Monday, Tuesday and a tournament this weekend. I try to go to a lot of the games, but I am beginning to realize that sitting in the stands for that many games not only hurts my bum but also hurts my back! We are looking at getting those fancy stadium seats.
We just got around to putting up the Christmas tree (as most of you know, Jeffrey likes to wait until AFTER his birthday!!) I got him convinced to do it earlier, then our house wasn't clean enough to get it up! We are in the process of painting the back bedroom and all of that furniture is in our dining room, therefore making our living room the dumping grounds for EVERYTHING!! I have to admit, with everything J has to do, he has been working really hard at getting everything around the house done too. I just wish I could help a little bit more. But the room looks FABULOUS so far! The next room we attack is the baby's room--YAY!