Merry Christmas!

Dining Room (old blue room)

Family Room (old pink room)

'08 mini Christmas Tree

I finally got some pictures of the family room and dining room, as well as a couple of our miniature Christmas tree this year. We had a wonderful Christmas Eve at the house, just vegging on the couch and watching movies. We ended up staying there for the next three nights. Of course, each day we had to run to our parent's houses to get cleaned up and grab new clothes, but it was so worth it just to say we were spending the night in "our" house. The upstairs will hopefully be inspected this week and if all goes according to plan, drywall will begin next week! Then about a week and a half after that, we'll officially be able to move in. What a day that shall be!

Living Room and Kitchen OH MY!

It's true!! Our house is actually starting to look like a home!! Thanks to my incredible husband and extremely gracious father-in-law, the first floor of our house is almost 100% complete! And now as they bust their butts on the second floor to get ready for drywall, I have had the opportunity to put my little final touches on the first floor. The battery in my camera unfortunately ran out last night before I could get a picture of the family and dining room, but at least I got to get a few shots of the kitchen and living room.

So we have decided to spend Christmas Eve at the house! Our first night in OUR house!! We will be blowing up the good old air mattress, setting it up in the living room and spend the night watching Christmas movies. We are both looking forward to it very much.

My how time does fly!

I can't even believe how quickly time has flown by. I mean, there's only 15 days til Christmas!! I will say that this has definitely been a different kind of holiday season for us this year with not having our own house and tree to decorate. However, thankfully my mom is pretty much just as nuts about decorating for Christmas as I am, so I had the pleasure of helping her decorate their house. I also get to enjoy the absolutely beautiful Christmas tree they got this year. Thanks mom and dad for putting up with Greg and I for this long....the end is almost near!!!

It looks like we may actually be in our house by the early weeks of January! We moved our living room furniture in this past weekend and it actually looks like someone lives there! It was like Christmas opening all the boxes and seeing all of our stuff again! The kitchen countertop will be installed next week and we will be moving furniture into the family and dining room which will make the first floor a done deal! The drywall on the second floor should be started within 2 weeks and once that's complete, we can actually move in!! Of course we will still need to paint and carpet the upstairs, but that won't keep us from getting our butts in there! :) Once the the kitchen is finished and we move some more furniture into the family and dining room, I'll take some more pics.

Well, I'm officially 3 days shy of 7 months! My next doctor's appointment is December 23rd. Just a regularly scheduled appointment, no ultrasound pics unfortunately. :(
As you can see below, my belly sure has grown quite significantly since my last pic. My appetite continues to increase, and I have a feeling so will my waistline.

Yep, those are some serious child bearing hips if I've ever seen a set!

My butt looks like the world's biggest flapjack!

Greg and I would like to say CONGRATULATIONS to our bestest buddies Nathan and Carey Fortner as they welcomed their first little bundle of joy, Bailey Grace Fortner into the world on November 29, 2008!! This little girl is about as cute as they come and we are so incredibly anxious to meet her in person. Of course, this will be after we welcome our little one, which hopefully will be a little boy so that the two of them can grow up, fall in love, get married, be extremely successful and take care of their loving parents as they travel around the world together. :) Ok, so maybe that's a little far fetched, but we can dream can't we? Anyway, Nate and Carey, we are so happy for the two of you and please give Bailey lots of hugs and kisses from her Uncle Greg and Aunt Tonya!